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Your illegal name in watercolor
On a piss stained Frisco truck
Hoping some camera'd catch your face
And the rain came down
And the fat worms show up like seared shut
Half clotted blood vein sections
Fast fossil drying up
You've got no God hand in the when of a raindrop
And the paint that you use was waterbased
The sound of light rain and burning leaves is the same
The hound in night's brain learning dreams is untamed
There'll be a time for drying up and dying on sidewalks
Years for beards in the bushes in someone's backyard
Dead dog in the shade
Like an empty old seed pod
Did you stay up all night
Sprawled out over a xerox enlargement of my placecard
Weeping backstage
With the pretty plus ones ignoring you
(Ooh) these are selfish times
(Ooh) these are selfish times
(Ooh) these are selfish times
I got shellfish dimes
And sand dollars
I'll no longer be the whit. or gaylords heavy
The glasses, beard and big wig must go
I did not play bigger bank in the backseat
Of the cheese that seemed risky
But my jeans were called huskys
I wrote this one on chipped dead elephant ivory
When they come I close the closet door
I wanted to breathe on beat
And go a fifth higher
Than my physical voice was coined for
I wanted to serve with hunger
But my gut split
And the hunger man poured into war
(Ooh) these are selfish times
(Ooh) these are selfish times
(Ooh) these are selfish times
I got shellfish dimes
And sand dollars
Did you stay up all night
Sprawled out over a xerox enlargement of my placecard
Weeping backstage with the plus one babes
(No!)
On a piss stained Frisco truck
Hoping some camera'd catch your face
And the rain came down
And the fat worms show up like seared shut
Half clotted blood vein sections
Fast fossil drying up
You've got no God hand in the when of a raindrop
And the paint that you use was waterbased
The sound of light rain and burning leaves is the same
The hound in night's brain learning dreams is untamed
There'll be a time for drying up and dying on sidewalks
Years for beards in the bushes in someone's backyard
Dead dog in the shade
Like an empty old seed pod
Did you stay up all night
Sprawled out over a xerox enlargement of my placecard
Weeping backstage
With the pretty plus ones ignoring you
(Ooh) these are selfish times
(Ooh) these are selfish times
(Ooh) these are selfish times
I got shellfish dimes
And sand dollars
I'll no longer be the whit. or gaylords heavy
The glasses, beard and big wig must go
I did not play bigger bank in the backseat
Of the cheese that seemed risky
But my jeans were called huskys
I wrote this one on chipped dead elephant ivory
When they come I close the closet door
I wanted to breathe on beat
And go a fifth higher
Than my physical voice was coined for
I wanted to serve with hunger
But my gut split
And the hunger man poured into war
(Ooh) these are selfish times
(Ooh) these are selfish times
(Ooh) these are selfish times
I got shellfish dimes
And sand dollars
Did you stay up all night
Sprawled out over a xerox enlargement of my placecard
Weeping backstage with the plus one babes
(No!)
Lyrics submitted by sethbrown
Track duration: 03:10
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i read this as someone who's so desperate for fame or attention (hoping some camera'd catch your face) that the singer finds it pathetic when he sees this person's name getting washed off the truck because of actual forces they can't control (you've got no God hand in the when of a raindrop).
then again i've never heard of waterbased graffiti paint, so who knows. chalk it up to metaphor maybe, dunno.
can't figure out what the worms are about. Are they actual worms? i want to read them as runny red paint drips from half dried, already obsolete graffiti (a 'fast fossil') but that's probably way too much of a stretch, haha. also doesn't explain why they're 'seared'.
I have a question. Yoni sings in the first and the second person, that is he seems to be singing about somebody else. What do people think?
But enough hair splitting! Why? rules and this is an awesome album!
im currently reading watership down for a class and find the lines "
I'll no longer be the whit. or gaylords heavy
The glasses, beard and big wig must go"
can pertain to the character big wig in that book... if anyone else has read it lemme know what u think
"I wrote this one on chipped dead elephant ivory" seems to be about writing it on an old piano. I don't know, that's just what I got.
"the hound in night's brain learning dreams is untamed." god i love that line. my dog sandy is a really submissive, sweet yellow lab. but when she goes to sleep she twitches and snarls, i suppose working out her aggression in her dreams. the energy and power trip from a nice line is allowing him to do this while awake.
"did you stay up all night" derf.
"I wrote this one on chipped dead elephant ivory" unique description of cocaine.
"I wanted to serve with hunger, but my gut split
And the hunger man poured into war" coke makes you hungry, is quite mentally addictive, etc. etc.
pretty sweet jam.
in the lines "i got shelfish dimes and sandollars" means that not everything revolves around money and that there are more beautiful things in life. It is also kind of about destroying the planet if u read carfully.
I think it/s mostly about avarice.