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She's got the chemical eyes and you're looking OK
From the bottom of the best and the worst, well, what can I say?
Well, you cocked your head to shoot me down
And I don't give a damn about you or this town no more
Now that I know the score
Well, good luck believing every word they said
I hope you have enough space in your head
I don't, no, but I know the score
Need me to fall down so you can climb up some fool-ass ladder?
Well, good luck, I hope
I hope that something better is up there
Because you cocked your head to shoot me down
And I don't give a shit about you or this town no more
No, I know the score
She's got the chemical eyes and you're looking OK
From the bottom of the best and the worst, well, what can I say?
From the bottom of the best and the worst, well, what can I say?
Well, you cocked your head to shoot me down
And I don't give a damn about you or this town no more
Now that I know the score
Well, good luck believing every word they said
I hope you have enough space in your head
I don't, no, but I know the score
Need me to fall down so you can climb up some fool-ass ladder?
Well, good luck, I hope
I hope that something better is up there
Because you cocked your head to shoot me down
And I don't give a shit about you or this town no more
No, I know the score
She's got the chemical eyes and you're looking OK
From the bottom of the best and the worst, well, what can I say?
Lyrics submitted by Dubious Rabbit
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"She's got the chemical eyes and you're looking OK" - seems like she is toxic, has inhuman or destructive eyes (intentions or ways), but that she still seems like she's ok; I get a very fake and insecure image from this.
"From the bottom of the best and the worst, well, what can I say?" - So she is at the very bottom of everything, worst than the worst.
"Well, you cocked your head to shoot me down" - Not a physical kind of hurt because it is coming from her looks, from her head, and which (IMO) is far worse than any physical pain someone can inflict upon you - these kinds emotional wounds do not heal.
"And I don't give a damn about you or this town no more
Now that I know the score" - I agree with the implication that at one point he did care about things, but since he figured out how things really were (possibly coming out of this naivety that he was in) he realizes that everything is fucked and not worth giving a damn about, hopeless. (Seems to have ties to "Night on the Sun" where at the end he talks about this "town being 500 miles underground...but that's alright," as in this town is all dead and buried but that's ok, I don't care anymore.)
"Well, good luck believing every word they said
I hope you have enough space in your head
I don't, no, but I know the score" - Maybe going back to his apathy, and saying to this woman that she can continue to care and believe what these people have to say and fill her head up with crap, but he doesn't have the room for it anymore (maybe because he has too many “real” thoughts as I like to put it, he is thinking of philosophical stuff while she is letting her head be filled up by what these other people have to say.)
“Need me to fall down so you can climb up some fool-ass ladder?” – Seems to be alluding to a childish thought that the world is absolute, that for one to gain another must loose; like when a new sibling is born and the older one has the thought of now being “loved less” even though love cannot have a fixed amount, and for one to be loved does not mean you have to receive less.
Also, I just must comment on how I love the way that he wrote this whole song, adding in the “well”s to have a frank, apathetic tone. It sounds like he is speaking to this woman, not just about her, sounding so disappointed and withdrawn.
I swear it gives me chills and nearly brings me to tears every time.
Every word they said may have been the advice of others who want her to lie and cheat, which they probably told her would make her smarter. It sounds like a hierarchical pyramid of shot-calling in a town ravaged by a turf war, one the songwriter was a part of at a time when he thought it was all fun and games until she did something serious to mess him up. He did imply he used to give a damn about the people, the places, the different stories behind the faces, now he can't trust anybody.
Or it could be about his mother, who left him in a flooded house because she didn't have enough room in the trailer.
Or it could all just be about the rape allegations.
I like to think of it as a song of betrayal and bad choices of friends.