Bagboy Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I had a bad reaction to your public hobby writings
I get no satisfaction from your very recent sightings
Cover your breath
Cover your teeth
Cover your breath
Polish your speech

[Verse 2]
Like when I hear the sound of feet slapping on the runway
Like a small bird pretty while it's crapping on the new day
Cover your breath
Polish your speech
Cover your breath
Polish your teeth

[Verse 3]
So disappointed I was that I had made small talk with you
I'm not feeling your buzz I only smell your crock of stew
Polish your teeth
Alter your breath
Alter your teeth
Cover your breath

[Hook]
Bag boy bag boy bag boy bag boy
[Verse 4]
She had some beauty and manners but you look like a bug
Migrations of their type are such good planners and not smug
Cover your breath
Alter your speech
Cover your breath
Alter your speech

[Hook]

[Verse 5]
You are proselytizing alone
Listening to the voice with your ears
You have regurgitated the tone
Now sat in your tract for many years
Picked up from dead things that you licked
It's a feedback loop you can't evict
Cover your breath
Cover your teeth
Cover your breath
Polish your speech
Cover your breath
Polish your speech
Cover your breath
Polish your teeth
Polish your teeth
Alter your breath
Alter your teeth
Cover your breath
Cover your breath
Alter your speech
Cover your breath
Alter your speech

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Genius Annotation

Here’s what Pixies frontman Black Francis had to say about “Bagboy”:

“The lyrics, coincidentally, were composed at a Starbucks Coffee in Harvard Square in Cambridge, about a hundred feet from where, 25 years ago, I composed some of the lyrics to an old Pixies song called ‘Break My Body.’ Twenty-five years later, some Starbucks in Harvard Square…I thought that was kind of interesting. The music for the song has been around for a few years. There are some demos I made with Joey and David a few years ago in Los Angeles, related to a film idea that still has yet to see the light of day, although work on the music continued. So a lot of the musical idea had been kicking around for awhile. It’s pretty simple, kind of a blues-based, two-note kind of thing, really.”

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Credits
Produced By
Written By
Backing Vocals
Recorded At
Rockfield Studios/ Sonelab/ The Autumn Den
Release Date
April 19, 2014
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