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Pixies - Here Comes Your Man

Pixies - Here Comes Your Man Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Doolittle
Released: 1989

Here Comes Your Man 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
You'll never wait so long

Here Comes Your Man
Here comes your man
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
Here comes your man
Here comes your man
Here comes your man

There is a wait so long
You'll never wait so long

Here comes your man
Here comes your man
Here comes your man
Here comes your man

Here comes your man
Here comes your man
Here comes your man
Here comes your man

Here comes your man
Here comes your man
Here comes your man
Here comes your man

Here comes your man

Writer/s: CHARLES THOMPSON
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Here Comes Your Man

This has been rumored to be about a drug deal, but in an interview with New Musical Express, Frank Black said the song was about hobos traveling by train and dying in a big earthquake in California. He started writing it when he was about 15 and was inspired by small earthquakes experienced growing up in California.

With much more pop appeal than most Pixes efforts, this became their most popular song, getting lots of airplay on college radio stations. The Pixies never seemed too concerned about popularity, however, and didn't bother promoting the song as a hit single.

The Pixies included this song on their first demo when they set out to get a record deal. Once they were signed, Frank Black had no intention of recording the song, and didn't until their third album, Doolittle. "People have been telling us to record it ever since so we finally did," he said.

In our 2015 interview with Frank Black , he called this song "Hobo film noir."

This became a concert favorite for the Pixies after they reunited in 2004 (they broke up in 1993), but when it first came out, Frank Black had no intention of playing it. "The poppiest song on Doolittle, which we couldn't even play live if we tried, is 'Here Comes Your Man,'" he told The Catalogue in 1989. "We would never play that song live; we're too far removed from it. It's too wimpy-poppy."

Joey Santiago played a 12-string Rickenbacker to get the jangly guitar sound on this track.

Pixies - Andro Queen

Pixies - Andro Queen Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: EP1
Released: 2013

Andro Queen Lyrics

Now Andro Queen has lost her ring
I think it used to sit right here
Encrusted in blue and hard and true
For now I will kiss her finger

Have you ever seen Andro Queen
Wandering all for her ruby?
One day she'll come in through my window
Yes, she gave me her own true pledge

For what's missing I'll sacrifice my flesh
Only kissing you is so hard in this wild thresh
That's how it's been with Andro Queen

Loving on our bed of flowers
Breathing in the smell of her musk
In a moon of milk she is scared, yes, she is
But she shows me under her silk

For what's missing I'll sacrifice my flesh
Only kissing you is so hard in this wild thresh
I wave goodbye to Andro

Mi aspekti al la cxielo por via reveni
Mi aspekti cxe via mano al vidi la ringo
Kaj ni will promeni kune al via cambro
Nia ami will esti nova
Nia ami will esti nova

She's off in a silver rocket
Off to the gas and rings of Saturn
Off her head she gave me a lock, yes, she did
For my neck a rusted locket

For what's missing I'll sacrifice my flesh
Only kissing you is so hard in this wild thresh
For what's missing I'll sacrifice my flesh
Only kissing you is so hard in this wild thresh

Writer/s: THOMPSON, CHARLES
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Andro Queen

Black Francis sings this mystical love song's bridge in the international language Esperanto. It translates as:

"I look to the heavens for your return
I look at your hand to see the ring
And we will walk together to your room
Our love will be a new
Our love will be a new."

Esperanto is an artificial language developed in the 1880s by Polish physician Dr. Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof. Its name means 'the hopeful one,' the pseudonym of its inventor. Zamenhof created it to be politically neutral, transcendent of nationality, and easy to learn, hoping it would become a universal second language. Current estimates of Esperanto speakers range from 100,000 to 2,000,000 active or fluent speakers worldwide, including around a thousand native speakers who learned it from birth as one of their native languages.

Pixies - U-Mass

Pixies - U-Mass Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Trompe Le Monde
Released: 1991

U-Mass Lyrics

In the sleepy West
Of the woody East
Is a valley full
Full o' pioneer

We' re not just kids
To say the least
We got ideas
To us that' s dear

Like capitalism
Like communism
Like lots of things
You've heard about

And redneckers
They get us pissed
And stupid stuff
It makes us shout

Oh dance with me
Oh don't be shy
Oh kiss me cunt
Oh kiss me cock
Oh kiss the world
Oh kiss the sky
Oh kiss my ass
Oh let it rock
Of the April birds
And the may bee
Oh baby
It' s educational [Repeat x8]
University
Of Massachusetts, please
And here' s the last five
It's educational [Repeat x4]
Eeeed eeeed uuuuh caaaah tioooon

Writer/s: THOMPSON, CHARLES
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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U-Mass

U-Mass is short for "University Of Massachusetts," where lead singer Black Francis and guitarist Joey Santiago met and formed the band. Francis wasn't enthralled with the institution: he quit after two years.

Pixies - Cactus

Pixies - Cactus Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Come On Pilgrim
Released: 1987

Cactus Lyrics

Sitting here wishing on a cement floor
Just wishing that I had just something you wore
I put it on when I go lonely
Will you take off your dress and send it to me?

I miss your kissin' and I miss your head
And a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead
Run outside in the desert heat
Make your dress all wet and send it to me

I miss your soup and I miss your bread
And a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead
So spill your breakfast and drip your wine
Just wear that dress when you're dying

P-I-X-I-E-S

Sitting here wishing on a cement floor
Just wishing that I had just something you wore
Bloody your hands on a Cactus tree
Wipe it on your dress and send it to me

Sitting here wishing on a cement floor
Just wishing that I had just something you wore
Writer/s: THOMPSON, CHARLES
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Cactus

A track from the first Pixies album, "Cactus" is about a man in prison missing his wife and wishing she would send him something with her scent.

David Bowie covered this song on his Heathens album.

Pixies - Ana

Pixies - Ana Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Bossanova
Released: 1990

Ana Lyrics

She's my fave, undressing in the sun
Return to sea, bye, forgetting everyone
Eleven high, ride a wave

She's my fave, undressing in the sun
Return to sea, bye, forgetting everyone
Eleven high, ride a wave
Writer/s: THOMPSON, CHARLES
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Ana

This song is about surfing. Notice the first letter of each line for the meaning:

(S)he's my fave
(U)ndressing in the sun
(R)eturn to sea
(F)orgetting everyone
(E)leven high
(R)ide the wave

The Pixies aren't known for surf music, but it's something they enjoyed. Frontman Frank Black explained: "I think some of our stuff sounds kinda surfy sometimes. The sound is really basic and totally involves chord progressions and a cute little riff."

Pixies - Blue Eyed Hexe

Pixies - Blue Eyed Hexe Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: EP2
Released: 2014

Blue Eyed Hexe Lyrics

I went to make the vivisection
Saw the star carved on her chest
Goat of lust, attacking heaven
Points to the gaze of the Blue Eyed Hexe

Blue eyed hexe
Blue eyed hexe
Hexe hexe
Blue eyed hexe

I tried to hide but I was not able
Shirt was opened down to her navel
Felt a burning in my solar plexus
Give me the pow-wow, give me the hexe

Blue eyed hexe
Blue eyed hexe
Hexe hexe
Blue eyed hexe

I called the Nixes from The Queets
Spirits take me through the straits
Closed my eyes to stop her vexing
Still the burning of the blue eyed hexe

Blue eyed hexe
Blue eyed hexe
Hexe hexe
Blue eyed hexe

Blue eyed hexe
Blue eyed hexe
Hexe hexe
Blue eyed hexe

Writer/s: THOMPSON, CHARLES
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Blue Eyed Hexe

This was released as the lead single from the Pixies' EP2. The songs were recorded during October 2012 at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wales and were produced by Gil Norton. They were made available to fans via a limited edition 10" vinyl, which came complete with a black patch-stitched hoodie. Alternatively, fans could simply download the EP via Pixies website.

Vocalist Black Francis explained the song's meaning: "It's a tale from the northwestern part of the UK," he said, "and it's a witch-woman kind of a song. That's what a 'hexe' is, and ours is a blue-eyed hexe."

A Hexe is a German word for a witch. The German medieval metal band Subway to Sally once recorded a song titled "Die Hexe."

Guitarist Joey Santiago said of his contribution: "Gil wanted a swagger, he wanted the guitar solo to sound like you're going to have sex with this blue-eyed hexe."

The song was originally teased by Frank Black in a Vine clip in August 2013 and debuted by the band the following month during an unannounced show at Los Angeles' Echo.

The lyric "Nixes from the Queets" combines German mythology with the name of a river in Washington state. Black Francis told Mojo magazine that Pixies songs exist on "an abstract plain."

Pixies - Greens and Blues

Pixies - Greens and Blues Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: EP2
Released: 2014

Greens and Blues Lyrics

I'm not together, and you know it's true.
My bits all wander in the trees.
And if I ever seem a little strange,
Would you excuse me please?

I said I’m human, but you know I lie.
I'm only visiting this shore.
I'll soon be leaving in the outbound tide
I pray again we will meet.

I’m wasting your time, just talking to you
Maybe best you go on home.
I'll leave you alone, fade from your mind,
Slip into the Greens and Blues.

I said I'm human, but you know I lied.
I'm only visiting this shore.
I'll soon be leaving in the outbound tide.
I pray again we will meet.

I’m wasting your time, just talking to you
Maybe best you go on home.
I'll leave you alone, fade from your mind
Slip into the greens and blues.

Greens and blues
Greens and blues
Greens and blues
Greens and blues

I’m wasting your time, just talking to you,
Maybe best you go on home.
I'll leave you alone, fade from your mind,
Slip into the greens and blues.

I’m wasting your time, just talking to you,
Maybe best you go on home.
I'll leave you alone, fade from your mind,
Slip into the greens and blues.

Greens and blues

Writer/s: THOMPSON, CHARLES
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Greens and Blues

Frontman Black Francis: "As with all my songs, I would prefer people add their own interpretation to it. But, in this case, let's just say that we had done 'Gigantic' as the closer for many years at our reunion shows and it worked really well. But I could see that we were going to grow weary of that and I felt like we basically needed a better 'Gigantic.'"

"It was my attempt to come up with another song that would ' musically, emotionally and psychologically ' sit in the same place that 'Gigantic' has sat," he continued. "Not that I could ever replace that song: you write songs and they come out the way they come out. So perhaps it can be said that this song fills the emotional niche that 'Gigantic' occupied, another show-closer. I think the lyric alludes to that, the fact that it's the end of the night, the end of something. And a separation if you will, between the band and the audience. So I guess it's kind of a goodbye song, or really more of a 'good night' song."

The song's music video was directed by Josh Frank, who co-wrote the Pixies oral history Fool The World. The clip stars Mel Rodriguez as the only person left on a deserted world. The American actor is best known for his roles as Migo Salazar in Running Wilde, Sgt. Nunez in Community and Patsy De La Serda in Getting On. He also had a brief appearance as Officer Morales in the 2002 film Panic Room.

Pixies - Debaser

Pixies - Debaser Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Doolittle
Released: 1989

Debaser Lyrics

Got me a movie
I want you to know
Slicing up eyeballs
I want you to know

Girlie so groovy
I want you to know
Don't know about you
But I am un chien andalusia

I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia

Wanna grow up to be
Be a Debaser
(Debaser)
Debaser
(Debaser)
Debaser
(Debaser)

Debaser
(Debaser)
Debaser
(Debaser)
Debaser
(Debaser)

Got me a movie
Ha ha ha ho
Slicing up eyeballs
Ha ha ha ho

Girlie so groovie
Ha ha ha ho
Don't know about you
But I am un chien andalusia

I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia

(Debaser)
Debaser
(Debaser)
Debaser
(Debaser)
Debaser

(Debaser)
Debaser
(Debaser)
Debaser
(Debaser)
Debaser
Writer/s: THOMPSON, CHARLES
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Debaser

This weird and aggressive song was inspired by the cruel and surrealistic movie Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) by Spanish moviemaker Luis Bunuel. The song is about the movie "debasing" morality in the art world.

The reference to "Slicing up eyeballs" in the opening lyrics is to a shocking scene in Un Chien Andalou where an eyeball is being sliced open.

If the lyrics in this song don't make much sense, that's because Pixies frontman Frank Black was more concerned with the sounds of the words rather than their meanings. "It has more to do with rhyming words and getting things to mathematically fit in a nice way in my songs," he said. "I don't think about the words too much, I just come up with them, things that just pop into my head."

"Debaser" has many features of a Nirvana song (opens with a bass solo, start/stop rhythms, lurching and noisy guitar solo, and loud/soft dynamics). This is because the Pixies were one of Kurt Cobain's main influences. Cobain said that when writing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" he was trying to imitate "Debaser" musically and lyrically. The guitar riffs of the two songs are very similar.

"Weird Al" Yankovic's "First World Problems" digs at trivial issues of the privileged class via a Pixies homage. The beginning of the song, featured on his 2014 Mandatory Fun album, is a nod to this song.

Pixies - Crackity Jones

Pixies - Crackity Jones Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Doolittle
Released: 1989

Crackity Jones Lyrics

Hose Jones
Told me alone
His story
He got friends
Like Pacro Picopiedra
La Muneca
He receives on his set

Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
(Wup, wup)
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones

Please forgive me
Hose Jones
You need these walls
For your own
I'm movin' out of this hospedaje
I'm afraid you'll cut me boy

Thirty miles by
Hundred miles by
Stinkin' island
Por goofiar
An' cruisin' automobile
Chasin' voices
He receives in his head

Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
(Wup, wup)
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
(Wup, wup)
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones
Writer/s: THOMPSON, CHARLES
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Crackity Jones

Lead singer Frank Black wrote the lyrics about the frighteningly violent (crackity), gay roommate he had when he lived in Puerto Rico in 1985. He recalled to Mojo magazine May 2014: "Looking back, he just had some mental health issues. I found him frightening, a little mysterious." (thanks, Eulbie - New York, NY)

Like he did on several Pixies songs, Frank Black inserted some Spanish words and phrases in the lyric. During the six months he spent in Puerto Rico (on an exchange program when he was a student at the University of Massachusetts), Black learned just a bit of Spanish, so it was always a bit disjointed when he used the language in his songs. Here's the translation of the Spanish in this song:

"paco picopiedra" - Fred Flintstone (should really be "Pedro Picapiedra")
"la muñeca" - the doll
"hospedaje" - dorm room
"goofiar" - goof off
"automovil" - car

At Pixies shows, the mosh pits would amp up during this song, as it's a perfect track to release some aggression.

Pixies - Silver Snail

Pixies - Silver Snail Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Indie Cindy
Released: 2014

Silver Snail Lyrics

On my way back to one
Half asleep with a loaded gun
In a room with a light bulb sun
Ain't no place far too high

Add an orgy of rooms and vibes
And the sea of the suicides
Follow me, see my silver trails
Blessed me, when is a snail a tail
I am the Silver Snail

On my way back to one
On my way back to seventh sun
Then I count to a million
He will awake from his dream
Find his way in these honey beans
Find a way to the queen of queens

Silver spoons for my silver snails
Like harpoons for the killer wales
I am the silver snail
On my way back to one
Half asleep with a loaded gun
In a room with a light bulb sun
On my way back to one
Half asleep with a loaded gun
In a room with a light bulb sun

Writer/s: THOMPSON, CHARLES
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Silver Snail

Pixies' Black Francis said about the Mount Emult directed video for the track. "We've always liked the idea of working with young, up-and-coming, independent film makers, as we think that their energy and vision would probably best compliment what we've tried to do with our music."

"Consequently, we've really had very little creative input in this new 'Silver Snail' video or any of the others that have been made for the Indie Cindy project," he added. "I think the only direction we've given any of those who have made a music video for us this time was just to be as creative and innovative as they want - no barriers. And looking back at the series of videos we have for this project, they've all done just that."

Asked by Q magazine about the inspiration for this song, Black Francis replied: "Snails of course, and the reproductive technique they've developed over time. That was a big inspiration. It's a very psychedelic thing. They're asexual and they shoot these little harpoons at each other through the air (makes gunshot noises) at each other. So there's a lot of references to how they procreate."

"But sex is considered a creative energy, so the next layer of the song is self-referential to the band. It's about the band and it's about snails pretty much."

While we are on the subject of snails, here are some fun facts:

A snail can sleep for three years.

Garden Snails can have up to 25,000 thousand teeth, which are mounted on their tongue (radula). They are classed as Gastropods meaning, "walking stomach."

Giving Prozac to a snail renders it unable to stick to surfaces.

The slipper-shelled snail starts life as a male and gradually turns female as it grows up.

The French eat 25,000 tons of snails a year, equivalent to 700 million individual snails. Roman - or Burgundy- snails are among the most popular.

Pixies - Caribou

Pixies - Caribou Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Come On Pilgrim
Released: 1987

Caribou Lyrics

I live cement
I hate this street
Give dirt to me
I bite lament
This human form
Where i was born
I now repent

Caribou [Repeat: x3]
Repent
Repent

Give me wide
Ground to run
And foregone
Lets me knife
Knife me lets
I will get
What i like

Caribou [Repeat: x3]
Repent
Repent

Writer/s: STEPNEY, CHARLES/GILES, RICK
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Caribou Song Chart

Pixies lead singer Black Francis wrote "Caribou" for the group's debut album, though he confessed to NME he has "absolutely no memory of writing that song."

But that doesn't mean he dislikes it; in fact, it's one of his favorites. He likes playing it so much that even when it's not on a setlist, he'll swap out a different song so he can sneak it in.

Black Francis told NME the abstraction of this song is related to reincarnation, "maybe even the singer of the song is reincarnated as a caribou."

Black Francis and drummer David Lovering call this one of the group's defining songs with its juxtaposing elements like soft, sweet singing and screaming. "It kind of runs the whole gamut of things that we do with music," Francis explained.

Lovering says he borrowed a friend's drum set when the band recorded this at Fort Apache Studios in Roxbury, Massachusetts.