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Stalker's my whole style
And if I get caught I'll deny, deny, deny
Today you're twenty-five, I made you something fine
It's in the palm of my new hand, it's out
You're mostly what I think about and I'm proud
I've been coasting on this singles route
But I still hear your name in wedding bells
Will I look better or will I look the same rotting in hell?
You're the only proper noun I need
Hurry, my copper crown's gone green
Pull me, pull me on out of this tree
I'm stuck up a branch waiting
Clearly caught between two things unclear to me
Are you a female young messiah for stowaways in dugouts?
And are you what church folk mean by "the good news"?
Pulling plastic bags off heads
Or are you giving me a dirty look in the rear view, clicking the button on your U-Haul pen?
Don't pretend you didn't see me coming round the bend
On my fixie with the chopped horns turned in
Trailing behind your biodiesel Benz
Stalker's my whole style
And if I get caught I'll deny, deny, deny
Twenty-five carved with a butter knife
On the palm of my new hand, it's out
You're mostly what I think about
And if I get caught I'll deny, deny, deny
Today you're twenty-five, I made you something fine
It's in the palm of my new hand, it's out
You're mostly what I think about and I'm proud
I've been coasting on this singles route
But I still hear your name in wedding bells
Will I look better or will I look the same rotting in hell?
You're the only proper noun I need
Hurry, my copper crown's gone green
Pull me, pull me on out of this tree
I'm stuck up a branch waiting
Clearly caught between two things unclear to me
Are you a female young messiah for stowaways in dugouts?
And are you what church folk mean by "the good news"?
Pulling plastic bags off heads
Or are you giving me a dirty look in the rear view, clicking the button on your U-Haul pen?
Don't pretend you didn't see me coming round the bend
On my fixie with the chopped horns turned in
Trailing behind your biodiesel Benz
Stalker's my whole style
And if I get caught I'll deny, deny, deny
Twenty-five carved with a butter knife
On the palm of my new hand, it's out
You're mostly what I think about
Lyrics submitted by oh ok
Track duration: 03:33
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"Twenty-five carved with a butter knife
On the palm of my new hand, it's out"
echoing the beginning of the song, revealing what his birthday present to her in his hand was
(Today you're twenty-five, I made you something fine
It's in the palm of my new hand, it's out)
imply he has carved her age into his hand for her. I think the fact that he carves into his hand - a pretty permenant and serious action - something as obviously changing and momentary a thing as AGE I think shows his inability to let go of the past. He doesn't permenantly carve something like her name- something that would be more permenant, but something that will change in just a year... He wants to keep hold (literally haha) of something that will inevitably change and will definitely no longer be true soon, which is the same as the fact that although the relationship is over it's changed, he wants it forever. He clings onto the past.. OR EVEN he doesn't believe in the past - he almost doesn't really believe her age will change, not if he does carves it into his hand and makes it permanent, in the same way he doesn't believe the relationship has ended (or ever will) if he keeps it alive to himself, even if that means stalking her, etc. He also treats the gesture as a birthday present to her. Maybe he thinks him not letting go of the past, trying to hold on to this stuff is a dedication to her, that by stalking her and not letting go, he is doing it for her, as a kind gesture.
I guess it's up to the person reading which analysis is more relevant, I think it kinda works being a combination of all of them, that he just can't really face reality or change and he is putting her up there as a goddess (are you a young female messiah?) almost with a kind of shrine to her, and what he thinks are nice gestures... engraving her into himself to MAKE it real, to make it/her stay (despite the end that will and has already happened)
beautiful song!!
What do you think it means?
hurrry my copper crown's gone green
BEST LYRICS EVER.
I've been coasting on this singles route
But I still hear your name in wedding bells
Will I look better or will I look the same rotting in hell?
You're the only proper noun I need" So perfect.. I just disappear into this song.
I like this song because it captures that borderline-obsessive, borderline-stalking kind of behavior everyone has a tendency for. sarajevo nailed it.
Behaviors like following her on his bike as she's moving, cutting her age into his hand with a butter knife, constantly thinking about her, hearing her name in wedding bells, etc. I think we've all had someone who really got to us in a similar way.
At the same time, it's a completely romantic song. Lines like "You're the only proper noun I need" and "Are you a female young messiah" more than make up for the creepy overtones.
shadester, i'm trying to imagine a gun clicking a u-haul pen...awwkkwarrd....