Mind Your Own Business
Pigface Lyrics
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Can I lick the crumbs from your table
Can I interfere in your crisis
No, mind your own business
No, mind your own business
Can you hear those people behind me
Listen to the distance between us
Why don't you mind your own business
Why don't you mind your own business
Can I interfere in your crisis
can I have a taste of your ice cream
Can I have a taste of your ice cream
can I lick the crumbs from your table
Can I lick the crumbs from your table
can I interfere in your crisis
No, mind your own business
No, mind your own business
Listen to the distance between us
Can you hear those people behind me
Looking at your feelings inside me
No, mind your own business
Can you hear those people behind me
Looking at your feelings inside me
Listen to the distance between us
No, mind your own business
Why don't you mind your own business
Why don't you mind your own business
Why don't you mind your own business
The lyrics of Pigface's "Mind Your Own Business" is a clear message to people to stay out of other people's affairs. The song title itself is a common expression used to tell someone to stop interfering in someone else's personal matters. The first verse begins with a request to taste someone's ice cream and lick crumbs from their table, which can be seen as a metaphor for the invasion of personal space. The chorus repeats the imperative phrase to mind one's own business, indicating that the recipient is not welcome to interfere in the singer's life.
The second verse takes the message further by pointing out that other people are paying attention to the situation between the singer and the person being addressed. The singer tells the person to listen to the distance between them, meaning the emotional and physical space between them, and to recognize that their presence is not welcome. The chorus repeats the imperative to mind one's own business, and the song ends with a final plea to stop interfering.
Overall, the lyrics suggest a frustration and annoyance with people who overstep their bounds and invade other people's personal lives. It's a reminder that everyone should respect each other's boundaries and stay out of each other's business unless expressly invited to interfere.
Line by Line Meaning
Can I have a taste of your ice cream
May I partake in something that belongs to you?
Can I lick the crumbs from your table
May I consume the remnants of your meal?
Can I interfere in your crisis
May I insert myself into your personal problems?
No, mind your own business
Sorry, please tend to your own affairs.
Can you hear those people behind me
Are you aware of the individuals following me?
Looking at your feelings inside me
Observing the emotions I experience in reaction to you.
Listen to the distance between us
Perceive the amount of space between us.
Why don't you mind your own business
Please focus on your own matters instead.
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: ALAN LEO RIGGS, BETHAN PETERS, JULIE SALE, KELVIN ERIC KNIGHT, ROSLIND ALLEN
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
heygofuckadog
Don't like it? Don't fucking listen. Why does everyone have to start shit just because they don't like a song? Get over it. People have different tastes.
Existential Erasure
I saw a commercial with this song. How the world turns...
p caetano
nice cover
Unity Ostara
This song used to piss my Kazakh friend off alot.
J B
wow!
tuchesuavae
Fallon Bowman!
IITallikaII
It was a joke. More about how everything on the radio is shit. I like PigFace.
heygofuckadog
Makes sense, knowing that you meant it in jest. My bad. See a lot of that on youtube, though.
Clever Ivy
Interesting
Positron
hecc ya pogface