92°
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Apr. 21, 19861 viewer5.1K views
92° Lyrics
[Sample from "It Came from Outer Space" (1953)]
Did you know that more murders are commited at 92 degrees Fahrenheit than any other temperature? I read an article once. Lower temperatures, people are easygoing. Over 92, it's too hot to move. But just 92 - people get irritable!
The day drags by like a wounded animal
The approaching disease, 92 degrees
The blood in our veins and the brains in our head
The approaching unease, 92 degrees
Long ago in the headlines, they noticed it too
But too late for the loved ones, and nearly for you
Shaky lines on the horizon
Snaky thoughts invade each person
Watch the red line creeping upwards
Watch the sanity line weaken
The volcanic depths of Hades' ocean
Bubble under, these crazed eruptions
It wriggles and writhes and bites within
Just below the sweating skin
I wondered when this would happen again
Now I watch the red line, reach that number again
The blood in our veins and the brains in our head
Drink the water with jagged glass
Eat the cactus with bleeding mouth
Not 91 or 93
But 92 Fahrenheit degrees
Drink the water with jagged glass
Eat the cactus with bleeding mouth
Not 91 or 93
But 92 Fahrenheit degrees
Did you know that more murders are commited at 92 degrees Fahrenheit than any other temperature? I read an article once. Lower temperatures, people are easygoing. Over 92, it's too hot to move. But just 92 - people get irritable!
The day drags by like a wounded animal
The approaching disease, 92 degrees
The blood in our veins and the brains in our head
The approaching unease, 92 degrees
Long ago in the headlines, they noticed it too
But too late for the loved ones, and nearly for you
Shaky lines on the horizon
Snaky thoughts invade each person
Watch the red line creeping upwards
Watch the sanity line weaken
The volcanic depths of Hades' ocean
Bubble under, these crazed eruptions
It wriggles and writhes and bites within
Just below the sweating skin
I wondered when this would happen again
Now I watch the red line, reach that number again
The blood in our veins and the brains in our head
Drink the water with jagged glass
Eat the cactus with bleeding mouth
Not 91 or 93
But 92 Fahrenheit degrees
Drink the water with jagged glass
Eat the cactus with bleeding mouth
Not 91 or 93
But 92 Fahrenheit degrees
Shaky lines on the horizon
Snaky thoughts invade each person
Not 91 or 93
But 92 Fahrenheit degrees
Snaky thoughts invade each person
Not 91 or 93
But 92 Fahrenheit degrees
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Genius Annotation
The seventh track on Tinderbox by Siouxsie and the Banshees opens with a sample from the 1953 science fiction film It Came From Outer Space, describing the fact that “more murders are committed at 92 degrees Fahrenheit than any other temperature”.
This song plays off of that idea, and presents an apocalyptic narrative of the temperature climbing to 92 degrees Fahrenheit and staying there, which ultimately results in the total downfall of civilisation as people are driven insane by the hot temperatures.
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- 3.This Unrest
- 5.Cannons
- 6.Party’s Fall
- 7.92°
- 8.Land’s End
- 10.An Execution
- 11.Lullaby
- 12.Umbrella
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April 21, 1986
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