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I got a hand
So I got a fist
So I got a plan
It's the best that I can do
Now we'll say it's in God's hands
But God doesn't always have the best goddamn plans, does he?
I ain't quite the beauty
Pulls out two guns and shoots at the pretty, pretty pure white--
Gotta keep thinking, things, hunters and kings
To block out the view, I gotta get
New bell to ring
New song to sing
A steady hand to ring
A readiness of things I do
I gotta get a new plan to bring to the people
People I can trick them into thinking anything
Oh rust it just right in the light
It's gold, it's gold
I got
Water and holes in my hands
I'm a digger of holes in the land
It's the easiest way
And you know
It's the easiest way
So I go
Lalalalalala
I got water and I got holes, so
Lalalalalala
Sons and daughters of hungry ghosts
I got water and I got holes, so
Lalalalalala
Sons and daughters of hungry ghosts
Lalalalalala
I got a hand
So I got a fist
So I got a plan
It's the best that I can do
Now we'll say it's in God's hands
But God doesn't always have the best goddamn plans, does he?
I can't believe in the guns
I can't believe in the view
I sing, sing
Lalalalalala
I can't believe in those hunters and kings
I got a new plan to bring
I got a new song to sing
And it goes
Lalalalalala
And you know it's the easiest way
So I got a fist
So I got a plan
It's the best that I can do
Now we'll say it's in God's hands
But God doesn't always have the best goddamn plans, does he?
I ain't quite the beauty
Pulls out two guns and shoots at the pretty, pretty pure white--
Gotta keep thinking, things, hunters and kings
To block out the view, I gotta get
New bell to ring
New song to sing
A steady hand to ring
A readiness of things I do
I gotta get a new plan to bring to the people
People I can trick them into thinking anything
Oh rust it just right in the light
It's gold, it's gold
I got
Water and holes in my hands
I'm a digger of holes in the land
It's the easiest way
And you know
It's the easiest way
So I go
Lalalalalala
I got water and I got holes, so
Lalalalalala
Sons and daughters of hungry ghosts
I got water and I got holes, so
Lalalalalala
Sons and daughters of hungry ghosts
Lalalalalala
I got a hand
So I got a fist
So I got a plan
It's the best that I can do
Now we'll say it's in God's hands
But God doesn't always have the best goddamn plans, does he?
I can't believe in the guns
I can't believe in the view
I sing, sing
Lalalalalala
I can't believe in those hunters and kings
I got a new plan to bring
I got a new song to sing
And it goes
Lalalalalala
And you know it's the easiest way
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CMG: "Like, what’s a 'Hungry Ghost?'"
Spencer Krug: "It’s – ok I’m going to forget the details now, so I’m going to sound kind of dumb…But in one particular Buddhist religion – and don’t ask me why I referred to something Buddhist – but there are these neat characters in Buddhism that are these tortured characters. They symbolize one of the levels of Hell. I forget the name for it – but there are a bunch of different levels of Hell, and one of them is this level where hypocrites and liars go; not the worst sins, sort of middle-ground punishment. And when they get there, they turn into hungry ghosts, that’s the best translation for it. And hungry ghosts are always thirsty, and always hungry. They’re sort of like that character Tantalus in Greek mythology: he can’t eat or drink, but he’s always hungry or thirsty. And these ghosts, they have really tiny throats, so if they try to eat, it chokes them and they die, because they only have these little straws for throats. I THINK that when they drink water it turns into fire."
From an interview did. Can find the full version here: cokemachineglow.com/feature/2439/…
Again, this is just what comes to mind for me, and I'm sure the song's about something else entirely. I just thought it was so delightfully cynical so I wanted to share. :)
In the first stanza i think that he is saying that he needs to start taking action for his life and that ifGOd isnt going to do anything he is going to by killing himself.
the second stanza i think is talking about how much the person ahtes humanity and how he trys to block himself out from the world by destroying anything that would remind him of the world. " shoot at the pretty pretty pure white" next i think that they try to hide from the world by living in a world of fantasy "Gotta keep thinking, things, hunters and kings,To block out the view". and the rest i think he is talking about how foolish the world is.
in the next stanza i think refers back to the title of the song with hngry ghosts cause they will die if they drink water because their throats are to small and they would suffocate. so when he says "Ive got water and I've got holes" i think it is saying he was trying to drink the water but it all fell out through the holes. ANd then he is saying that suicide is the easiest way cause they can no longer deal with their life.
Next he starts to realize that his world of fantasy isnt real and so he just gives up and finally comes up with a way to kill himself " got a new plan to bring"
"Pulls out two guns and shoots at the pretty, pretty pure white"
Cowboy Dan.
"to block out the view"
The View.
"I got water and I got holes,"
"I'm a digger of holes"
Ugly Casanova's Diggin' Holes In Water is not on any albums, but was recorded at Dub Narcotic Studios
mostly the 'i've got water and i've got holes, so' line.
In the religion spencer is talking about, it doesn't matter if you're really sorry for what you've done. you have to pay for your sins. If you were bad, you're gonna be a hungry ghost.
Christianity has the whole forgiveness thing. You can be a murderer and a rapist, and as long as you are sorry and accept jesus, who has holes in his hands to save us, you get off scot free. Way easier than being a mostly good person and still being punished.
"In Tibetan Buddhism Hungry Ghosts (Sanskrit: pretas) have their own realm depicted on the Bhavacakra and are represented as teardrop or paisley-shaped with bloated stomachs and necks too thin to pass food such that attempting to eat is also incredibly painful. Some are described as having "mouths the size of a needle's eye and a stomach the size of a mountain". This is a metaphor for people futilely attempting to fulfill their illusory physical desires."
So perhaps the song is, in some sense, sympathetic to those raised by parents who were like hungry ghosts, in that they were always painfully chasing their desires, and incapable of feeling satisfied. Like social climbers, workaholics, drug addicts. Theres some interesting thoughts out there on the interwebs about drug addicts resembling "hungry ghosts," in that they are always chasing that next high, never getting enough.