I’ve been messing with so many girls / Who could give a damn about who I am / They don’t like my boney body / They don’t like my dirty hair / Or the stuff that I say / Or the stuff that I’m on.Then the tempo slows and the slide guitar is brought out for a bridge of sorts at 1:30, where Owens changes the topic to his mother:
Mamma / She really loved me / Even when I was bad / She'd hold my little hand / And kiss me on the cheek. / And when I cried she would hold me closer / And tell me everything will be alright. / That woman loved me.It's a sincere and sweet sentiment—never once feeling contrived—with Owens concluding that he needs "a woman who loves me," much like his mother. How often do we hear rock songs where narrators conclude that rather than sleep around with pretty girls, they need to find a woman like their mother? It's not easy to pull a topic like that off in a rock song—nor is it necessarily hip—but Owens and company absolutely nail "Honey Bunny." Maybe next time, Girls will record a track about how kids need to stop messing around with fried food, and eat their vegetables. I'd buy it.
Girls - "Honey Bunny" (from Father, Son, Holy Ghost)
"Looking for love," sings Girls' frontman Christopher Owens over a soaring vocal harmony and heavy crunches of guitar fuzz. If Girls were once the little band you kept in your back pocket, the brand-spanking new "Vomit" suggests a stadium might make a more appropriately-sized fit for the San Franciscan's forthcoming second full-length together, Father, Son, Holy Ghost. From the organ play to the spectacular lead guitar and gospel-tinged backup vocals, "Vomit" is an epic track in just about every way. Who would have ever thought the band that wrote "Lust For Life" would one day generate comparisons to the likes of Pink Floyd? Well, it's happening.
