TAOS Lyrics

Lyric discussion by ahab3 

Cover art for TAOS lyrics by Menomena

I'm guessing the acronym is The Art of Seduction. Yeah?

The real question is: what does BOTE stand for? (Aside from that song obviously having a lot of boat references...)

I think the capitalization of TAOS is arbitrary. You look at Menomena's song titles and it's pretty clear this band doesn't give one sh*t about song titles. That's actually the only thing I dislike about them, how they give such great songs such terrible titles.

Anyway, a few tiny corrections: I think he says "I still SURVIVE the good cockfight."

Also, he says "We've all got our vices, this one's MINES," a reference to the album title, which is the plural form of "mine" and not holes in the ground.

And "...set me...