Black Francis told Esquire,
It’s a personal-history song about an old college roommate of mine. I think I have a lot more patience and understanding about mental-health issues now, as a middle-aged man, but when you’re young and you run into that, especially when it’s intimate like when you’re livi...
[Verse 1]
José Jones
Told me alone his story
He got friends like Paco Picopiedra
La muñeca he receives on his set
[Chorus]
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones!
Crack, crack!
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones!
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones!
(Wup, wup!)
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones!
[Verse 2]
Please forgive me, José Jones
You need these walls for your own
I'm movin' out of this hospedaje
I'm afraid you'll cut me, boy
[Bridge]
Thirty miles by
Hundred miles by stinkin' island
Por confiar en crushing automovil
Chasin' voices he receives in his head
[Chorus]
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones!
(Whoop, whoop!)
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones!
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones!
Crack, crack!
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones!
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones!
(Whoop, whoop!)
Crack, crack, Crackity Jones!
Crackity Jones was written by Frank Black.
Crackity Jones was produced by Gil Norton.
Pixies released Crackity Jones on Tue Apr 18 1989.