I saw the Mountain Goats in Leeds last night, and before this song John explained it with something along the lines of the following; 'You have friends and you think that they're the greatest people in the world, but there comes a time when you realise, all at once or it can come upon you gradually, that your friends aren't the greatest people in the world but they're actually parasites sucking the blood from you - not because they need the blood but just for their own entertainment. And then you have like one friend on your shoulder saying you're just being neurotic, your friends are great, and yourself in the middle saying 'no they're not, look at the facts''.
I saw the Mountain Goats in Leeds last night, and before this song John explained it with something along the lines of the following; 'You have friends and you think that they're the greatest people in the world, but there comes a time when you realise, all at once or it can come upon you gradually, that your friends aren't the greatest people in the world but they're actually parasites sucking the blood from you - not because they need the blood but just for their own entertainment. And then you have like one friend on your shoulder saying you're just being neurotic, your friends are great, and yourself in the middle saying 'no they're not, look at the facts''.