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Lyrics: Surfer Rosa

Bone Machine

This is a song for Carol
Your into Japanese fastfood
And I drop you off with your Japanese lover
And you're going to the beach all day
You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me
You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me

You're looking like
You've got some sun
Your blistered lips
Have got a kiss
The days are lit like everyone
Uh-oh, Uh-oh, Uh-oh, Uh-oh

Your bones got a little machine
You're the bone machine

I was talking to preachy-preach about kissy-kiss
He bought me a soda
He bought me a soda
He bought me a soda and he tried to molest me in the parking lot
Yep, yep yep YEP!

I make you break
You make me hard
Your Irish skin *
Looks Mexican
Our love is rice and beans and horses lard
Your bones got a little machine
You're the bone machine

Uh-oh, Uh-oh, Uh-oh, Uh-oh  (3x)
Uh-oh, Uh-oh, Uh-oh, Uh-oh

* : "Irish" should be "Island" (i.e. "Your Island skin looks Mexican"), as in
one of the islands of the Caribbean (submitted by Brian Gallagher)


Break My Body

I'm the hard looser
You'll find me crashing through my mother's door
I am the ugly lover
You'll find us rolling on the dirty floor

Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones  (3x)

I'm a belly dancer
I'll shake forever and I'll never care
I'm a building jumper
Roof to roof you see me flying in the air

Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones  (3x)

Somebody got hurt
Somebody get hurt
Somebody got her


Something Against You

Here it comes...
?

I have something against you
You have something against me
I have something against you

?
?

You have something against me
I have something against you
And I'm gonna use it
I am one happy prick


Broken Face

I got a broken face
I got a 
I got a broken face
Uh-hu, uh-hu, uh-hu, uh-hu, ooo
I got a broken face  (3x)

There was this boy who had two
Children with his sisters
They were his daughters
They were his favourite lovers

I got no lips, I got no tongue
Whatever I say is only spit
I got no lips, I got no tongue

I got a broken face, uh-hu, uh-hu
I got a broken face 

There was this man who snapped his poke
In little pieces
And then they drilled holes 
And then they put 'em back in there

I got no lips, I got no tongue
Whatever I say is only spit
I got no lips, I got no tongue

I got a broken face
Uh-hu, uh-hu, uh-hu, uh-hu, ooo
I got a broken face 

The little thing who loves my mother
Speaks no English
But if you saw her
You'd say "Hey isn't she lovely"

I got no lips, I got no tongue
Whatever I say is only spit
I got no lips, I got no tongue

Corrected by Matt Perron


Gigantic

And this I know
His teeth as white as snow
What a gas it was to see him
Walk her every day
Into a shady place
With her lips she said
She said

Hey Paul, Hey Paul, Hey Paul, let's have a ball  (3x)

Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big big love
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big big love

Lovely legs there are
What a big black mask
What a hunk of love
Walk her every day into a shady place 
He's like the dark, but I'd want him

Hey Paul, Hey Paul, Hey Paul, let's have a ball  (3x)

Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big big love
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big big love

Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big big love
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big big love


River Euphrates

Ride, ride, ride, ...

Stuck here out of gas
Out here on the Gaza Strip
From driving in too fast

Let's ride the Tiger down river Euphrates

Ride, ride, ride, ...

Dead sea make it float
One sip from the salty wine
Dead sea make you choke

Let's ride the Tiger down river Euphrates

Submitted by Stephane Lecrivain


Where Is My Mind?

Ooooooh - stop

With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
But there's nothing in it 
And you'll ask yourself

Where is my mind  (3x)

Way out in the water
See it swimmin'

I was swimmin' in the Carribean
Animals were hiding behind the rock
Except the little fish
But they told me, he swears
Tryin' to talk to me to me to me

Where is my mind  (3x)

Way out in the water
See it swimmin' ?

With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
If there's nothing in it 
And you'll ask yourself

Where is my mind  (3x)

Ooooh
With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Ooooh
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Ooooh
Ooooh


Cactus

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

Corrected by Matt Perron


Tony's Theme

This is a song about a superhero named Tony
It's called Tony's Theme
  
He's got the oil on his chain, for a ride in the rain
No baloney
Ride around on my bicycle like a pony
I'm waving hi, hi, hi, hi, hi
Gu-gu-gu-Gimme a scream
Give me, give me the theme
Of Tony

To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny

I am Tony, super bicycle Tony, I'm racing
Spitfire turn and pop a wheelie, burn and evil chasing
I'm waving bye, bye, bye, bye, bye
I got a card in my spokes
I'm practicing my joke, I'm learning

To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny

This is a song about a superhero named Tony
It's called Tony's Theme

I can look at the sun if you give me some bad sun glasses
I'm back on the road, I cut my grass like I'm told
AFTER CLASSES!

To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny
To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny
To-ny

Submitted by Scott Lindsey


Oh My Golly!

Dentro las piñones y las olas riquenas 
Oh my golly! Oh my golly!
Caminamos bajo la luna caribe
Oh my golly! Oh my golly!
Besando, chichando con Surfer Rosa
Oh my golly! Oh my golly!
Huesped de su manera
Oh my golly! Oh my golly!
 
Rosa, oh oh ooh Rosa! 
Rosa, oh oh ooh Rosa!
 
Yo soy playero pero no hay playa
Oh my golly! Oh my golly!
Bien perdido por la Surfer Rosa
Oh my golly! Oh my golly!
La vida total es un porqueria, porqueria
Oh my golly! Oh my golly!
Hecho de menos mas que vida
Oh my golly! Oh my golly!
 
Rosa, oh oh ooh Rosa!  Huh Huh
Rosa, oh oh ooh Rosa!  Huh Huh
 
  TRANSLATION
 
    Between pine seeds and puertorican waves
    Walkin under the Carribean moon
    Kissing and chewing with Surfer Rosa
    Guest of her ways
    Rosa, oh oh ooh Rosa
    I'm a beachgoer but there is no beach
    Totally crazy for my Surfer Rosa
    All of life is a pigstay, pigstay
    I long (for her) more than my for life

Submitted by Ozren Harlovic and Filip Fruk

OR

Entro las Piñones y la ola es pequeña,
Oh my Golly!

Vamos para la luna caribe,
Oh my golly!
Besando chichando con surfer rosa,
Oh my golly!,
Se fue su madera
Oh my golly!

Rosa oh oh oh Rosa,

Yo soy playero pero no hay playa,
Oh my golly!
Bien perdida la surfer rosa,
Oh my golly!

La vida total es un porqueria porqueria,
Oh my golly!
Esto no es mas, que vida!
Oh my golly!
Rosa oh oh oh Rosa

TRANSLATION

    I enter Piñones and the wave is small,
    Oh my golly!

    Let's go to the caribbean moon,
    Oh my golly!
    Kissing and fucking with surfer rosa,
    Oh my golly!
    His wood is gone,

    Oh my golly!
    Rosa oh oh oh Rosa
    I'm a beach goer but there's no beach,
    Oh my golly!
    Very lost the surfer rosa,
    Oh my golly!

    Total life is shitty shitty.
    Oh my golly!
    This ain't more,what a life!
    Oh my golly!
    Rosa oh oh oh Rosa

Submitted by Carlos Lopez


Vamos

 "You fucking die" I said, to her
 I said "YOU FUCKING DIE", to her
 Huh? What? 
 No, no! I was talking to Kim
 I said "you fucking die"
 No, I was just- we were just goofing around
 No, no. It didn't have anything to do with anything
 She said: "Don't tou- anybody touch this is my stuff"
 And I said "You fucking die" like that
 I was finishing her part for her
 You know what I mean?

Esta pensando sobre viviendo con mi sister en New Jersey
Ella me dijo que es una vida buena ya
Bien rica, bien chevere
 
  TRANSLATION:
  She's thinking about living with my sister in NJ
  She told me it's a good life there
  Very rich, very splendid
 
We'll keep well bred
We'll stay well fed
We'll have our sons
They will be all well hung
 
They'll come and play
Their friends will say
Your daddy's rich
Your mamma's a pretty thing
 
That maid Maria she's really OK
 
Vamos a jugar por la playa  (5x)
  (Let's go playing on the beach)

Submitted by Ozren Harlovic and Filip Fruk


I'm Amazed
  
 - ...girls and fucked 'em at school
   All I know is that 
   There were rumours he was into field hockey players
   There were rumours
 - So he applied basically
 - He was gone the next day
 - And went off with the team
 - It's like - he was got - they'd just like
   It was like so hush hush
   They were so... quiet about it
   And then the next thing you know...

The day before that I was wed
She went upstairs and she cut her hair away

I'm amazed (3x)

And when I was a little boy
A ball of string my parents took from me

I'm amazed (3x)

Before I died, I took my Honda
And packed it up, up, up to Arizona (honey)

I'm amazed , I'm amazed, I'm amazed (4x)

Submitted by Scott Lindsey


Brick is Red

A fist is fast
And Jimmy's cast
Hang me

A white moon's hot
The other side's not
Hang me

It's not time for me for me to go
It's not time for me for me to go

My eyes have turned
Just the color of diamond
Just the color
The frayed color of ice

Last Updated 11-30-98