Sung by: John Flansburgh and John Linnell
Length: 0: 0
On Albums: Back to Skull
Quoth Matt Keeley <mrme@eskimo.com>:
Well, I guess you might be interested in my interp. of the song "Ondine"from Back to Skull/Shell.
It's from the view of the victim after a murder.
Ondine
You won
All she left behind was an unloaded gun
And my face
Is blushing
For all the things she's doneThe guy has been shot in the face. The gun tells us that the proejectile method was used, and the "blushing face" is the face all red with blood and guts and other fun stuff.
Ondine
Back up
Run over my body with your pickup truck
And finish
What you started
Because I'm done
I searched the whole room over
To find these words
She said
I had the strangest dream
I dreamed I killed you again
Don't make me kill you again
'Cause I couldn't bear to kill you againNow the corpse is taunting her by saying in her "strangest dream" to come and finish him off, even tho' he's "done". Ondine is tortured by such dreams and is calling to make them stop, and she doesn't want to kill him again.
And then the last verse is merely referring to the fact that she did it so cleanly ("couldn't take away a souvenir") that she and the victim are the only ones who know who it was, and thus, she is being driven insane by the guilt, and doesn't want to go through the pain of the guilt that would follow if she "killed him again".
Tear it apart as thou wilst.