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Wave of mutilation Lyrics

Artist: Pixies
Album: Death To The Pixies

cease to resist, giving my goodbye
drive my car into the ocean
you'll think i'm dead, but i sail away
on a wave of mutilation
a wave
wave

i've kissed mermaids, rode the el nino
walked the sand with the crustaceans
could find my way to mariana
on a wave of mutilation,
wave of mutilation
wave of mutilation
wave

wave of mutilation
wave

Comments/Interpretations
by Jelehfi$h on 5/23/2008 3:54pm Duh. It's about mutilation and shit.
by al on 5/28/2008 2:10am no, maaaaannn. it's about society, dude kidding
by itsallinthedelivery on 6/12/2008 6:16pm um... its about all those years ago when johnny and i were bleeding each other to death.
by Emma on 6/17/2008 6:11pm rofl its just a fucking cool chill out song noobs
by Enema on 6/23/2008 10:03pm It's about suicide, figuratively, while surfing. If one could ride the best waves on the best beaches then there is nothing else to which to look forward. Listen to original on the way to the beach, then the movie version afterwards and you may hear what I mean.
by Yakuu on 7/5/2008 11:57pm It's about nothing (like almost all of their songs)!! They took a few random ideas and mixed them in a bowl, ate and finally puke them in this kick ass song (both versions)
by Dorian on 7/11/2008 3:43pm It's about El Nino. He said so in concert. Dumbasses.
by Ben on 7/11/2008 9:39pm I think it's a love song, just my interpretation all the stuff you'd do for a girl?
by Lily on 7/21/2008 8:28pm Enema~ I completely agree with you. It's about suicide, although my interpretation was about someone who had either shot themselves or cut their wrists. Hence the name: Wave of Mutilation. Thoughts?
by Aline on 7/22/2008 1:07pm either way, this song rocks my socks... sit back and relax, dude
by Gilles on 7/25/2008 9:24am it's about El Nino, i saw it on a concert vid. anywho, ben, you'd drive a car into the ocean for a chick?
by ChildinInfection on 8/1/2008 12:00am Gilles i think your right, i mean the el nino created a lot of devastation so it seems like thats what it would be about. haha also to the question to ben, hell yea i would drive my car into an ocean for a girl ^^
by Belalan on 8/15/2008 3:13am R u fucking blind??? Its about suicide this is an aussie talking and we fucking live with the el nino and it is harmless. The mention of El nino is for bragging rights.
by Sabruka on 8/31/2008 11:32am It's about abandon.
by Brett N. on 9/3/2008 6:24pm Are you guys serious? I mean, really? C'mon kids. As I see it theres only 2 logical interpretations of this song. One, it uses surreal imagery(its namesake, for example) to sarcasticly depict the means Frank Black would go to in order to reach Mariana. Two, the song is a literal exersise in self-pity in which Frank drives his car into the ocean, killing himself. After which, he gives a tounge-in-cheek account of how he'll get to Mariana in which he appears to still be alive. I've been attracted to Pixies use of surreal and violent imagery for several years now and I have to admit; I think the most accurate interpretation is a combination of the two set forth above.
by musicmojo on 9/4/2008 2:22pm read the wiki about the Doolittle Record. Frank spills it all out..."Japanese Business man doing murder-suicides by driving off the edge of a pier".
by maeve on 9/4/2008 11:49pm It reminds me of TS Eliot's prufrock poem. The man is so bored and anxious over the complicated expectations of living in the victorian upper class. there are a lot of things he says but two lines sort of remind me of this song when he wishes he was born "a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas" or near the end of the poem where he feels like he will never be good enough for the stuck up victorian women so he fantasizes about being drowned by singing mermaids. It's definately a stretch but the poem reminded me so much i felt i had to mention it here.
by Cody Muthafuckin Wirth on 9/9/2008 6:40pm I just watched a live performance of this song, and Black Francis said the song is about El Nino, period. nuccas
by ur mum on 9/21/2008 6:18pm its about some jap who drove him self off of a peir and his body washed up on the shore of mexico or soem souther american city
by JohnPopes on 9/25/2008 1:31pm No dude, it's about him trashing his car in the ocean, then making out with mermaids finally trying to get in mariana's panties..
by Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior on 10/12/2008 9:50pm Is it about me?
by ArynBear on 10/26/2008 7:52pm Fuck that. Its just a song. A good one at that. Let it be. They would have explained it if It was meant to be known.
by M.C. Swell on 11/1/2008 3:19pm Ug, guys? Its obviously about the freedom of riding skateboards in todays success obsessed and materialized society.
by DRAKE AND JOSH on 11/20/2008 9:12pm asdafa
by FISH on 11/21/2008 4:27pm WOW, I can't believe i just read all of this. every song has a different meaning to everyone, so just enjoy your own feelings when you hear it! Great Song (both ver.)!!!!
by colleen on 11/24/2008 12:06am It's actually about the suicides of Japanese business men in the late 1980's.
by CrustaceanMan on 11/25/2008 3:58pm It's the Pixies. Com on. They don't have meanings behind their songs, they just put whatever sounds cool and funny.
by mmm on 11/25/2008 5:29pm It's about El Niño tropical current... a lot of the Pixies songs deal with ecological disasters. Even BF says the song is about that.
by Alan on 11/27/2008 7:50pm He did claim in concert (jokingly) that he was the first to write about El Nino. The song isn't actually literally about El Nino. The Jappy businessman story sounds pretty good, though. BUT the beauty of the Pixies is that you can interpret their songs in a million different ways. Just pull up and acoustic guitar and enjoy.
by fefner on 12/7/2008 12:13pm its a perspective...dont try to understand it, thats a waste..just fucking enjoy it, good songs dont happen everyday.
by scott mmmm on 12/13/2008 1:39am sorry, you people are so un-skuled. it all references the french new wave movie classic, pierrot le feu. pierrot drives his car with marianna in it into the ocean, at some point she runs away from him, he tries to find her. in the end (don't read this if you see want to see the movie, and you should) shoots her and tires a band of dynamite around his head, then lights it - mutilation. the last scene is looking out at ocean waves. they did a video with scenes from the movie as well. sorry to be a know it all.
by syoaran on 12/17/2008 10:57pm its cease to exist
by syoaran on 12/17/2008 10:59pm and its "youll think im dead, but im still alive"
by nigger on 12/29/2008 9:44pm i suck pp's
by what? on 1/3/2009 10:54pm this is stupid pixies have meaning behind their songs.. and who cares what it really means.. dumb asssesss

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