The Placenta Falls to the Floor

Bones McHorror

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Perfume Genius has begun 2022 with a remix of “Lightning Crashes” from Live’s 1994 alt-rock classic Throwing Copper. It is in some ways a radical reworking, and in other ways not so much — which is to say Mike Hadreas has expanded the song to seven and a half minutes and turned it into a deep meditation on Ed Kowalczyk’s memorable line “The placenta falls to the floor.” Hadreas writes, “What if the angel never opened their eyes? What if the confusion never set in? Something to think about as we start this new year.” Oh now feel it coming back again… and again… and again…


 
I don't often hear the word 'placenta' in lyrics. The only other example coming to mind is this:

 
Bones McHorror said:
Perfume Genius has begun 2022 with a remix of “Lightning Crashes” from Live’s 1994 alt-rock classic Throwing Copper. It is in some ways a radical reworking, and in other ways not so much — which is to say Mike Hadreas has expanded the song to seven and a half minutes and turned it into a deep meditation on Ed Kowalczyk’s memorable line “The placenta falls to the floor.” Hadreas writes, “What if the angel never opened their eyes? What if the confusion never set in? Something to think about as we start this new year.” Oh now feel it coming back again… and again… and again…


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I did not know @Bones McHorror and Perfume Genius were the same person.
 
I saw Live in their hey day. I wasn’t a fan but they out on one hell of a good show and PJ Harvey opened and she killed.

This is one of those songs that got such heavy air play that I can’t take hearing it or a remix again.
 
Does the five second rule apply to the placenta? It seems like it would be safe to eat it anyway, sautéing should get hot enough.
 
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