Brick Is Red (track) by Pixies

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Brick Is Red appears on the following album(s) by Pixies:
- Surfer Rosa (track #13) (this album) (1988)
- Surfer Rosa & Come On Pilgrim (track #14) (compilation) (1988)
- Minotaur (track #21) (compilation) (2009)
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Another song clearly about death and more specifically death by hanging as for told by the lines
“A fist is fast and Jimmy's cast hang me
A white moon's hot
The other side's not
Hang me”
The line
“My eyes have turned just the color of
Diamond…”
references death in terms of a persons eyes rolling back to white upon dying
Great closer.

Good song to close and album, and one f my favorite´s
Best track on the album. A perfect closer to a perfect album.
Nice song!
I agree with eclab.

The opening is excellent.
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