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Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk Lyrics
Cigarettes and chocolate milk
These are just a couple of my cravings Everything it seems I like's a little bit stronger A little bit thicker, a little bit harmful for me If I should buy jellybeans Have to eat them all in just one sitting Everything it seems I like's a little bit sweeter A little bit fatter, a little bit harmful for me And then there's those other things Which for several reasons we won't mention Everything about 'em is a little bit stranger, a little bit harder A little bit deadly It isn't very smart Tends to make one part So brokenhearted Sitting here remembering me Always been a shoe made for the city Go ahead accuse me of just singing about places With scrappy boys faces have general run of the town Playing with prodigal sons Take a lot of sentimental valiums Can't expect the world to be your Raggedy Andy While running on empty you little old doll with a frown You got to keep in the game Retaining mystique while facing forward I suggest a reading of Lessoon in Tightropes Or urfing Your High Hopes or dios Kansas It isn't very smart Tends to make one part So brokenhearted Still there's not a show on my back Holes or a friendly intervention I'm just a little bit heiress, a little bit Irish A little bit Tower of Pisa Whenever I see ya So please be kind if I'm a mess Cigarettes and chocolate milk Cigarettes and chocolate milk
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01-13-2002
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06-21-2002
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08-13-2002
"You got to keep in the game
Retaining mystique while facing forward " That is a great line. . . .
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03-12-2003
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03-25-2003
I also feel like it can be looked at two ways- On the more literal level, I agree with everything that's been already said.
But also feel like, he's sort of presenting himself to someone-- and asking them to excuse him if he's not all together. The line: "Whenever I see ya So please be kind if I'm a mess." Really fits in with that, don't you think? And the lines about being broken hearted kind of makes me think that he's not particularly happy with the way he is... Songs are great when you can look at them in different ways, eh?
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05-14-2004
In doing all these things he's making his life inbalanced and maybe ruining chances he's had with people. He's only asking that you forgive his slightly greedy tendencies as human nature.
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12-13-2004
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01-15-2005
Definately agree with spweasle, this song is so innocent in how it talks about his desires.
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04-07-2005
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04-09-2005
A little bit Tower of Pisa
Whenever I see ya
So please be kind if I'm a mess
Lovely.
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05-10-2005
i like this song a lot. we want things too much and what we want too much of is really bad for us. so true.
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05-14-2005
But now I have a question, I get the idea of the leaning towner of Pisa, but what does he mean when he says he's 'a little bit Irish, a little bit Heiress"?
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06-01-2005
By saying he's a little bit heiress my guess is that he means he inherits certain traits and tendencies from his parents. I could be totally wrong, but this is what first entered my head. It's probably a brilliant metaphor, but at this moment I can't really figure it out.
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08-24-2005
He talks about fondness for cigarettes, chocolate milk, etc, then we come onto 'those other things'; things that the protagonist has made emotional attachments to - and are 'a little bit stranger, a little bit harder'....
The rest of the song follows suit. The 'It isn't very smart/Tends to make one part/So brokenhearted' fits as well - saying how rooting yourself in places, in people, isn't at all clever. Turning things round; perhaps it’s wiser not to love at all, than to risk subsequent loss?
A few more lines to back up my point: 'Go ahead accuse me of just singing about places/With scrappy boys faces have general run of the town' - might be my mind, but I believe our character is telling someone of the way he lives, challenging them to accuse him of tying himself to mediocre places, average people...
And then: 'Can't expect the world to be your Raggedy Andy/While running on empty'. That clinched it for me. He's asking how someone could expect the world to be their plaything, their playground, and at their disposal, while not giving anything of themselves away….
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12-22-2005
well, he's irish. self explanatory.
and heiress...his parents are famous. his father loudon wainright III was incredibly famous in his time and also very rich. so he's an heir in that sense. but heirESS because let's face it, he's kinda girly :-)
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02-20-2006
A little bit thicker, a little bit harmful for me"
i consider this to be the thesis of the song. we all have attractions to habits or lifestyles or just thoughts that are bad for us. some of them are worse for us than other. (those things, which for several reasons we won't mention) not just because he wants to be poetic, but because we hide those guilty pleasures from the world. whenever someone really gets to know us, they have be kind, because the truth is that we're ALL a mess.
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07-21-2006
One other idea about the heiress reference: ClassAct714 is right, his parents are famous AND (less literally) it may reference the inevitability of his indulgences; the stereotyped 'princess' feels *entitled* to have *whatever* she wants. Also the Irish stereotype of drinking, etc. applies as well. Both serve as excuses for his Tower of Pisa just-barely-pulling-it-togther messiness.
The tenor of the song, being so upbeat and show-tuney can be both ironic (given the harm from addictions) and an homage to our Judy Garlands, etc., the alcohol and drug-addicted stars who numb themselves and go out on stage singing happy tunes..
Understated and brilliant I say!
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08-15-2006
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08-31-2006
"And then there's those other things
Which for several reasons we won't mention" - the addiction that are forwned upon- the songs tone and his voice gets deeper.
"Everything about 'em is a little bit stranger, a little bit harder
A little bit deadly" - side effects, hard drugs and lethal.
"Can't expect the world to be your Raggedy Andy
While running on empty you little old doll with a frown" cant expect everyone to be kind and understanding and stron for you just because youre comming down from drugs or running on empty and wanting more. "gotta keep in the game, maintaining mistique..." contuinue with every day life and not be so obvious to the audience/public.
a little bit heiress- could be saying he's a bit of a "queen"
a little bit irish- he really is part irish and feels more at home there when away from newyork than he does anywhere else in europe.
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09-13-2006
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10-09-2006
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12-05-2006
A little bit Tower of Pisa"
i love this line. It's such a good song :D
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03-29-2007
conspiracy?
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04-02-2007
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06-07-2007
Holes or a friendly intervention
I'm just a little bit heiress, a little bit Irish
A little bit Tower of Pisa
[God, I loathe friendly interventions. They usually mean a month in a nunnery-cum-rehab centre. And one has to seem grateful upon returning to the real world.]
It seems to me he's sort of pleading with his friends/loved ones not to interfere, saying that he's holding on, that he's leaning but has yet to fall, that it's basically in his blood and they should let him satisfy his harmful little cravings.
Playing with prodigal sons
Take a lot of sentimental valiums
Can't expect the world to be your Raggedy Andy
While running on empty you little old doll with a frown
You got to keep in the game
Retaining mystique while facing forward
He can't hope for the world to support his choices, he can't expect lenience when he's suffering from withdrawal, but he has to grin and bear it. And so do his friends: they need lots of sentimental Valiums when dealing with this prodigal son.
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