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You said "I'll build you a bed of cactus where you could sleep when the night is too sharp." I said "I'll cover you with wax and light your hair like a wick when the night is too cold." You don't think of me as often as I'd like you to, but when you do it's of me looking for you on the ship. The plane I'm waiting on has your face printed on the wings, when it crashes I'll eat the paint off. I'm going to spank your ass so hard you'll hate the wig master, but I'll put two pillows on your dining room chair. You're like a parrot, something that belongs to me and not to you. Loneliness isn't being alone, it's when someone loves you and you don't have it in you to love them back. Look at my hair, it's a dirty little mop crying for you to send it away. All a guy needs is a chance to pull off my clothes and snicker, try harder. If you mail me a toy I'll use it but that's the most I have to offer. "Do you want to see my panties?" is the last thing I'll ever say to you. "I want to finger every teenager I sea" is the last thing you'll say to me. Don't make fun of my night out.
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Track duration: 04:18
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this line in particular--"I'm going to spank your ass so hard you'll hate the wig master, but I'll put two pillows on your dining room chair"--speaks a lot to me, the speaker treats the other person badly but later comes around and tries to comfort him/her. the speaker still holds some sort of regard for the person but the relationship is incredibly strained
the other person is coping better than him but he simply can't deal with whatever is separating them or plaguing the relationship ("loneliness isn't being alone, it's when someone loves you and you don't have it in you to love them back"). the speaker is aware of the unconditional love he/she is offered but is guilt spiraling for not returning it and not being able to deal.
i think it turns into the speaker using this person as a comfort for the downward spiral he's in. it's where i think the sexual/lustful aspects play in, the speaker is sleeping around to try to numb to loneliness. he fully expects the other person to dump him ("Look at my hair, it's a dirty little mop crying for you to send it away") for his conduct and unfaithfulness but it appears the other person stands by him.
"Do you want to see my panties?" is the last thing I'll ever say to you. "I want to finger every teenager I see" is the last thing you'll say to me.
this lines confuse me but i think they may just be switching perspective--the other person saying that he/she will continuously... offer himself/herself to the speaker (for lack of a more eloquent way to phrase that), because sex can be a comfort, a temporary cure to sadness and loneliness. but the speaker is still deep in his troubles & will continue erratic sexual behavior, to the point where he's beyond caring about other people's judgement ("Don't make fun of my night out")
terrifying song but evocative, definitely not anyone trying to make a "quick buck"
from the song:
"don't make fun of my night out"
perhaps he was finally about to tell he's been cheating.. and he feared he'd be made fun of over the fact..
"You don't think of me as often as I'd like you to, but when you do it's of me looking for you on the ship."
her looking for him on the ship describes a feeling of being lost and lonely, not finding him..
"The plane I'm waiting on has your face printed on the wings, when it crashes I'll eat the paint off."
he's the one she's waiting for, the plane is their relationship, if their relationship crashes, she'll swallow his face, so a new face can be painted.. he's not irreplacable, and the woman knows it. of course, as relationships go, the irreplacibility comes with many many years of being together..
"I'm going to spank your ass so hard you'll hate the wig master, but I'll put two pillows on your dining room chair."
Describes a feeling of selfhate, which sometimes shows itself as him spaking her as a way of directing the hate outwards, other times it shows itself as him trying to make things better..
"You're like a parrot, something that belongs to me and not to you."
he feels like she has no opinions of her own.. she only copies what he says.. she never fights him back when he spanks her, such a creature with no will.. but would it leave him with less to hate if she fought back.. perhpas not.
"If you mail me a toy I'll use it but that's the most I have to offer."
She won't be thinking of him when she uses the gifts he has given.
"Do you want to see my panties?" "I want to finger every teenager I see"
That's what he thinks of her..
for me, the essence comes from extreme apathy towards others.
"Loneliness isn't being alone, it's when someone loves you and you don't have it in you to love them back."
a using of others, and the feeling of not caring for any of them. that you feel that people feel something for you. but inside of yourself, there is no need to return any kind of emotion.
~Jamie Stewart from Popmatters interview