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I'm not a ladies man, I'm a land mine
Filming my own fake death
Under an '88 Cavalier I go
But-but-but-but nothing but the rear bumper's blown
But I's born for this flight
United 955 on the fifth of July
Back to SFO
I-I join the dark side
In a thin disguise
On consumer grade video at night
Faking suicide for applause
In the food courts of malls
And cursing racing horses on church steps
Playing the wall at singles bingo
All-time gringo
Did anyone hear me cry there?
Through a toilet stall divider
I swear I care, raw
Am I an example of a calculated birth?
To a star chart for clowns, I'm not
Under robin eggs in a nest, you hit a manila envelope
With one last little robin's egg in it
A hollow bullet yet spent
Subject to dismissal
I wish all my pitfalls
Could be caught by this call
Cheeri-a, cheeri-e, cheeri-i, cheeri-o, cheeri-u
Filming my own fake death
Under an '88 Cavalier I go
But-but-but-but nothing but the rear bumper's blown
But I's born for this flight
United 955 on the fifth of July
Back to SFO
I-I join the dark side
In a thin disguise
On consumer grade video at night
Faking suicide for applause
In the food courts of malls
And cursing racing horses on church steps
Playing the wall at singles bingo
All-time gringo
Did anyone hear me cry there?
Through a toilet stall divider
I swear I care, raw
Am I an example of a calculated birth?
To a star chart for clowns, I'm not
Under robin eggs in a nest, you hit a manila envelope
With one last little robin's egg in it
A hollow bullet yet spent
Subject to dismissal
I wish all my pitfalls
Could be caught by this call
Cheeri-a, cheeri-e, cheeri-i, cheeri-o, cheeri-u
Lyrics submitted by oh ok
Track duration: 04:06
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"I wish all my pitfalls could be called my MISS-CALLS"
He's gotta be talking about the zodiac signs and how he doesn't buy into it. He answers his question with "I'm not."
Subject to dismissal"
I think this line is very powerful. I perceived it as a meaningless homicide. The death of WHAT is the real question though, and who's to blame...and WHY?
what would a "consumer grade video" be?
The line about playing "the wall" at singles bingo could be a reference to the Pink Floyd album, or it could be about Yoni's inability to engage people in conversation, and ending up having an anxiety attack and crying in the bathroom.
The calculated birth line probably has to do with astrology, which explains why he'd go to a star chart for clowns, as in an easy to read astrology chart.
The robin's egg lyric is really surreal, but my interpretation is that it has to do with the un-attainability of sex; just when you think you've got everything (the whole nest of eggs), someone does something to throw you off (you hid a manila envelope with one last little robin's egg in it)
A bullet yet spent has to do with Yoni not being able to have the sex he wants, subject to dismissal is a reference to rejection, and the last lyric is a reference to Yoni longing to say "goodbye" and "Fuck you" to the failures in his past:
"I wish all my pitfalls could be caught by this call:" "Cheery-o!"
I'm thinking the manilla envelope suggests 2 possible outlets:
1. Maybe its referencing a series of tasks. he says under robins eggs, and maybe those are goals he feels pressure of completing. so when he thinks he's finished, it would happen that he finds an envelope with another annoying thing to take care of.
2. the specific reference to eggs makes me think of something fragile. maybe a nest of fragile situations. the nest could suggest a bed, and robins eggs could be symbolic towards his caution of making moves. or certain expectations that his lady has for him and they must be done exactly how she wants, or her eggs will never hatch (does he want to settle down?)
man this makes my mind go crazy.
Through that lyric he would, to put it simply, be asking if his birth was a joke- which refers to the clown star chart.
that's my opinion, it never even occuured to me before looking up the lyrics that they may be two seperate sentences.
when i first heard why? it was the hollows and honestly i hated the band.
but slowly they started to grow on me. now i listen to them 24/7. hahaha. funny how things work.