Gigantic

Album: Surfer Rosa (1988)
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  • And this I know his teeth as white as snow
    What a gas it was to see him
    Walk her everyday into a shady place
    With her lips she said

    She said, "Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul
    Let's have a ball
    Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul
    Let's have a ball
    Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul
    Let's have a ball"

    Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
    A big, big love
    Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
    A big, big love

    Lovely legs there are
    What a big black mass, what a hunk of love
    He'll walk her every day into a shady place
    Like the dark, but I'd want him

    "Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul
    Let's have a ball
    Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul
    Let's have a ball
    Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul
    Let's have a ball"

    Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
    A big, big love
    Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
    A big, big love

    Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
    A big, big love

    Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
    A big, big love
    A big, big love
    A big, big love
    A big, big love
    A big, big love
    A big, big love
    A big, big love
    A big, big love
    A big, big love Writer/s: Charles Thompson, Kim Deal
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 7

  • Paul from The Albee Square MallIt's not about a dog, it's about a Black guy with a big member. Hence, the stated inspiration from "Crimes Of The Heart" where one of the film's plots involves a woman having an affair with a Black teenager.
  • Molly from Baldwin, Nyi don't get how this song is about a dog...
  • John from Boston, MaOK - The lyrics to this song were written in my living room. Charles already named it Gigantic and asked Kim to write the rest. It was first going to be about a mall. "The Mall The Mall" instead of "Hey Paul Hey Paul". My friend John came up with "big black mess" and "big big love". We had seen Crimes Of The Heart a few weeks earlier and Kim knitted the whole thing together. Another good fact: in the studio, they put the guitar amps in the bathroom to get the really big arena sound. Brilliant.
  • Mike from Newburgh, NyActually it is NOT about a man; it is about a dog. Listen to the song carefully and it will be obvious...
  • Jenny from Streamwood, IlKim Deal sang the song because she wrote it, as stated above. And anyway Black Francis (er.. Frank Black is it now?) sang in the background.
  • Patty from China Town, United KingdomI heard that she used "gigantic" becuase of the black guy (I'm not going to paint the picture), glad to hear otherwise... it was freaking me out.
  • Andy from Norwich, EnglandThe best song by far on the album 'Wave Of Mutilation'. But why did the woman sing not the man?

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