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Send "Bone Machine" Ringtone to your Cell Phone

Bone Machine
                                  By The Pixies

Tabbed by Sven Magnus (ZennY) using Buccket 'o Tab


During verses: (Intro is drum-only)
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||*--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------*|| Repeat
||*--5--5--5--5--|--------------|--3--3--3--3--|--------------*|| as needed
||---------------|--5--5--5--5--|--------------|--3--3--3--3---||



   During chorus:

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|--5--|--3--|-----|-----|
|-----|-----|--1--|--3--|

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture bryan Average	#1 by bryan smith at Mar 31, 1970 at 8:50 AM EST
	I think this some must be about a girl that cheats on him, but he still loves her more than ever.

No Picture rachel ♥ Wanna Be	#2 by rachel ♥ has met the pink spiders at Jul 23, 1974 at 6:17 PM EST
	PIXIES ARE A' COMIN' TO DENVER AT REDROX!!! anyway, i think all of you nailed it. all of you are right, in a "cosmic" sense. hope you know what i mean by that. i mean multi-dimensional, super-nova, anti-friction, disney movie

No Picture drew Wanna Be	#3 by drew peckover at Dec 15, 1974 at 10:49 AM EST
	Who is Charles refering to when he says "this is a song for carol" ? Can anyone educate me?

No Picture chris Average	#4 by chris thomas at Mar 25, 1975 at 2:16 AM EST
	typically half this song makes sense. Something about his girl cheating on him with a japanese guy, "You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me " She's getting all tarted up for this other guy etc. The bone machine i always thought of as a guy who has sex a lot, but that doesnt fit in with the rest of the song. Also the bit about being moletsted in a parkign lot?? WTF? its funny though

No Picture Roxie Wanna Be	#5 by Roxie Ramos at Aug 12, 1978 at 4:29 PM EST
	this is the song that you've got to listen to every single morning, when you wake up. you won't feel like a psycho killer, that's sure... i do it everyday!

No Picture Kevin Average	#6 by Kevin Toutkoushian at Apr 6, 1979 at 12:55 PM EST
	Thank you to ROBRAM89 and arfarf for great insight. This is helpful.

No Picture Slash Rhythm Player	#7 by Slash at Mar 3, 1983 at 1:01 PM EST
	i love the instrumental in this song! One of my fave the Pixies.

No Picture TK Average	#8 by TK at Mar 31, 1988 at 2:15 PM EST
	1. when he says "preachy-peach" he's sarcastically mocking the guy that she's cheating on him with. 2a. he goes to talk to this guy to find out what's up with him and the girl, and the guy, seeing that he likes him more than the girl, trys to win him over by getting him a soda and then he puts the moves on him. or 2b. he's using a warped meaning of the word molested. the guy buys him a soda to win his trust and then trys to kick his ass or 2c. the guy wins his trust and he trys to molest his feelings to get him to give the girl up to him well, there you go people, there's 3 possible scenarios, pick one, and stay clean!

No Picture Finn Badass	#9 by Finn Turnbull at Dec 16, 1995 at 10:47 PM EST
	It could mean something very unexpected and possibly quite telling of a deep, dark part of St. Francis the Black's psyche. After listening to this song far more times than any human being should, I think that this song may be about a man (probably not Frank himself, but who the hell knows) with a cuckolding fetish (i.e., being aroused by the thought or sight of your wife/girlfriend cheating on you). The first hint is the line "You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me," plus the lines about "dropping off her Japanese lover." In the second verse, he finally reveals to the other man (i.e. Japanese dude) what's been going on, that he's essentially a pawn in some sick sex game, and the guy proceeds to try to beat the crap out of him ("molest" is an interesting play on words there, as was mentioned before). Also, in a lsightly unrelated note, the line "Your bone's got a little machine" could be referring to this guy being a real human being, and her not treating him like one...possibly relating to him being a pawn in their weird little game (i.e. bone=umm, his "bone," and the machine=the rest of his being, as in theres a machine [person] behind that "bone"). The parts after both verses would be referring to how cheap their "love" has become in the midst of all this crazy shit going on. Just a thought...and more of an explanation than the usual Frank-Black-got-stoned-out-of-his-gourd-and-shit-some-words-on-a-piece-of-paper Pixies lyric theory.

No Picture sebastian Professional	#10 by sebastian at May 4, 1998 at 7:45 AM EST
	Right on the nut. Some additional points: 1) "rice and beans and horses lard" = second rate. 2) the "bone machine" is Carol who's a pawn to the main man 3) "Japanese fastfood" = the part-time lover My read is that the relationship is now over, and this is a bitter review.

No Picture Wanna Be	#11 by ~ Milo ~ at Mar 27, 2005 at 10:49 PM EST
	It could mean something very unexpected and possibly quite telling of a deep, dark part of St. Francis the Black's psyche. After listening to this song far more times than any human being should, I think that this song may be about a man (probably not Frank himself, but who the hell knows) with a cuckolding fetish (i.e., being aroused by the thought or sight of your wife/girlfriend cheating on you). The first hint is the line "You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me," plus the lines about "dropping off her Japanese lover." In the second verse, he finally reveals to the other man (i.e. Japanese dude) what's been going on, that he's essentially a pawn in some sick sex game, and the guy proceeds to try to beat the crap out of him ("molest" is an interesting play on words there, as was mentioned before). Also, in a lsightly unrelated note, the line "Your bone's got a little machine" could be referring to this guy being a real human being, and her not treating him like one...possibly relating to him being a pawn in their weird little game (i.e. bone=umm, his "bone," and the machine=the rest of his being, as in theres a machine [person] behind that "bone"). The parts after both verses would be referring to how cheap their "love" has become in the midst of all this crazy shit going on. Just a thought...and more of an explanation than the usual Frank-Black-got-stoned-out-of-his-gourd-and-shit-some-words-on-a-piece-of-paper Pixies lyric theory.

No Picture Hobey Average	#12 by Hobey Bass at Aug 30, 2006 at 11:16 PM EST
	Isn't he confiding in a priest (preachy-peach) about his cheating girlfriend; resulting in aforemention 'molesting in parking lot'?

No Picture alex Lead Player	#13 by alex beaulieu at Sep 23, 2006 at 2:53 PM EST
	gaddamn this man can scream like a monkey with his balls caught in a car door......he bought me a soda

No Picture Derrik Professional	#14 by Derrik at Oct 17, 2006 at 4:23 PM EST
	Just making sure I'm not completely crazy. About this, anyway. I still don't think we should dismiss the "stoned-ass Frank Black writing random words on a cocktail napkin" theory, though.

No Picture Jordan Average	#15 by Jordan Rouse at Nov 27, 2006 at 7:06 PM EST
	Charles Thompson has spoken at length in interviews about his lyric writing saying that usually his lyrics are added as an afterthought to the music and usually chosen mostly for the way they sound and feel thematically and not so much for what they specifically mean. So, trying to pick out any specific meaning for a Pixies song is a bit futile. I think the person who suggested that the lyrics are an inside joke is probably close to the mark. This song fits in well with a lot of Charles' early themes of women of loose morals (whores), obscure culture (Japanese fast food) and generally macabre stuff. I think "rice and beans in horse's lard" specifically refers to the diet Charles has often spoken of subsisting on when he lived for a short time in Puerto Rico. He even named his publishing company Rice and Beans Music because of this. It's hard to tell what he is saying about "our love" with that metaphor, though. Is he saying our love nourishing and simple or is it boring and a bit disgusting? Who knows. I don't think it should matter too much, but it sounds cool which is really the point. By the way, I'm pretty sure that the line written here as "the days are lit like everyone" should actually be "they taste a bit like everyone" referring to her blistered (herpetic?) lips. I have a dvd of a live performance of this song and it seems pretty clear that is what is being said. It seems to fit better with the theme too. You know, her lips taste like she's been unfaithful to him with "everyone."

No Picture John Wanna Be	#16 by John McCarthy at Feb 24, 2007 at 10:00 AM EST
	I agree about the theme of the "cuckolding fetish," but I guess I have a little different intepretation of the "preachy-preach" verse. I always thought he was actually referring to a preacher. I think it's a flashback to when he was young and sexually confused. He went to a preacher for advice (perhaps he was brought up in a religious family, where this would be a natural thing to do), and the preacher initially was supportive ("bought me a soda" as a friendly gesture), but then revealed his true colors by trying to take advantage of him by sexually molesting him. This might be a way of looking back into what kinds of experiences shaped him into the kind of person who still is still kind of a sexual weirdo -- getting off on watching his girlfirend be unfaithful to him and all that. He was betrayed by somebody in a position of trust, someone he confided in, and it only made his sexual confusion worse. The idea that "preachy-preach" refers to the japanese lover and that "molest" means beating up just doesn't seem to fit for me.

No Picture Kev Rhythm Player	#17 by Kev at Apr 27, 2007 at 5:14 PM EST
	Dear God these guys are completely insane...this song is awesome

No Picture pierce Average	#18 by pierce carter at Sep 15, 2007 at 8:32 PM EST
	"Your bones got a little machine" Well,her lover is Japanese... Maybe that's what he's referring to on that line.Other than that,it's pretty obvious what the song is about.

No Picture Mike Average	#19 by Mike at Oct 2, 2007 at 6:09 PM EST
	I always thought that the "our love is rice and beans and horses lard" referred to the line before, "your Irish skin looks Mexican" (great lyric).

No Picture Jon Wanna Be	#20 by Jon Garcia at Oct 9, 2007 at 3:32 PM EST
	Pabloidz... I feel the same way about the Pixies song The Sad Punk... it doesn't loosen my grip on sanity one little bit, no sir.