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Log in Sign Up. Save Word. Definition of pixie Entry 1 of 2. Definition of pixie Entry 2 of 2. Examples of pixie in a Sentence Noun leave a dish of milk and some bread out for the pixies Adjective resorted to some pixie high jinks to liven up the office party.
Fire away! That's the sense that I understand in 'Gouge away': 'don't hesitate to gouge my eyes out', 'feel free to gouge my eyes out', or 'gouge to your heart's content', as edwingill says. The sense of invitation is picked up in the next line: 'you can stay all day if you want to'. It also fits in with the irony and bathos that are so characteristic of the Pixies' lyrics. Yotun New Member French. SrCaronte New Member Spanish. I'm pretty sure we can't translate 'Gouge' here without paying attention to the rest of the song meaning.
As it's said in Urban Dictionary, Gouge in slang means: "to be high, drugged, stoned". I agree the "away" part here is kind of an ironic invitation. All the song is a metaphor about the use of heroin in a critical way.
The autor Frank Black has always been against drugs use and all his songs are always metaphoricals, not to be taking literally. Some verses are cristal clear about that issue: Gouge away meaning: ok, get high in an ironic way. You can gouge away Stay all day if you use heroin, you can't do anything the rest of the day because of the effects os this substance. If you want to. Sleeping on your belly: to be sleepy is a main effect of heroin.
You break my arms: Addicts inject it usually on their arms. You spoon my eyes: they use spoons to dissolve the dose. The section about de Samson myth been chained on a pilar symbolizes to be forced to stop doing drugs and the destruction afterwards "I break the walls", etc. Is very important here the verse "I kill US all": the addict destroys himself, but also the people surrounded him.
The everyday belief in a nether world populated by fairies, elves, pixies, leprechauns, goblins and the like was commonplace in medieval Europe, as was the belief in their interaction with the real world. A letter to the Scottish poet William Drummond, dated October , contained the following:. As for the Fairy Queen, of whom you wrote to me, her Apparitions of late have bewitched so many, that I find sundry ready to dance with the fairies.
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