Lyrics for Carbon Monoxide as interpreted by anna118k

Carbon Monoxide Lyrics
Carbon monoxide
Soon I'll go to sleep
If I don't got my socks on right
They slide right off of my feet
As I walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk
Walk-a, walk, walk-a, walk, walk-a, walk

Carbon monoxide
As I take you home
The first time I get my socks on right
But I don't have a gas mask on
As I walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a,
walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a
Walk you home
Yeah
I'm so cool, I'm so cool, I'm so cool
Walk-a, walk-a, walk, walk-a, walk-a, walk,
Walk, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a
Walk you home
Yeah
I'm so cool, I'm so cool, I'm so cool

Come on daddy
Come on daddy
Come on daddy
Come on daddy

Come on daddy
Come on daddy
Come on daddy
Come on daddy

Carbon monoxide
Soon we'll go to sleep
No one will notice we're gone
Cause we don't have a job to keep
They'll just say that we're being lazy
Sex crazy, sex cra-zazy
They'll just say we're living our whole life in bed
And we'll be in bed but we'll be oh so very much
Dead-a, dead-a, dead-a, dead-a, dead-a, dead-a
Dead-a, dead-a, dead-a, dead-a, dead-a, d-dead
Yeah
But we're so cool, we're so cool, we're so cool
Dead-a, dead-a, dead-a, dead-a, dead-a, dead-a
Dead-a, dead-a, dead-a, dead-a, dead-a, d-dead
Dead
But we're still cool, we're still cool, we're still cool

Come on daddy
Come on daddy
Come on, come on, come on daddy

Come on daddy
Come on daddy
Come on daddy
Come on daddy

Come on daddy
Come on daddy
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on

Carbon monoxide
Carbon monoxide

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glortw
03-26-2005

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I don't really know what this song means. It's just gorgeous though.

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talkies
03-31-2005

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I'm not quite sure what message Regina is trying to relay through this song, however I've created a character in mind who accompanies this song: When listening to this song I think of a girl who is completely careless, not at all cautious, more concerned with comfort status of her feet and I like to think that the carbon dioxide ( which if, in reality, is increased leads to loss of consciousness or death ) represents the situations she encounters and glides right through without protection ( e.g., the gas mask ) that would damage or even kill others.

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talkies
04-02-2005

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Oops, I obviously meant monoxide*. :x

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pablohoney94704
04-07-2005

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it's about suicide.

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ultimatesparanza
04-13-2005

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Sudicide, yes, but i think more complex than that....its about people who hurt themsleves or live dangerously for attention; "Come on daddy, come on daddy.." kind of a cry-for-hellp lullaby. People who want their parents to care about them...

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joemomma
06-27-2005

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Ooo, dark much? The "Come on Daddy" sounds very sexual, and I think the whole thing is about the deadening effects of love; how we step into a stable, unchanging state that is so wonderfully comforting.

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tigersroamfree
09-25-2005

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I think it's about a family who die in a carbon monoxide accident in their home.

I imagine it's a mother father and daughter.

I think she's thinking about how the people that that happens to die, they have no idea and go about their ordinary home life- it's such an anonymous way to die- you go to sleep and don't wake up the next day!

very sad but the melody is so lovely at the 'daddy' bit.

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apres_moi
02-09-2006

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"Soon we’ll go to sleep
No one will notice we’re gone
Cause we don’t have a job to keep
They’ll just say that we’re being lazy
Sex crazed, sex cra-zed, hazy
They’ll just say we’re living our whole life in bed
And we’ll be in bed but we’ll be oh so very much
Dead-a, dead-a, dead-a, dead-a, dead-a, dead-a, d-dead."

this makes the song very clear to me. it is about suicide, no doubt. but i believe it's not about the suicide of a family or anything like that. more of a song about killing yourself with the person you love - your girlfriend/boyfriend/husband/wife.. the part where they say "they'll just say that we're being lazy. sex crazed, sex crazed.. hazy." it seems to me like nobody believes that they're really in love, more that they're just in lust.

it's a very melancholy song, but beautiful nonetheless.

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stwongbad85
03-03-2006

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One young poster on Regina's website forum gave an interesting suggestion that this song was about the Halocaust. Not my idea, but an interesting one. You can find it here http://reginaspektor.infopop.cc/groupee along with other such interperatations.

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Fuchsia
03-05-2006

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It means different things to me at different times, but I always kinda think it's Regina's answer to There is a Light That Never Goes Out.

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lecky333
03-31-2006

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The comment by "apres moi" correctly points out the key passage in the song.

"No one will notice we’re gone
Cause we don’t have a job to keep
They’ll just say that we’re being lazy
Sex crazy, sex cra-zazy
They’ll just say we’re living our whole life in bed
And we’ll be in bed but we’ll be oh so very much
Dead"

It's clearly about suicide, but I think it has a strong anti-corporate tone.

No one cares about these 2 suicidal lovers because they don't have jobs, and don't measure their own worth by what jobs they have or how much money they make.

This is incomprehensible to society who will call them "sex-crazy." Their cries of "come on daddy" are a call for attention as even their own parents measure the worth of their children by their accomplishments in the corporate world.

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Yuyi
04-12-2006

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lecky, I completely agree with your view...That's exactly what it means to me, but I never quite got the "come on daddy" part. The way you state it makes much sense.
It's such a sad song, but again...like everyone has stated, with such a beatiful melody.

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Alex an der seite
04-12-2006

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Check your CM filters! It is a deadly gas that can virtually not be detected!

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naomi6565
06-01-2006

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i always think about romeo and juliet when i hear this song... just an absolutely beautiful song.

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MadnessMethod
06-29-2006

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I think the song is saying how, just like carbon monoxide, (which is virtually undetectable but deadly) when the two of them die (possibly by suicide) no one will notice. So she's saying that she's like carbon monoxide.

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bryce
09-22-2006

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In my opinion, it's about caring too much about the things don't matter, without realising the bigger problem. Eventually, you don't know it, but the problems around you build up to a momentous force and begin to destroy your surroundings, and eventually you, before you even notice.

In my opinion, the "come on, daddy" part, is where she's realised that [whatever significant person] has died and she's trying to coax him back to life. That's where she stops caring consciously, and lets herself die eventually as well.


I don't tink it's about suicide (at least not until the second part, and that's not even directly suicide), since.... it doesn't seem intentional enough.

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alex_and_ra
10-11-2006

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i do agree with the suicide idea, it seems to make sense,
and the idea of the holocaust is really intriguin, i can sort of see it, but not so much

i just always made the connection between this song and her childhood,
If I don’t got my socks on right
They slide right off off my feet

sort of encapulates the clumsiness of kids
and the daddy parts
i thiiiiink she grew up in soveit russia and moved to new york when she was 12ish, but im not sure,
i dont know the extent of what happened in soviet russia, but maybe the idea of a gas attack sort of portrays the danger of living there? i'm not sure if thats right though

i think it might be her move to america, and how those of her family might sneer at the decision to move to what has been deemed as one of the most materialistic countries:
Cause we don’t have a job to keep
They’ll just say that we’re being lazy
Sex crazy, sex cra-zazy
They’ll just say we’re living our whole life in bed

sort of comments on how people will think that when her family moves, they will become this idea of "american pigs", sort of engulfing themselves in a fairly western sex crazed, lazy society
and then come on daddy
to me just seems like regina saying, hurry up and lets go


oh and maybe
No one will notice we’re gone
Cause we don’t have a job to keep
means that they havnt got anything to lose, so they might aswell leave
its a long shot but thats what i hear when i listen to this song and its just evokes such feelings of defiance, as it was america where regina could write etc i suppose, but i dont know

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Tinkermel
11-28-2006

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To me, the "Come on Daddy" doesn't sound too sexual. It sounds like a little kid trying to wake up her dead parents. It's so heartbreaking. That's probably not it, but it's the immediate impression for me.

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missex
12-01-2006

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My take on it differs from the common suicide perception. At first listen, I too just accepted it as a beautiful song about suicide. I think it is actually just about how the world has just become so corrupt. Especially the lines "They'll just say that we're being lazy, sex-crazy, hazy....They'll just say we're living our lives in bed." I interpret that as saying that this generation is not doing anything to help our current situation as humans. And also the "No one will notice we're gone." is also a startingly true statement. But, at least this generation still cool, we're so cool, we're so cool.

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missex
12-01-2006

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sex-crazed, I meant.

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mayday!mayday!
12-26-2006

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this song reminds me of "the virgin suicides", remember lux? she killed herself with carbon monoxide, the thing with the parents and the sex crazy part.
i don't know, I just can't help remind that movie every time I listen to this song

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envirohodges
02-07-2007

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see i kind of think of suicide....
did anyone else take the im so cool as double meaning....cool meanind cold meaning dead....like shes getting colder as she dies.....

another thing i thought...which i know is such a stretch but it makes me think when she says sex crazy that maybe they died from eachothers carbon monoxide....like you know if your under the blankets for a long time......the air gets stale...and you potentiallly could die from lack of oxygn and carbon monoxide....

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stentorian
03-15-2007

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I think it's more about the modern societies pushing people to suicide. I saw this on class not too long ago. It makes perfect sense, I think.
Not good money? Not good job? Not good enough for us. Modern societies are alienating people.
You have to be either sex-crazy or lazy to not be a part of society, in society's eyes, in this song.
It could possibly be also about some girl's parents who don't like her boyfriend because he doesn't make enough money. Or the parents pushing them both to suicide, because they (the parents) are already alienated by society. Or maybe I just need more alcohol.

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dejavula
03-22-2007

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Maybe her dad was sex crazed and he raped or molested or abused her and shes like on wake up stop it and saying soon i will go to sleep (suicide) if he does not stop because its breaking her

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lloydre
03-25-2007

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I actually have a different reaction to this song. When I first heard it I thought of Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy"
Sylvia Plath killed herself at age 30, by natural gas (Carbon Monoxide) (so that fits with the idea of the song being about suicide).
Also the Plath's poem mentions being jewish and there are lines that refer to the Holocaust.
The poem itself is about Plath's father, who died when she was young and her feelings towards him (she at times sees him as a Vampire) and also apparently (from what i've read elsewhere) the male character in the poem changes from her father to her husband who cheated on her.
Notice the repetition of the word "Daddy" which also appears in Regina's song.
I simply see Regina's song as a tribute to Sylvia Plath and what she went to.


Plath's poem came from the website
http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=356

Daddy
by: Sylvia Plath

You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white,
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

Daddy, I have had to kill you.
You died before I had time--
Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,
Ghastly statue with one gray toe
Big as a Frisco seal

And a head in the freakish Atlantic
Where it pours bean green over blue
In the waters off beautiful Nauset.
I used to pray to recover you.
Ach, du.

In the German tongue, in the Polish town
Scraped flat by the roller
Of wars, wars, wars.
But the name of the town is common.
My Polack friend

Says there are a dozen or two.
So I never could tell where you
Put your foot, your root,
I never could talk to you.
The tongue stuck in my jaw.

It stuck in a barb wire snare.
Ich, ich, ich, ich,
I could hardly speak.
I thought every German was you.
And the language obscene

An engine, an engine
Chuffing me off like a Jew.
A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen.
I began to talk like a Jew.
I think I may well be a Jew.

The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna
Are not very pure or true.
With my gipsy ancestress and my weird luck
And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack
I may be a bit of a Jew.

I have always been scared of you,
With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo.
And your neat mustache
And your Aryan eye, bright blue.
Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You--

Not God but a swastika
So black no sky could squeak through.
Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you.

You stand at the blackboard, daddy,
In the picture I have of you,
A cleft in your chin instead of your foot
But no less a devil for that, no not
Any less the black man who

Bit my pretty red heart in two.
I was ten when they buried you.
At twenty I tried to die
And get back, back, back to you.
I thought even the bones would do.

But they pulled me out of the sack,
And they stuck me together with glue.
And then I knew what to do.
I made a model of you,
A man in black with a Meinkampf look

And a love of the rack and the screw.
And I said I do, I do.
So daddy, I'm finally through.
The black telephone's off at the root,
The voices just can't worm through.

If I've killed one man, I've killed two--
The vampire who said he was you
And drank my blood for a year,
Seven years, if you want to know.
Daddy, you can lie back now.

There's a stake in your fat black heart
And the villagers never liked you.
They are dancing and stamping on you.
They always knew it was you.
Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through

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