one’s from Stacy — she links to a lyrics site where one of the
commenters says that the lyrics to the Pixies’ oddly Beatles-esque and poppiest tune is about Nagasaki.
Here are the lyrics:
outside there’s a box car waiting
outside the family stew
out by the fire breathing
outside we wait ’til face turns blue
i know the nervous walking
i know the dirty beard hangs
out by the box car waiting
take me away to nowhere plains
there is a wait so long
here comes your man
big shake on the box car moving
big shake to the land that’s falling down
is a wind makes a palm stop blowing
a big, big stone fall and break my crown
there is a wait so long
you’ll never wait so long
here comes your man
there is a wait so long
you’ll never wait so long
here comes your man
The commenter’s theory that the song is about Nagasaki is based on the fact that the delivery vehicle for the A-bomb — named Fat Man — was a B-29 bomber named the Bockscar, which will have flown the mission 60 years ago this August 9th. Given lead vocalist Black Francis‘
(a.k.a. Frank Black, a.k.a. Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV)
predilection for odd topics and science in his lyrics, I’d say that
this commenter could be right.
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