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I dragged this lake looking for corpses
Dusted for prints, pried up the floorboards
Pieces of planes and black box recorders
Don't lie
I've been preoccupied with these sick, sick senses
That sense DNA on barbed wire fences
Maybe someday I'll find me a suspect
That has no alibi
New Year's Eve was as boring as heaven
I watched flies fuck on channel eleven
There was no one to kiss, nothing to drink
Except some old rotten milk someone left in the sink
There's no ring, there's no ring on the phone anymore
There's no reason to call I passed out on the floor
Smoked myself stupid and drank my insides raisin dry
But at the right place at the right time
I'll be dead wrong and you'll be just fine
And I won't have to quit doing fucked up shit
For anyone but me
At the right place at the right time
It will have been worth it to stand in line
And you won't have to stop
Saying "I love cops" for anyone but me
Your private eye
I dragged this lake looking for corpses
Dusted for prints, pried up the floorboards
Pieces of planes and black box recorders
Don't lie
I've been preoccupied with these sick, sick senses
That sense DNA on barbed wire fences
Maybe someday I'll find me a suspect
That has no alibi
But at the right place at the right time
I'll be dead wrong and you'll be just fine
And I won't have to quit doing fucked up shit
For anyone but me
At the right place at the right time
It will have been worth it to stand in line
And you won't have to stop
Saying "I love cops" for anyone but me
Your private eye
Your private eye
But at the right place at the right time
I'll be dead wrong and you'll be just fine
And I won't have to quit doing fucked up shit
For anyone but me
At the right place at the right time
It will have been worth it to stand in line
And you won't have to stop
Saying "I love cops" for anyone but me
Your private eye
Dusted for prints, pried up the floorboards
Pieces of planes and black box recorders
Don't lie
I've been preoccupied with these sick, sick senses
That sense DNA on barbed wire fences
Maybe someday I'll find me a suspect
That has no alibi
New Year's Eve was as boring as heaven
I watched flies fuck on channel eleven
There was no one to kiss, nothing to drink
Except some old rotten milk someone left in the sink
There's no ring, there's no ring on the phone anymore
There's no reason to call I passed out on the floor
Smoked myself stupid and drank my insides raisin dry
But at the right place at the right time
I'll be dead wrong and you'll be just fine
And I won't have to quit doing fucked up shit
For anyone but me
At the right place at the right time
It will have been worth it to stand in line
And you won't have to stop
Saying "I love cops" for anyone but me
Your private eye
I dragged this lake looking for corpses
Dusted for prints, pried up the floorboards
Pieces of planes and black box recorders
Don't lie
I've been preoccupied with these sick, sick senses
That sense DNA on barbed wire fences
Maybe someday I'll find me a suspect
That has no alibi
But at the right place at the right time
I'll be dead wrong and you'll be just fine
And I won't have to quit doing fucked up shit
For anyone but me
At the right place at the right time
It will have been worth it to stand in line
And you won't have to stop
Saying "I love cops" for anyone but me
Your private eye
Your private eye
But at the right place at the right time
I'll be dead wrong and you'll be just fine
And I won't have to quit doing fucked up shit
For anyone but me
At the right place at the right time
It will have been worth it to stand in line
And you won't have to stop
Saying "I love cops" for anyone but me
Your private eye
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"I dragged this lake looking for corpses
Dusted for prints, pried up the floorboards
Pieces of planes and black box recorders
Don't lie"
Sounds like he's going around trying to figure out if anything has happened. This investigation started by his pre-occupation of his "sick sixth senses". The senses being that something was going on behind his back, but couldn't prove it because she had someone disproving it, alibi.
and "And I've been preoccupied with these sick, sixth senses"
No it ain't buddy!
and "And I've been preoccupied with these sick, sixth senses"
"I dragged this lake looking for corpses
Dusted for prints, pried up the floorboards
Pieces of planes and black box recorders
Don't lie"
I think this is a huge metaphor describing how much work he is doing in finding proof that his ex girlfriend is hanging with other guys. And photos and such dont lie.
"New Year's Eve was as boring as heaven
I watched flies fuck on channel 11
There was no one to kiss, there was nothing to drink
Except some old rotten milk someone left in the sink
And there's no ring on the phone anymore
There's no reason to call I passed out on the floor
Smoked myself stupid and drank my insides raisin dry"
Obviously showing how hard of a time he is having after his loss of her.
"But at the right place at the right time
I'll be dead wrong and you'll be just fine
And I won't have to quit doing fucked up shit
For anyone but me"
I think this means that hes doing harmful stuff such as cutting to himself, and one day either someone will find out such as the law, and he'll be forced to stop unvoluntarily.Or something such as that.
"And at the right place at the right time
It will have been worth it to stand in line
And you won't have to stop
Saying "I love cops" for anyone but me
Your private eye "
Showing how phyco he is, I think the girl knows the guy is stalking him and has called the cops multiple times to get him to stop.
Private eye represents him watching from a distant unnoticably.
"Pulp" by Charles Bukowski.
This is that book in song form.
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with the mtv thing... not all of us live in the US..
or have foxtell shit
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as for this song, no idea what it means
i just no that its kickass, the lyrics are amazingly written and
every alkaline trio song gives me shivers
arggh... now iv gottaa go do that hw iv been putting off all holidays,
thanks for the distraction tho
xxx
I think it's about inner turmoil of someone who doesn't feel that they have lived up to any standards they have set for themselves.
He feels inadequate, feels like he can keep searching and searching, but hasn't been able to find himself yet, ahsn't been able to find proof that he has done anything to better himself... something like that.
I'm a huge fan of Alkaline Trio and their deep, twisted lyrics. They send shivers through my bones...
My sister had sorta a forensic science class, and she refers to this song as her forensics song....
Pretty much you can't look at the surface with Alkaline Trio's songs... they usually have a much deeper meaning than what you think you see. It's most likely not about any sort of cop or P.I or anything, and I can say that based on the fact that Matt is very open about his hatred of cops, that that pretty much covers that...
I love this song, though, and think it was a great way to start off the CD. Always gets me pumped up, and I've been an Alk Trio fan for probably close to 10 years now.... LOVE it!