Annie Clark has said that this is her personal favorite track on the record.
She used to introduce this as a song about murder and in this interview she describes how she was inspired by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
I was inspired by this track off Abattoir Blues as I was arranging Your Lips Are R...
[Verse 1]
Your lips are red
My face is red from reading your red lips
My hands are black
My hands are black inside this downtown taxi cab
This city's red
This city's red from riding us into the ground
This city's black
This city's black from all the ashes in downtown
(Ashes in downtown, ashes in downtown)
[Verse 2]
My face is drawn
My face is drawn on with this number 2 pencil
Your face is drawn
Your face is drawn from drawing words right from my lips
(Words right from my lips, words right from my lips)
[Verse 3]
Your lips are red
My face is red from reading your red lips
My hands are red
My hands are red from sealing your red lips
(Sealing your red lips, sealing your red lips)
[Outro]
Your skin's so fair
Your skin's so fair, it's not fair
Your skin's so fair
Your skin's so fair, it's not fair
Your skin's so fair
(You remind me)
Your skin's so fair, it's not fair
Your skin's so fair
(You remind me)
Your skin's so fair, it's not fair
(You remind me)
Your skin's so fair, it's not fair
(City graffiti)
Your skin's so fair
(You remind me)
Your skin's so fair, it's not fair
(City graffiti)
Oh
(You remind me)
Your skins so fair, it's not fair
(City graffiti)
Your skin's so fair
(You remind me)
Your skins so fair, it's not fair
(City graffiti)
Your Lips Are Red was written by St. Vincent & Daniel Hart.
Your Lips Are Red was produced by Brian Teasley & St. Vincent & Daniel Farris.
St. Vincent released Your Lips Are Red on Tue Jul 10 2007.