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Bone Machine Lyrics
Artist: Pixies
Album: Death To The Pixies
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)
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Comments/Interpretations
Awsome<333
"you're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me" is the most painful, truthful lyric ever
It sounds like Irish skin to me. i just listened to the live version from Lyon with headphones about 4 times.
i know its technical, but i think the last line should be "oh-uh, oh-uh, oh-uh, oh-uh" -- this i know from listening to the song and reading along. its also why its (3x) and not (4x).
These lyrics make me cry. Kenny, do you want to meet up?
i thought the lyric was "your orangish skin looks mexican"
It's defo "Irish" skin, it makes way more sense, he's talking about a cute white girl
I like the pixies a lot but frank's references are hard to catch. I swear this is just "white-boy" double entendre.
This was the very first song I heard by the Pixies back in 1987 on the radio one night when I was living in California. The next week my wife was given the CD Surfer Rosa as a gift and gave it to me since she's not really into rock. I loved it so much I took it as a sign that I must buy every thing they ever put out as they put it out. I LOVE the Pixies and wish they never broke up!
The lyrics has got to be "Irish skin looks Mexican", I'd say. It could refer to pale Irish skin looking tan, like a Mexican's. Since the girl being talked about has a fondness for the beach.
"You're looking like
You've got some sun"
^And that.
UH-OH-UH-OH-UH-OH!!!
COOOOOL!!!!
So funny how you listen to a song for years and then finally see the lyrics and it just changes everything!!
Surfer Rosa originally. Death to the Pixies was a best of.
I may be wrong.
Just heard this song on 94.9 san diego...coming back from mexico to L.A....what a track!
yeah, its definitely "your Irish skin". I agree. but its not like it matters, its not gonna do anything talking about how its wrong.
What about, "your eyes and skin look Mexican"? That might work too.
Some of you have a wacky imagination... It's 'island' skin, the chick's Japanese!!! Japan is an island dig?
And you're really into Japanese fast food and your Jap lover, right?
uh huh
Who says she's Japanese???
I always heard 'Irish Skin'... But then again I thought it was 'you look alike, you got some sun'
By the way it should be 'You're' not 'your' in the second line...
olive skin looks mexican.
It's totally 'Irish skin'...it just makes sense that her pale skin has gone bronze from going to the beach 'all day'....
And they are my heroes..
I though it was "ivory skin looks Mexican", but that's a bit nonsensical.
theyre from boston its irish get it
I thought it was "Yo! Isacc Stern cooks Mexican."
:)
By the way, with Frank ANYTHING is possible. All his songs have a tinge of nonsensical about them.
yep its def irish skin
"The days are lit like everyone" should be "that taste a bit like everyone". as in she's kissed a whole bunch of people. cuz she cheats on him, you know.
"He bought me a soda and he tried to molest me in the parking lot
Yep, yep yep YEP!"
haha genius
what exactly does the chorus mean? I love this song!
she is a mail order bride come on people
...Or perhaps this Japanese girl is so pale she's reminding him of famously white Irish skin?
Although Ireland is, as we all know and appreciate, an island.
And - who's Carol?
If this plot gets any thicker, we'd simply have to call it Dumbo.
It's not:
The days are lit like everyone
It's:
They taste a bit like everyone
This is a song about a girl who cheats on her bf. Makes more sense that way, eh?
It's always been Irish skin. And I've always thought he was referring to her lover as "Japanese fast food" in a snarky sort of way, describing him as a cheap lay.
pošteno
What the hell is a bone machine? .I still love the song
a bone machine is a thrusting pelvis... aka something to fuck.
It is so "IRISH SKIN" i know island makes sense, but thats just not what he says... watch a live version.
This song is for Carol!
You know any Japanese with the name of Carol? It's Irish...
who on earth suggested "carol" was a japanese girl?! a japanese girl who likes japanese food and japanese men, wow great lyrics. it says irish. she's got a tan so she looks mexican. she's gone from being a wee boring paley irish lass to an exotic man eater. but of course its all tinged with irony (nothing exotic about fast food/blisters)
So if they didn't want it, why did he build it anyway. Fucking Alec!
I don't normally bother contributing to these things, but I just spent a half hour of my life on this. Granted, it was spent listening to one of the best songs of all time, but still... it was a half hour. It is "Irish skin" without a doubt. The album has always sounded like Irish skin to me. Every live version I found on YouTube says Irish. Their mouths look like they are saying Irish and not Island. It is, and always will be "Irish Skin".
The lyric is : Irish skin deffo. Not Island skin. Listened x12 times in a row while sober despite being very Irish myself.