Story Behind The Song
Coyote Kisses is about falling for the wild card dharacter, the man who is dangerous yet attractive because of that very danger. Its about lust and passion and wild love that ultimately turns into destructive love and betrayals with either physical or emotional damage and violence occuring. Its about how wild passion can destroy and spin out of control and its also about not following your instincts. How a character like Coyote in the guise of a man or lover can be a trickster character and who can prey on you and destroy every bone in your body or every part of your spirit and yet he gets you through guile and seduction and its the very seduction that makes you let him into your world with open arms and wide eyes. The message is to be aware and to watch your instincts carefully and to choose well in love or there can be serious consequences. It is also a very sexual song full of wild abandon and animal imagery and howling out passions and expressing yourself with animal like force and desires.
Song Description
Coyote Kisses is a song about being taken in by a charmer and by lust and attraction and then subsequently realising this person is bad for you but not being able to pull away until its too late and you have been emotionally abused or otherwise and are broken down by them. Its a song about dangerous passionalte yet ultimately dysfunctional love.
Song Length |
4:32 |
Genre |
Folk - Alternative, Country - Contemporary |
Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
Mood |
Moving, Restless |
Subject |
Wild Animals, Bad Love |
Similar Artists |
Edie Brickell, Joan Baez |
Language |
English |
Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
"COYOTE KISSES"
All © Rhíannon 2003
Coyote comes calling me in the night
I hear his familiar wolf cry through the lamplight
And he knows I?m wide open, my guard is off
And my life?s a token of his affection
*Chorus
He will break every bone in your body
He will crack you inside your shell
Under your skin, you?ll let him in
And he will take you down
The joker is always wild in the pack
He ruffles you and then he deals you right off the track
He dogs your day and he trails your night
His paw prints under your skin?he scratches you
Yet you let him in
I had no control, whatever was in my soul
I wanted him and he reeled me in
And he took me down
Coyote Kisses on my neck, my blood heats to red
I am not running as he claws my path into his bed
Full Moon lights up his room as we howl in the night
Passion?s awake?Coyote Takes me?.
In his velvet paws
His hidden claws?
He takes me down.
*Chorus
And He will take every sigh of your body
He will crack you inside your shell
Under your skin
You?ll let him in
Beware of the Coyote frown
He will break every home in your body
He will crack you inside your shell?..
Under my skin
I let him in
And he took me down
This man he took me down
Coyote takes you down.