All for me
Trek across the space
It'll be just like they say
Oo, oo
Yeah
Month number three
He has no memory
Of flyers in the night
Oo, oo
Yeah
My manta ray is all right(4X)
My mother too
A fish from Mon Shamoo(?)
Above my head tonight
Oo, oo
Yeah
My manta ray is all right(7X)
(While Black Francis screams "All right!")
All right
It's a code word for UFO's. His family claims they were part of a UFO sighthing when he was a baby.
Here's a link to a reference http://dag.wiee.rs/debaser/lyrics/Manta_Ray.php that has a little bit more about his limited experience (he sounds disappointed by that).
Here's a link to a reference http://dag.wiee.rs/debaser/lyrics/Manta_Ray.php that has a little bit more about his limited experience (he sounds disappointed by that).
On a side note, since there are a lot of comments about UFOs and underwater here, I feel like I should mention there's a lesser known phenomenon called USOs - Unidentified Submerged Objects. These incidents are like UFOs but the objects are underwater. In some cases, the object is seen flying then entering the water or leaving the water then flying. The Shag Harbor Incident in Canada 1967 may be the...
On a side note, since there are a lot of comments about UFOs and underwater here, I feel like I should mention there's a lesser known phenomenon called USOs - Unidentified Submerged Objects. These incidents are like UFOs but the objects are underwater. In some cases, the object is seen flying then entering the water or leaving the water then flying. The Shag Harbor Incident in Canada 1967 may be the most famous case of a USO.
"A fish from ocean blue"?
Manta rays (the fish) look really weird, iwonder if the UFOin the sky looked like a ray in the sea?
yea i think its "a fish from ocean blue" too.
absolutely great song.
Great pixies song that deserve more recongition
Black Francis's code word for UFO indeed. Awesome song.
Love this song... Have a grat vibe/groove thing goin on... Think I also like it cos charlie boy nuts out in it at the end..
Charles had an infatuation with the roswell incident. The Spacecraft involved in the incident was alleged to be of manta ray shaped. At three months of age his mother claimed to see a UFO of this shape. Charles kept things simple, writing about things he was interested in or knew about. This song ponders if the craft journeyed through space just to see him and notes that he cant remember and only knows through others recollections
WHAAAAA!?! great song.
I love the little acrobatic connect-the-dots thing he does with the vocals in this song.