My girlfriend told me last night that the site has been boring this week due to a lack of stories involving me being disappointed or in some way destroyed by someone else. That's too bad, because there aren't any stories involving this song either.

There's a five page debate over on SongMeanings over whether he is singing "my sun-eyed girl" or "my cyanide girl" during the chorus. At one point someone suggests he is occasionally saying "last sun up, girl" which makes even less sense. My opinion is that I read once that it was "cyanide" and that has always stuck with me since. The general dark tone of the song makes "my sun-eyed girl" seem absolutely ridiculous, as the rest of the lyrics are rather gothic (as in dark) in tone. Who wants to weigh in?

Apparently the actual liner notes have an ellipsis in place of whatever word it is ("my ... girl"), so I guess Beck purposefully sung a fake word (in the same vein as Mike Doughty) and weighed the syllables differently each time to maximize the potential ambiguousness of the song. Way to go Beck.

Which leads me into my next point: how does Beck do it? He releases introspective arty albums that are awesome, and then radio-friendly Top 40 albums that everyone loves. He can even combine the two, on this song, and give me dark lyrics that I can totally feel and relate to, but wrap them up in a song that makes me wanna bounce around on a sunny day!

Is it because he's a Scientologist? Going by John Travolta (who manages to make people love him, then hate him, then have Tarrantino make people love him again, and then hate him again) and Will Smith (who just sucks) I would not say that consistently high levels of awesomeness run in the Scientologist brood inherently. Beck was "raised" Scientologist so he's not necessarily one of those psychos who sought it out all on his own, so maybe that's the difference between him and all the other wackos.

The point is, above all else, this is clearly a love song.