Lyrics for Mexican Wine as interpreted by rjbucs28

Mexican Wine Lyrics
He was killed by a cellular phone explosion
They scattered his ashes across the ocean
The water was used to make baby lotion
The wheels of promotion were set into motion
(chorus)
But the sun still shines in the summer time
I'll be yours if you'll be mine
I tried to change but I changed my mind
Think I'll have another glass of mexican wine
She lived alone in a small apartment
Across the street from the health department
She left her pills in the glove compartment
That was the afternoon her heart went
(chorus)
And the sun still shines in the summer time
I'll be yours if you'll be mine
I tried to change but I changed my mind
Think I'll have another glass of mexican wine
Think I'll have another glass of mexican wine
I used to fly for United Airlines
Then I got fired for reading high times
License expired in almost no time
Now I'm retired and I think that's fine
(chorus)
Because the sun still shines in the summer time
I'll be yours if you'll be mine
I tried to change but I changed my mind
Think I'll have another glass of mexican wine
(repeat 2x)
Think I'll have another glass of mexican wine
Won't you have another glass of mexican wine

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Ninsaneja
04-25-2009

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This song depresses me. Maybe I'm weird, but it seems to me like the lyrics are saying that sad, lonely people die all the time and no one even cares. Great message.

It's also an obvious allusion/subversion to the common poetic usage of the sun as a metaphor for a true love. "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" etc. Even if people die, it won't be the end of the world.

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Miss Wilde
10-19-2008

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Does anyone else think think "he was killed in a cellular phone explosion" means he was killed in a terrorist attack? Bombs can be set off by calling a cell phone.
To be killed in a terrorist attack is terrible, but completely random -- just a result of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It goes along with the whole theme of this song, namely, "shit happens, but life goes on." That's how I interpreted it, anyway :P

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lies.and.pies
10-12-2008

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I felt this song was about death and endings and how life continues even after you've lost someone or something. The man dies from the cell phone and the water his ashed were in became baby lotion and the woman who lives across from the health department and who keeps her pills in her car forgot them the one day her heart gives out. Then there's they guy who's content with losing his job because he's happy now.
Very Ironic.

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Dabizi
01-12-2008

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I'm a little surprised that no one has suggested this yet (and I'd also like to put a vote in for 'wheels of PROmotion', which is what he clearly sings), but this song is certainly not a positive "everything will be all right" message.

The premise, as in most of the songs from this album, (and, really, most every FoW song in general) is of suburban desperation. It's the same idea as Hackensack, Fire Island, Bright Future in Sales, and even Stacy's Mom.

The most important thing to realize is that you have an untrustworthy narrator here. Listen to what he's saying in the chorus: "I tried to change but I changed my mind." When you put that together with "The sun still shines in the summertime / I'll be yours if you'll be mine" you've got a pretty solid presentation of the societal ills associated with the wealthy, suburban upper-middle class in America. (Specifically the New York metropolitan area, if you'd like. Long Island, if you wanna go deeper.)

It's a testament to the new post Gen-Y descriptor as the "Me Generation" - morally ambiguous [unbridled] selfishness in everything we do. Having the physical capability to change, but being so emotionally incapable and lazy that you just give up and use the excuse of "I could've, but I changed my mind." Even "I'll be yours if you'll be mine" is a barter, to pass the responsibility off on another. Everything else here is just a painting of banality. It's the theme for the whole album.

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bethanyxsummer
11-11-2007

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to Rex Iudeorum .. must you dissect the song so proudlyl? no. music is different to everyone. you don't know everything.
this song reminds me of a certain summer, it has a good feel to it, and it's lyrics are beautiful and contemplative and the music is so catchy

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Code Monkey
10-13-2007

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"ok first of all major typo its definetly not "The wheels of promotion were set into motion" it is clearly "The wheels of COMMOTION were set into motion" have any of you even listened to this song?"

That's a little pedantic - the lyrics aren't that clear in this song to begin with, and it's not like your post was completely typo-free.

Anyway, yeah, this song is inspirational if a little too full of forced rhymes. To the person who said "I'll be yours if you'll be mine" is a bog-standard song lyric - agreed :) But it has at least SOME relevance... of some kind... maybe.

I love this song. It's about optimism, and staying on top of life whatever it throws at you. It's good. Mhm. Oh yeah.

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Brodie Banks
09-22-2007

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This song is Radation Vibe for the 2000's. It has no meaning, but is still awesome.

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PrEsLeYsBiGsIsTa
06-18-2007

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amazing song about all the "dumb little ironic stuff" that happens to people all the time.

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Kiiros
06-18-2006

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This song gives me the chills for some reason, I agree with the meaning being about how irionic or bad things happen but you've got to move on.
"That was the afternoon her heart went."
My favourite line.

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devilslittlesister
05-14-2006

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I think it's about how a bunch of really crappy ironic stuff can happen in your life, but you just gotta grit your teeth and keep pushin' on. Ya can't just give up. Ya gotta keep your eyes open for the good because the bad will not drown out the good. The sun still shines.

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evil monkey
03-31-2006

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I was really surprised when I heard this because I didn’t realise that it was FOW! I had only ever heard Stacy’s mom and wasn’t all that impressed but this is a really laid back song. Totally just about the fact that shit happens but there is nothing that you can do about it. Life goes on so you may as well just sit back and enjoy the ride.

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BBFOFR
02-18-2006

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It's about how life sucks for some people yet no matter how bad life get's the Sun will be shining

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Thanksthatwuzfun
01-24-2006

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Lifeismusic is right the lyric is "The wheels of promotion were set into motion

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beastieboy
12-28-2005

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It is just about people set into bad situations. good song. Totally better thatn stacy's mom (but still a good song)

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LifeIsMusic
06-26-2005

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Oh, one more note, not to be rude, madmax988, but I have the cd, and the lyrics do go "the wheels of promomotion..." not commotion. Besides, that wouldn't make any sense. (-^.^-)

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LifeIsMusic
06-26-2005

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Oh, one more note, not to be rude, madmax988, but I have the cd, and the lyrics do go "the wheels of promomotion..." not commotion. Besides, that wouldn't make any sense. (-^.^-)

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LifeIsMusic
06-26-2005

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I've listened to this song so many times... to me, it means the the irony in life can be beautiful, chaotic, f-ed up, and unpredictable. For lines such as "...have a glass of mexican wine..." and "...I'll be your's if you'll be mine..." just mean that you should take ahold of this life before the irnoy gets you.

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madmax988
05-04-2005

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ok first of all major typo its definetly not "The wheels of promotion were set into motion" it is clearly "The wheels of COMMOTION were set into motion" have any of you even listened to this song? this also makes much more sense considering a random of chane of events would be commotion thus it starts commotion quite a good line IMHO

and btw there is mexican wine from what i hear its like mexican beer cheap inexpensive and well mexican lol (think box wine, now think mexico)

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Preciouszipster
03-18-2005

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...is there such a thing as mexican wine?

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x13BlackKat13x
03-17-2005

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I think this song is so inspirational. It proves that the sun really does still shine in the summertime no matter what may happen to you through the year. Things go on.

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___ronweasley
02-11-2005

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i ment the instrumentals are brilliantly written. yea it is simple but i love it. i being it's so catchy and all. sry to whomever i've offended or whatever.

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Rex Iudeorum
01-23-2005

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Well, quite simply mswer, there are many ways to say this: you're wrong.

Now, is this the deepest song ever? Of course not. But it isn't "pop, pain and simple." It *does* mean something.

"He was killed by a cellular phone explosion
They scattered his ashes across the ocean "

Bizzarre and unrealistic way to die, yet a grandiose sendoff. Existentialism, plain and simple.

"The water was used to make baby lotion
The wheels of promotion were set into motion "

In other words, his death amounted to nothing, and yet it still set events into place.

"But the sun still shines in the summer time
I'll be yours if you'll be mine
I tried to change but I changed my mind
Think I'll have another glass of mexican wine "

No matter what happens, some things you can always count on. Second line is a standard song lyric, I've gotten used to it. Third line is him thinking "Well, I could try and change things" but then saying screw it and accepting life. Fourth line is sitting back and appreciating what you DO have.

She lived alone in a small apartment
Across the street from the health department
She left her pills in the glove compartment
That was the afternoon her heart went

Girl, living across from the health department, leaves her pills in the car the one day she needs them, (presumably) dies of a heart attack. Ironic and tragic death, and yet chorus shows that life goes on.

"I used to fly for United Airlines
Then I got fired for reading high times
License expired in almost no time
Now I'm retired and I think that's fine "

Play on two meanings of the word high, then him accepting what has happened and being happy with it.

Got it?

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mswer
01-12-2005

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Brilliant? Could be about so many things? Can someone who said that this song could be about "so many things" tell me just one thing that it could be about? For example, what might
The water was used to make baby lotion
The wheels of promotion were set into motion
mean? I look at it and I see...nothing. They just rhymed random words into plausible sentences and then wrote this song.

I happen to dislike this song but that's not the point. The point is this song couldn't "be about so many things." It's pop, plain and simple.

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___ronweasley
12-26-2004

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Brilliant.

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TenaciousG213
12-11-2004

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I absolutely love the lyric
"I tried to changed, but I changed my mind"
Yeah, I agree with you guys. This song is about how stuff happens, but you just gotta roll with it and play the hand you're dealt.

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