"Long Snake Moan" By Polly Jean Harvey

[*Taut*Datura*]

Anyone have ANY IDEA on this one??? I sure as hell don't. Awesome song though.
"Mmm Hmm..."

[dozey]

Hey! LSM is such an angry song! I think it's about coming out of a relationship where you've been treated really badly, that point where you begin to change and get angry and happy to be free all at the same time. I see it as partly about change and shedding you're skin like a snake. "Call me Lazarus..." is about being-reborn, bought back from the dead. An then thinking of all the terrible things you could do to torture you're ex! Like if he's with a new woman you wish he'd "die of pleasure", she wants to drown him in parts, "in my dreaming you'll be drowning". It's a bit like a Greek myth in that she also says the Gods are on her side, and now she's turned the tables and is trying to punish him with voodoo etc.,

...It just rocks!