I'm so glad the whole second page of this discussion has been wasted by collective internet stupidity, you slobs haven't even tried to dissect the song.
So, like it's been mentioned, pavlov fathered classical conditioning. You ring a bell every time you feed your dog, eventually the dog salivates without the bell.
The middle part of the song is where the pavlov reference comes in, I can't connect it to the intro rap part very well, but so far this is what I've got:
Lucille lives in a small building in a big city (probably new york); not only can she hear every move her upstairs neighbor makes, she's also become very extremely obsessed with said neighbor. She listens to every move he makes, until he goes to sleep (turns his thoughts off).
The part where she sings "it gets quiet" has this chaotic feeling -- her neighbor has gone to sleep and she can't (panic), but finally our heroine gets to sleep only to be awakened by her neighbor's alarm. Neighbor goes back to sleep, but lucille can't for anticipation of her obsession dinning on the sounds of her neighbor moving about upstairs.
The intro and outro don't fit so well, but here's my best guess. Imagine Lucille actually makes it out of her apartment. In the third stanza we see Lucille indirectly sharing her frustration with some sort of happiness that another female figure brings to neighbor. Songs about angels, feathers on the dumb box (mailbox perhaps), things a girlfriend might do.
The first two stanzas I don't have much on, other than the fact that I think boulder is probably bowl and it's referring to listening through a wall with a hole cut in the bottom of a bowl (which would be hard to do with an upstairs neighbor).
Hope this helps someone, if anyone knows for sure what the grave digger reference is about, e-mail me
I'm so glad the whole second page of this discussion has been wasted by collective internet stupidity, you slobs haven't even tried to dissect the song.
So, like it's been mentioned, pavlov fathered classical conditioning. You ring a bell every time you feed your dog, eventually the dog salivates without the bell.
The middle part of the song is where the pavlov reference comes in, I can't connect it to the intro rap part very well, but so far this is what I've got:
Lucille lives in a small building in a big city (probably new york); not only can she hear every move her upstairs neighbor makes, she's also become very extremely obsessed with said neighbor. She listens to every move he makes, until he goes to sleep (turns his thoughts off).
The part where she sings "it gets quiet" has this chaotic feeling -- her neighbor has gone to sleep and she can't (panic), but finally our heroine gets to sleep only to be awakened by her neighbor's alarm. Neighbor goes back to sleep, but lucille can't for anticipation of her obsession dinning on the sounds of her neighbor moving about upstairs.
The intro and outro don't fit so well, but here's my best guess. Imagine Lucille actually makes it out of her apartment. In the third stanza we see Lucille indirectly sharing her frustration with some sort of happiness that another female figure brings to neighbor. Songs about angels, feathers on the dumb box (mailbox perhaps), things a girlfriend might do.
The first two stanzas I don't have much on, other than the fact that I think boulder is probably bowl and it's referring to listening through a wall with a hole cut in the bottom of a bowl (which would be hard to do with an upstairs neighbor).
Hope this helps someone, if anyone knows for sure what the grave digger reference is about, e-mail me