Post lyrics that you can't get the slightest glimmer of meaning from and watch everyone else attempt to interpret them. This song has always confused me. I think it might just be a bunch of sexual innuendoes strung together, but I don't have the foggiest clue in hell.

Pavement - Rattled by the Rush

Oh, that I could bend my tongue outwards
Leave your lungs hurting
Tuckin' my shirt in
Pants I wear so well
Cross your t's shirt smells
Worse than your lyin'
Caught my dad cryin'
Loose like the wind
From the rough we get par
Sleet city woman
Waiting to spar

I'm Drowning for your thirst
Drowning for your thirst
Drowning for your thirst
Drowning for your thirst

Getting off the candelabra
We call her Barbara
Breeding like larva
She rabble rousing
Dental surf combat
Get out those hard-hats
And sing us some skat
Blade gushers gush
Chained and perfumed
I don't need a minister to call me a groom

no soap in the john
no soap in the john
no soap in the john
no soap in the john

But I'm rattled by the rush
Rattled by the rush
Rattled by the rush
Rattled by the rush

Rattled by the rush
Rattled by the rush
Rattled by the rush
Rattled by the rush (makes you wanna say your prayers)

Rattled by the rush
Rattled by the rush
Rattled by the rush
Rattled by the rush (makes you wanna say your prayers)

Rattled by the rush
Rattled by the rush
Rattled by the rush
Rattled by the rush (makes you wanna say your prayers)

Rattled by the rush
Rattled by the rush
Rattled by the rush
Rattled by the rush (makes you wanna say your prayers)

Pretty much anything on "Chronic Town" or "Murmur".

MORAL KIOSK


Scratch the scandals in the twilight
Trying to shock but instead
Idle hands all orient to her
Pass a magic pillow under head
It's so much more attractive inside the moral kiosk
Inside, cold, dark, fire, twilight
Inside, cold, dark, fire, twilight

They scratch the scandals in the twilight
She was laughing like a Horae
Put that knee in dour landslide
Take this step to dash a roving eye
It's so much more attractive inside the moral kiosk
Inside, cold, dark, fire, twilight
Inside, cold, dark, fire, twilight


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I'll buy those quotes so far (for nothing American), but you see, R.E.M. and Pavement were ALWAYS MORE interesting when they didn't make sense. When you could "understand" the man behind the curtain, the "magic" was "lost", but not necessarily permanently! Hail, Losers! (GAB) (Great American Bands.)

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Originally posted by mark f:
When you could "understand" the man behind the curtain, the "magic" was "lost"

I wonder if the mystique factor is part of the reason why so many Americans went ga-ga over last year's "Ta Det Lugnt" by Dungen.

Heck, for all we know, the guy could have been singing "Rice is Nice on Wedding Bell Day" in Swedish.

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Originally posted by mark f:
I'll buy those quotes so far (for nothing American), but you see, R.E.M. and Pavement were ALWAYS MORE interesting when they didn't make sense. When you could "understand" the man behind the curtain, the "magic" was "lost", but not necessarily permanently! Hail, Losers! (GAB) (Great American Bands.)

Nice point, mark. I thought that part of the point of Pavement's music was that it was gibberish. With R.E.M. it seemed like more of a deliberate artsiness, but Pavement lyrics always struck me as intentionally goofy. And there's even a connecting thread between the two...listen to Pavement's R.E.M. tribute song "The Unseen Power of the Picket Fence" to see them aping R.E.M. by stringing together R.E.M. song titles...

But maybe that Pavement song is about being rattled by the BAND Rush...I get rattled whenever I hear "Tom Sawyer" on classic rock radio, and I rush to change the channel!