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Tonight I'm coming home in a coma if it fucking kills me. Listless but relieved, becoming like a newborn hostage. Orphaned by an ambulance. I got this new black eye just for you. Your hopeless romantic now helplessly rheumatic. Poets grinding teeth to powder. All my vowels are getting lost in the gauze. Misinterpret courting for the cursing of a drooling fool. Here's to cheap sex and codeine in a hospital bed. And maybe I'd object, if I felt at all alive. Everybody is dying to lay down with you. I got the order all wrong. Maybe I bumped my head. Maybe I should quiet down. Don't bet another black out, I'll be all right. There's an army at my window waiting to lose this fight. I'm the king of this all night clinic. The fucking champion. Tonight we'll feast like royality in traction, happy and meticulous. There's a delicate love song in this, kicked out and dripping in verse. Go get your gun because god won't show. He sent a poet instead. The don quixote of the icu. Quite impressive for a cripple. Munchausen by proxy of a muse. Tempt not a desperate man. This split lip is for you. I traded it for an outdated tooth.
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Track duration: 02:40
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there are some really great images and lines in here. "becoming like a newborn hostage", you can imagine how much somebody with this condition would enjoy being swaddled up in blankets in a hospital room, being tended to by nurses and fed 3 times a day like a little baby.
"don quixote of the icu" - the work of fiction don quixote is a farce story, much like his injuries
"Everybody is dying to lay down with you. I got the order all wrong." this is so great, if taken literally, he got the order of the words wrong (i.e. "i'm laying down to die for you" instead), and i "getting the order wrong" is an expression too when you make a mistake, like a waiter in a restaurant.
that's what's so great about fuckin keith buckley, layers of puns and plays on word, allusions to other writing
the don quixote thing is about him being a hopeless romantic. a knight errant as it were.
and i like the thing about taking what he said literally. but i see it more as him acknowledging that the girl that is the subject of his desires, is also lusted after by many others.
and like, all the attention he craves throughout the song is for a girl.
which you probably made full sense of, but yeah. incredibly crafted song :)
not becoming.