I think it's cool how he says "on the counter, by your keys, was a book of numbers, and your remedies."
This references back to the ambiguity in "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" about whether a "number" refers to a phone number or a joint. It could be either: a phone number for a friend or a joint can "screen out the sorrow." But the fact that the "numbers" are near the "remedies" definitely suggests a joint, although again, it's ambiguous.
I love how they are referencing themselves, and especially a lyric from the past that was itself ambiguous. And now the same lyric is ambiguous in the same way, many albums later! This band is incredible.
Yeah, I think it is a friend who gets called to console the woman who cheats on her husband...
Yeah, I think it is a friend who gets called to console the woman who cheats on her husband...
She probably meets this guy to confess all the bad things she's done...but it has happened so many times it's become routine and shallow.
She probably meets this guy to confess all the bad things she's done...but it has happened so many times it's become routine and shallow.
"You should know, how all the pros play the game,
You change your name
Like a gangster, on the run,
You will stagger home, to your precious one" Refers to the woman changing her real name to sleep around because she doesn't want her real name to get out or be known...
Then, when she's finished whoring around she staggers home to her precious husband..
I think it's cool how he says "on the counter, by your keys, was a book of numbers, and your remedies."
This references back to the ambiguity in "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" about whether a "number" refers to a phone number or a joint. It could be either: a phone number for a friend or a joint can "screen out the sorrow." But the fact that the "numbers" are near the "remedies" definitely suggests a joint, although again, it's ambiguous.
I love how they are referencing themselves, and especially a lyric from the past that was itself ambiguous. And now the same lyric is ambiguous in the same way, many albums later! This band is incredible.
Yeah, I think it is a friend who gets called to console the woman who cheats on her husband...
Yeah, I think it is a friend who gets called to console the woman who cheats on her husband...
She probably meets this guy to confess all the bad things she's done...but it has happened so many times it's become routine and shallow.
She probably meets this guy to confess all the bad things she's done...but it has happened so many times it's become routine and shallow.
"You should know, how all the pros play the game, You change your name Like a gangster, on the run, You will stagger home, to your precious one" Refers to the woman changing her real name to sleep around because she doesn't want her real name to get out or be known... Then, when she's finished whoring around she staggers home to her precious husband..
Pretty straight forward I think.