And this I know: his teeth as white as snow What a gas it was to see him Walk her every day into a shady place With her lips she said, "Hey, Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul, let's have a ball." (x3) Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic, a big big love (x2) Lovely legs, they're a What a big black mess, what a hunk of love Walk her every day into a shady place He's dark, but I want him "Hey, Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul, let's have a ball." (x3) Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic, a big big love (x4) A big big love, a big big love (x4) Black Francis/Mrs John Murphy (p) 1988 4-A-DKim Deal said she took inspiration from a 1986 Bruce Beresford movie, "Crimes Of The Heart", in which Sissy Spacek is a married woman who falls in love with a 15-year old black guy. Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard were also in this movie. (translated from a Spanish article)
"A good chord progression, very Lou-Reed influenced. I'd had the word 'gigantic' in my mind just because the chord progression seemed very big to me." - Black Francis in SELECT, October 1997
Covered by Reel Big Fish, Belle & Sebastian, Frames, Pavement and Hippos.
On the 1988 Fort Apache christmas party, J. Mascis from Dinasour Jr. played a version of Gigantic with Kim and David. No info yet. WIP