Biscuit Lyrics

Lyric discussion by iwontsuffer 

Cover art for Biscuit lyrics by Portishead

There is a story behind this song. Here is my guess:

"I'm lost, exposed Stranger things will come your way" Its just I'm scared Got hurt along time ago I can't make myself heard no matter how hard I scream"

She is laying naked in front of a man after their sexual intercourse and she is wandering in doubts is this man gonna hurt her also like a previous man did. She is feeling vulnerable beside this man that's why the things will come his way. The man can't hear her fears. She already feels that he is gonna leave her.

"Ohh sensation Sin, slave of sensation"

This part points to that she can not deny her sensations and be the first one to escape even if she wants to.

"Full fed yet I still hunger" Torn inside Haunted I tell myself, yet I still wander Down, inside, its tearing me apart"

Here she is talking about her physical self which she is satisfied with. Her problem lays way deeper in her soul and her emotions. She cannot work it out alone and it's tearing her apart.

"At last, relief A mothers son has left me sheer The shores I seek Are crimson tastes devine I can't make myself heard, no matter how hard I scream"

Finally her doubt was approved. She was left. "A mothers son" is used to show that she really wanted to identify with that man and/or that some part of her didn't believed in what her intuition told her. She understands that she was holding on to the wrong shore. And she again wants to scream so somebody could help her but nobody hears her.

By the way the background says "I will never fall in love again" that's what we usually tell to ourselves after we get hurt by love. But we all are "slaves of sensations" and we keep coming back to it.

"There is a story behind this song. Here is my guess:

I'm lost, exposed Stranger things will come your way Its just I'm scared Got hurt along time ago I can't make myself heard no matter how hard I scream

She is laying naked in front of a man after their sexual intercourse and she is wandering in doubts is this man gonna hurt her also like a previous man did. She is feeling vulnerable beside this man that's why the things will come his way. The man can't hear her fears. She already feels that he is gonna leave...

You are brilliant. I do not think it could of been explained any better, even by the band itself.