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Great song off a great (And my favorite) Pixies album (Doolittle).
Enjoy
Main figure:
G:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
D:----------------------------------------------------------------------4-4-4--4-4-4--
A:--6-6--6-6-6--4-4-4--4-4-4----------------6-6-6--6-6-6--4-4-4--4-4-4----------------
E:----------------------------2-2-2--2-2-2--------------------------------------------
G:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
D:------------------------------4-4-4--4-4-4------------------------------4-4-4--4-4-4--4--
A:--6-6-6--6-6-6--4-4-4--4-4-4----------------6-6-6--6-6-6--4-4-4--4-4-4-------------------
E:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chorus:
G:---------------------------------------------------
D:--------------------------------------------------- Play it
A:--6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4------------------ 4 times
E:----------------------------------2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--
End:
G:-----------||
D:-----------|| ( /=slide )
A:--6-/-4----||
E:-----------||
Song Structure:
Main Part
Chorus
Main Part
Chorus
Main Part
Chorus
End
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Zim Average |
#1 by Zim Zimson at Aug 11, 2006 at 9:00 PM EST |
| In short, I think this song is about sex. Narratively, he encounters a girl who walks around like she's hot shit, and when she gets in the bed she's more or less "tame" and sort of stripped from her ego..Almost like she puts on a front. just my opinion. | |
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leif Average |
#2 by leif hall at Aug 21, 2006 at 1:26 PM EST |
| i think this song is about a girl he knows.. he thinks she's hot, he listens to her babble, but all he really wants to do is fuck, but alas, she is tame (as in a domesticated animal). he, obviously, is not. i love how he screams the word tame, showing that he himself is anything but. | |
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Gritch Wanna Be |
#3 by Gritch wefwe at Oct 10, 2006 at 12:22 PM EST |
| Frank Black on "Tame": "I don’t want to sound like a male chauvinist, but I have a male perspective, because I am male. ‘Tame’ is about women more than men. But the way some men treat their hair it’s incredible and I can[‘t] understand all that deodorant and stuff. I’ve never related to it. My family’s rather spartan. It’s about putting all that time into sexual presentation. I don’t mean it in a dirty kind of way. Where I live in the city, women spend time presenting themselves and still come out forever bland and mediocre." I can see what he's getting at, but I don't care what he says, not wearing deodorant is kinda sick. | |
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DIPSY Lead Player |
#4 by DIPSY (NOT THE TELETUBBIE) at Nov 20, 2006 at 1:13 PM EST |
| Yea I see what you guys mean with the rape thing. Especially in the secpnd verse, how the raper assualts her body and she falls down and can't really move etc... But I always thought that it's also about how some people, in this case girls, think that beauty goes the whole way. When in fact the shallow people are just lame and have nothing real and interesting to say. | |
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leith Wanna Be |
#5 by leith petrie at Dec 18, 2006 at 6:31 PM EST |
| francis branching off of "girlie" straight from debaser (and andalusya the movie) (hint: hips like CINDERELLA) base of the song=stereotypical girl on screen, and an adolescent's response(rape). now here's the important part francis criticizes for because of her being "tame" (hint: i don't actually know who the "girlie" in the movie is because i havent seen it), but at the same time he is raping her, whether he wants to or not. a little lesson on anyone's character, using an adolescent's fix on women and sex to describe so much more. on another level, in his metaphor of the girl, he is also probably criticising other tame music and movies, and how we all fall for them in life; society planted that with us, even francis. so he's screaming in criticism at her, and and self-criticism of his state. | |
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Bas Average |
#6 by Bas Koningsveld at Dec 25, 2006 at 12:23 AM EST |
| I just love the line "hips like Cindarella" | |
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Connor Rhythm Player |
#7 by Connor Fowler at Jan 10, 2007 at 5:46 PM EST |
| my interpretation on the song, is a scene girl trying to fit in with the others. | |
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Sam Average |
#8 by Sam at Jan 12, 2007 at 4:39 AM EST |
| the lyrics dont seem to match, but when i hear the song, it sounds like it's about a rape, from the perspective of the attacker. especially with all the evil screaming and the heavy breathing. very primal | |
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Danny Boy Lead Player |
#9 by Danny Boy at Jan 14, 2007 at 7:33 AM EST |
| this song makes me hot | |
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Brandon Average |
#10 by Brandon Pennick at Mar 11, 2007 at 5:24 PM EST |
| Just sounds like a lame stripper to me! | |
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Nick Average |
#11 by Nick at Apr 20, 2007 at 9:06 PM EST |
| Sort of amanda. This song is pretty much about a girl who is a partier and a freak but is more of a lover in the bed and not so much of a slut as everyone else kind of thinks of her | |
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Matt Lead Player |
#12 by Matt Cromwell at Jun 4, 2007 at 8:56 AM EST |
| Thinsparation. I love that one line "hips like cinderella" | |
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something.. Average |
#13 by something.. at Oct 3, 2007 at 6:22 AM EST |
| ummm... Possibly about a girl who thinks/tries to be wild but is really just a nice girl at heart. it's hard to say since Frank was constantly smoking copious amounts of pot while writing. | |
