net lyrics gives it as 'i love you too'
and there's no 'me' audible in that line
however having spent a couple of years as an oral english transcriber and using the same techniques
(repeated listenings with different eq settings)
i would suggest that the net confirmers need to listen more closely for the veiled racial slur

c'mon, it's a song about wanking in a jail cell, we can give the guys a little extra credit for deviance

//mispronounce 'l' as 'r'

your ability to differentiate between certain phonemes is set at a relatively early age. l/r is quite a common thing. They're both alveolar (the tongue is in the vicinity of the ridge behind your top front teeth. 'l' occurs when your tongue touches, a 'r' when it's merely close to it. 'L' doesn't exist in northern maori, but does in southern, with placenames like "little akaloa", "kilmog", and "waihola". There's also some curious blurring, for example Stewart Island may or may not be Rakiula rather than Rakiura.
Simialarly, /f/ in whare is in some dialects a /w/ (you'll hear tariana /w/ rather than /f/), but originally some dialects had a bilabial split fricative, but that appears to have disappeared completely.

// pfft! what I want to know is what that's got to do with turning japanese.

well it's a complicated one.
obviously there exists in this world, a certain school of thought that makes a connection between too much maturbation and blindness.
now if we look at a quote from prince phillip via eddie izzard to some british students in china "don't stay here too long or you'll go all slitty eyed"
it could be inferred that this turning japaneseness(becoming slitty eyed) is the onset of blindness
caused by masturbation-
this makes sense in the context of the previous racial slur

is not "turning japanese" a description of the much-loved phenomenon known as "cumface" -
imagine the moment, make the face; you will have "turned" japanese

//there's still an 'r' at the start of rakiula ;-p
Aha! Cheers, that's what I was looking for.

//turning japaneseness(becoming slitty eyed) is the onset of blindness caused by masturbation-
Wow, learn something new every day. I'm surprised winston hasn't capitalised on the "wanker" call.

// pfft! what I want to know is what that's got to do with turning japanese.

Maybe something to do with your "Jap Eye" - maybe? (Don't tell me you don't know what that is either)

A little related to our discussion of dialect areas in Maori the other day, I just got a new journal this morning which has a paper on pronunciation changes in Maori in the last 100 years, which considers that it's very likely that English is continuing to affect the pronunciation of Maori (as well as slight shifts in grammar, and more pronounced shifts in vocabulary). However, they also consider the possibility that their may be some internal changes in pronunciation, which would be a very good thing, as those sort of changes are most associated with living languages...

- strawpeople, taller than god
I don't believe but maybe it's in the room that you disguised
with sheets for curtains, books all stashed away

- Ian Brown, FEAR, the whole song is cool but especially
fantastic expectations, amazing revelations
final execution and resurrection
free expression as revolution
finding everything and realising

pere ubu-great band

heh I recall david thomas somewhat apologised for that song, on their old website. like uhm, the obvious connotations of "Final Solution". Can't find it now though.

If we're going to talk Jeff, then we have to include the "oh God I loved you" in 'I know we could be so happy', and the "Meet me tomorrow night - or any day you like" - in 'Morning Theft'

*puddles*

I'm a county lineman
on the high line,
on the high line.
So will be my grandson;
there are powerlines
in our bloodlines.

the Decemberists - Engine Driver

The Decemebrists are fantastic lyricists. powerlines in our bloodlines, i love it.

Those are some fine lyrics.

Also on the local tip, in Phoenix Foundation's 'Sister Risk' the bit that goes "If you follow further in the footsteps of gods and monsters gonna get you" surely fits. The way "gods and monsters" sounds like its the object of the first part, but is maybe the subject of the second part as well, or maybe "gods" is the object of the first part and "monsters" the object of the second.

Sort of like portmanteau at a sentence level. I'm sure that's what they thought too. ;p

A song that does a similar to thing to the hanging "like" in 'It All Goes Wrong' is PJ Harvey's 'Is This Desire?' Unlike the Ghostplane moment Polly puts the pauses at points where it could be a complete sentence, so it has this weird effect on first listen.

Favourite bit:

And Joe said
"I feel like a king" and Dawn's neck
And her feet were bare sweetness
In her golden hair

Joe feels like a king and he feels like Dawn's neck? Dawn's feet were bare sweetness? Then once you get used to it the stresses of the song give you the intended meanings in spite of the pauses. It's really cool.

Not to mention that in the chorus she switches from "Is this desire?" as a complete question to "Is this desire enough to lift us up?" OMG. That switch up of "this" as pronoun in the first one and adjective/modifier/intensifier/whatever you know it as in the second is sooo cool.

"or a bivouac tenure"

This line from "Lopsided" sticks in my head all the time. How many songs work the word bivouac in to them?

Oooh that name sounds so familiar, but I can't think of how the song goes.

Thank you limewire!