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Momus - "The Guitar Lesson"

[ from the album "Don't Stop the Night" (1989) ]

The pupil is twelve, attractive, withdrawn

In a midnight blue school uniform

Lips just a little too full for her face

Distant eyes full of space

In her posture no trace of coquette

No defiance

She fingers the frets looking forlorn

Crossing her legs where her tights have been torn

Starts as her mother comes into the room

And the afternoon grows still

And her mother feels chill

Shivers and buttons her coat

I gently correct the curve of her back

And open her book in the now-empty flat

At the classical piece I've had her prepare

And her arms are bare as she plays

And I draw back behind her ear

A few strands of hair gone astray

She shows me her bracelet, the lesson is done

I turn it around between finger and thumb

We sit face to face and it seems to me that

Her face is the face of a cat

And touching the place where her breasts will be

I press my hand flat

She comes into my lap, I turn her around

Her hands clasp my neck and her feet skim the ground

Her skirt travels up under my palm

But the pupil sits looking so calm

As if listening to the distant sound

Of a burglar alarm

What happened next it's hard to recall

The guitar lesson left no traces at all

Now, from afar, it seems to resemble

A strange composition in oil

Of a man, a guitar, and an innocent little girl

Comentarios

10 years ago

David Wright

Thank you Steven Wilson for introducing me to this song and this artist. I had never heard it before. Disturbing but impactful 

11 years ago

IGotAHaloRoundMyHead

The 3/4 waltz time, simple classical guitar tone, and the dissonant "toy" piano notes conjure a mood of childlike innocence. The calliope adds a carefree carnival mood. The mandolin tremolo of Italian love song fame is as contradictory as the teacher’s impropriety. The snare rolls and sawtooth synth build tension. The creepiness is in the descending, alternating maj7-min-maj7-min-min7-min-min-sus2b5 chord progression. This is one of my favorite pieces to play. Make it easy and raise your A to B!

11 years ago

IGotAHaloRoundMyHead

The lyrics brilliantly depict a contemporary interpretation of Balthus’ disturbing subject matter. For more detailed information on this piece as it relates to its inspiration, check out Brice Ezell’s essay A Strange Composition in Oil: Momus, Balthus, and the Girl as Art Object at academia.edu/1599233/A_Strange­_Composition_in_Oil_Momus_Balt­hus_and_the_Girl_as_Art-Object

11 years ago

IGotAHaloRoundMyHead

The Guitar Lesson is from the album Don’t Stop the Night by Momus (working title: Sexual Crimes of the Upper Classes). The subject material covered in this song was inspired by the painting The Guitar Lesson, by Balthus (“Now, from afar, it seems to resemble a strange composition in oil”). The song is about the abuse of power in student/teacher relationships. Though the teacher portrayed on Balthus’ canvas is female, Momus’ teacher is male (“of a man, a guitar, and an innocent little girl.”)

12 years ago

ronnieboy0

I think what people fail to realise that the teacher is a female. That doesnt make it any less bad i know it's a song,that highlights a terrible thing,and it does it by shock tactics it certainly does that,judging by the comments,and momus should be commended for bringing it to peoples attention. he is not singing this type of song for twisted kicks,quite the opposite

12 years ago

Plusmin cares

It's like pokemon video game music with indie folk vocals on top!

12 years ago

Erinvine

I think you say that because you know from personal experience.

13 years ago

joebstarsurfer

I prefer space jews didnt expect that .

13 years ago

thatgoesinthere

@flypizzapop Stop being so fucking literal. Often songs are sung from a character's perspective. Do you go around bashing screenwriters for writing villains? Go tell Stephen King what a sick fuck he is for writing all these legendary monsters and freaks we love to hate. I am in no way okay with pedophilia and was once a little girl myself, but you don't see me making asinine accusations. Also, this version of this song is not so great. The one from "Slender Sherbet" is much better.

13 years ago

flypizzapop

@PennyDreadful1 Yeah, I'm sure from the point of view of the abuser it wasn't abuse. Nothing wrong with "touching the place where her breasts will be". Fucking disgusting.

13 years ago

IntermediateJesus

@erinmerle What is abuse here? Sounds more like statutory rape. Which is wrong but not abusive.

13 years ago

IntermediateJesus

@erinmerle Why is this a top comment? Anyway pedophila seems to be the final frontier of shock lyrics in music. It sure seemed to have worked on you. Satanism and violence and sex is so everyday isnt it? But mention kids and youll get a reaction sure as clockwork. There are so much more terrible things in the world than a song about creepy sexual perversion sung in character. Just keep it in fiction. Hmmph kind off liked girls when I was twelve actually but I digress.

13 years ago

vjosanas

@PrickyKorv Steven's version is much better. very sweet but creepy too

13 years ago

PostcardKittenMeow

@erinmerle Yes. I agree; it's not right at all - though I think there's something a little more complex than that going on in this song - see, for example, Germaine Greer's The Boy. It's off an album full of dubious characters doing, often, very dubious things but, they are characters, NOT Nick Currie.

13 years ago

Erin Merle

@PostcardKittenMeow It doesn't matter what this is referencing. It's a first person graphic account of child sexual abuse paired with kiddy porn images. What is wrong with you people?

13 years ago

jc costa da silva

@PostcardKittenMeow - I wonder why you even bother; people had 22 years to understand this song - those who didn't (or even couldn't grasp the depths of a character) should be left in their own idleness. Anyway, it's a number to be felt (or experienced) rather than to be deemed a confessional pedophile abomination. But anyway, old Nick wasn't the 1st- from time to time I still spot re-stocks of Lolita and Ballad of Melody Nelson, on stalls at my local Tesco-equivalent. Cautionary tales sell.

13 years ago

Aerillis Absentia

Love the song in general, amazing meaning, but Steven Wilson covered it and made it sound a bit better than the original to me. No offense to any Momus fans :P

13 years ago

PostcardKittenMeow

@erinmerle Maybe you missed the Balthus ref. and Death in a French Garden ref.? This is a character not Momus.

13 years ago

Erin Merle

@RoronoaZor0 This bit of literary child porn is not much of a story but you go ahead and tell me what you think I missed.

13 years ago

RoronoaZor0

@erinmerle You did not even listen to the story in this song, did you?

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