Glorious

Lyrics

Da da da da da da da ah

Hold my breath for three more year

Yeah, ye ye ye ye ye ye ye years

On my own on saturdays aaaahh

It’s glorious

It’s glorious

We were tired from the tea, aaaah

Scrabbled when we slept

Through the window came the rain aaaah

It’s glorious

It’s glorious

It’s glorious

It’s glorious

It’s glorious

It’s glorious

Being tired from the tea aaaah

Hold my breath for three more year

Yeah, ye ye ye ye ye ye ye years

On my own on saturdays aaaahh

It’s glorious

It’s glorious

It’s glorious

It’s glorious

Meaning

“It’s difficult to explain, but… Do you know the phenomenon that older children do things with young children that they are not actually allowed to do? Call it sexual exploration, curiosity… not sexual assault or anything, that’s not what I mean. Glorious is about someone who had that happen to them and who now has pleasant memories of it as an adult.” – Kim – OOR magazine 1990

“Glorious is about a person who’s now grown up, but still has memories of being with their Aunt. But their Aunt would take them upstairs to his bedroom… It’s the vaguest of memories, but they know it was kinda naughty, but they liked it anyway. It’s kind of ‘child molestation is A-okay with me!’ No, it’s not like that at all!” – Kim – Melody Maker 1990

Doe

Lyrics

Top this
Da-dah, da-dah, da-dah-dah…
Ah huh tripping

I walk to where he’s sitting
It’s so salty [2x]
(He knows) It’s good, it’s real, it’s pretty
It’s so salty Timmy [2x]

(He said) Doe [3x]

Dared leave
We’ve burned the field completely
Ahhh… last light
I feel it’s real, it’s pretty
It’s so salty Timmy [3x]

(He said) Doe [3x]

Meaning

“At one point I fantasized about giving Jesus a blow job, and then the phrase ‘It’s so salty, Jesus’ came to mind. I started singing that. But I thought: I can’t possibly sing this in public, you know? (laughs) So I made it Timmy.” – Kim

“It’s about this couple who are schizophrenics who’re taking their medication and who sneak out of their parents’ houses to go out for the night. It’s a pretty average story, but instead of nice cozy highschool kids, they’re both on medication and flipping out and going to burn the entire town down. But they don’t really know they’re doing anything wrong. They just say ‘Doe’ like Bambi.” – Kim

“I didn’t tell them the truth on that (Kim told one journalist that it was about a schizophrenic couple flipping out on medication). It is the truth, it’s about thorazine and lithium, OK? But the thing it’s about really is a blow job, giving somebody a blow job.
‘It’s so salty’ – I was eating a nacho chip and I went, ‘Jesus! It’s so salty!’ And I thought, Oh cool, wouldn’t it be neat if I pretended I was giving Jesus a blow job? And my chorus would be, ‘It’s so salty, Jesus/It’s so salty, Jesus’.
But then I thought there’s no way I could do that. There’s just something about my little Christian heart inside of me, I just can’t sing that. so then I changed it to Timmy And the rest of the story is about going with a guy and burning a field down.
And you know if you’ve ever given a guy a blow job-sorry, but if you’ve ever given a guy a blow job – some guys are just so… jerky, and they’re egotists, and they’re just weird, OK?
And this one time it was just gross-and it was like he was God, he was Jesus. And it’s like Bambi, you know, doe, d-o-e-like a timid shy little woodsy woodsman character like myself. And that was what I was talking about, how they just like pat your head, and it’s like ‘Doe, doe, but I couldn’t tell the journalist that.” – Kim, Sounds, October 1990

Hellbound

Lyrics

It lives

In folds of red and steamy

It lives

In misery

We’re hellbound hellbound (hellbound hellbound)

Hellbound hellbound (hellbound hellbound)

We’re hellbound hellbound hellbound hellbound (hellbound hellbound hellbound hellbound )

Oh!

Oh we’ve fallen

Falling down

Down down down down down

It lives

Despite the knives eternal

It lives

Marry me!

We’re hellbound hellbound (hellbound hellbound)

Hellbound hellbound (hellbound hellbound)

We’re hellbound hellbound hellbound hellbound (hellbound hellbound hellbound hellbound )

Oh!

Oh we’ve fallen

Falling down

Down, down down, down down

Down, down down, down down

Down, down down, down down

It lives

In misery!

We’re hellbound hellbound (hellbound hellbound)

Hellbound hellbound (hellbound hellbound)

We’re hellbound hellbound hellbound (hellbound hellbound hellbound)

We’re hellbound hellbound (hellbound hellbound) etc

Meaning

“That’s about an abortion that lives, but it’s not. I mean that’s exactly what the song is about, but what I’m singing about isn’t a baby on the ground who I just aborted or something. Like when you’ve gone out with a guy and you’ve just created this mess. It was horrible, just miserable, and about the two of us creating this abortion that lived. Whether or not it’s biological, but emotionally.” – Kim

“Why abortion? It’s kinda like a heavy metal hymnal, ‘We’re all hellbound’. The song’s basically about making a mess. I just had abortion on my mind, not for any particular reason.” – Kim

Fortunately Gone

Lyrics

I wait for you, in heaven

On this perfect string of love

And drink your soup of magpies in a pottery bowl

That looks as I am now, brown round and warm

Chime on, rain, wet and ankle, toes or two

Sweep the other drops upon your head, just like it did today

Fortunately Gone, I wait for you

Meaning

“It was inspired by the death of my brother’s wife two years ago.” – Kim in 1990

Iris

Opened

Lyrics

Walking on his highways

We leave the land

And float inside the dark, black water

Robin flies again

Robin flies again

She flew low over the highways

And I saw the wind

Blowing back her Barbie doll hair

Robin flies again

Robin flies again

And in a kitchen in Kentucky

She thinks she’s Peter Pan

And in the bottom of a concrete basement

Robin flies again

Robin flies again

Meaning

The song is based on drummer Britt Walford’s dream:

“I’m not sure how much of this you can print but he’s this 19-year-old teenager who picks his nose and burps and stuff like that. Anyway, he was telling me this dream and using words like boobies and titties and using the same language that old men do in porno films. I thought it was so weird. The song is his dream, verbatim” – Kim

Only In 3’s

Lyrics

Oh…

Back burns are green and off for me and her
He’s an ape, he’s an ape, he’s an angel

Only in 3’s
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Only in 3’s, oh, yeah
Only in 3’s
Oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh…

Hay for a bed with her on my head
And you are the king
The same king who will burn me

Only in 3’s
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Only in 3’s, oh, yeah
Only in 3’s
Oh, oh, oh, oh

Meaning

“Just about every man I’ve talked to lately says that’s the best combination in bed, two women and one man. I don’t know how the conversation keeps turning to that subject, but… I am extremely annoyed by that arrogant attitude, that one woman at a time is not enough for those bloated figures.” – Kim

“It’s all about threesomes, or perhaps a threesome in particular.” – Josephine

“‘Only In 3’s’ is… well, like Jo says, a menage a trois. I must have seen movies and heard people talking aboutmenage a trois a lot over a period of a few weeks and just thought, ‘What is this?’ I don’t think there’s a lot of it going around, I think there’s a lot of hoping.” – Kim

Lime House

Lyrics

I walk by

I fall down

Meaning

Limehouse refers to the room in which Sherlock Holmes used opium. When she was in London, Kim went to look at the address where the master detective allegedly lived according to his creator.

“It’s about an opium den”

“It’s about Sherlock Holmes. He had a problem with opium. It’s about being in the warm dark place with pillows, daydreaming 24 hours a day. It sounds great for three days, doesn’t it?” – Kim

Metal Man

Lyrics

I don’t know how old I was

But it was a ’65 pickup

I was lying on the ground

With flat iron bars over my head

One silver drop is all you need

To put a hole in your head at 2000 degrees

That’s right man, you be the Metal Man

At 2000 degrees

And that’s hot

That’s hot

And over my head

The hot wire was sparking

I got something down on my chest

And it began to bubble

I was repairing my three on a tree

When a drip dropped down on me

That’s right man, I’m the Metal Man

At 2000 degrees

And that’s hot

That’s hot

Meaning

Seems to be about fixing a ’65 pickup truck.