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smoke was pulled like ribbons
from the windows of the car.
I followed the flash of silver from your teeth
above the tarmac the lights were icy-green......
Buried in patterns in your chest.
a quiet shimmering:
little dipper, tiara-shine, song bird shivery, thin thin dime
chorus: smoke like ribbons
songs were pulled like ribbons
from the window of the car... lost
along the shoulders of the highway.
the cake walk
dancers unwind from their spin
singing "lawty lawty loved him."
stark don't give a flat fuck
chorus
from the windows of the car.
I followed the flash of silver from your teeth
above the tarmac the lights were icy-green......
Buried in patterns in your chest.
a quiet shimmering:
little dipper, tiara-shine, song bird shivery, thin thin dime
chorus: smoke like ribbons
songs were pulled like ribbons
from the window of the car... lost
along the shoulders of the highway.
the cake walk
dancers unwind from their spin
singing "lawty lawty loved him."
stark don't give a flat fuck
chorus
Lyrics submitted by mahargrepooc13
Track duration: 05:15
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Also, This song is not about Isaac Brock because he did not write any of the lyrics for his Ugly Casanova side project, nor did any of the other modest mouse band members. They received the music from a fan who, out of chance, played his music for them one night at a show. The band was touched by the depressing expression on the man's face after he played his songs and therefore, Ugly Casanova was created.
Other than that, I think most people in this comment thread interpreted everything else pretty accurately.
lordy, lordy, loved him
stars don't give a flat fuck
i think it's saying that the universe is uncaring about his or the cake walk dancers broken hearts.
from reading the lyrics, the song appears to be about a man who has said goodbye to someone he cares about who is leaving on an airplane.
and he stops at a bar or strip club on the way home.
Lawtey Lawtey loved him
Starke don't give a flat fuck
John Orth (along with his band Holopaw) lives in Gainesville, Fl. For a while, Isaac Brock lived here too, and he saw Holopaw play a bunch of times. They got to know eachother, and Isaac Brock asked John Orth to work on Ugly Casanova with him, which he did.
Point is, Starke and Lawtey are both neighboring cities. And Gainesville's a small town, so they're not a long way away (Starke also has a major prison that Gainesville feeds into). Even after I moved to Gainesville, I didn't really think about it until I saw both names on a road sign and made the connection to this song. (Holopaw itself is named after a city in Florida, which makes this seem even more likely.)
Is that a coincidence? I'm not really sure. But the line in the song doesn't make much sense when you think of it as referring to the two towns. That's all I got out of it.
above the tarmac the lights were icy-green
Buried in patterns in your chest.
a quiet shimmering
This is describing the feeling of being under the influence of some kind of stimulant, perhaps accompanied by someone else and driving. Everything is so filled with kinetic energy, quietly shimmering and wonderful, buried and pounding in your chest. Icy-green.