I'm just guessing here but,,,
Drop Dead Suit is slang for a murder charge
Dutch Pink can be either blood or slang for captured alone (alone as in going "dutch", and pink - for awhile it was short for captured by the Pinkerton Detective Agency)
Stepping on the devil's tail definitely means dabbling in some sort of illegal or immoral activity
The stripes of a full moon's head through the bars of a Cuban jail: moonlight through cell bars looks like stripes on the floor (Been there, done that), and Full Moon's Head refers to the face of the man-in-the-moon
My thoughts are that the song is about a cabby who inadvertently ferried a mobster or hit-man around town. Only after a crime was committed did the cabby realize what was up but it was too late to back out. He then got blind drunk to ease his conscience. The lyrics represent his statement to the police while in a drunken stupor.
Edna Million war eine berühmte Schriftstellerin, die 1923 den Pulizerpreis gewonnen hat. Sie war unter Anderem Bisexuell, hatte eine Freundin und gleichzeitig
Edna Million war eine berühmte Schriftstellerin, die 1923 den Pulizerpreis gewonnen hat. Sie war unter Anderem Bisexuell, hatte eine Freundin und gleichzeitig
I'm just guessing here but,,, Drop Dead Suit is slang for a murder charge
Dutch Pink can be either blood or slang for captured alone (alone as in going "dutch", and pink - for awhile it was short for captured by the Pinkerton Detective Agency)
Stepping on the devil's tail definitely means dabbling in some sort of illegal or immoral activity
The stripes of a full moon's head through the bars of a Cuban jail: moonlight through cell bars looks like stripes on the floor (Been there, done that), and Full Moon's Head refers to the face of the man-in-the-moon
My thoughts are that the song is about a cabby who inadvertently ferried a mobster or hit-man around town. Only after a crime was committed did the cabby realize what was up but it was too late to back out. He then got blind drunk to ease his conscience. The lyrics represent his statement to the police while in a drunken stupor.
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. :-)
Edna Million war eine berühmte Schriftstellerin, die 1923 den Pulizerpreis gewonnen hat. Sie war unter Anderem Bisexuell, hatte eine Freundin und gleichzeitig
Edna Million war eine berühmte Schriftstellerin, die 1923 den Pulizerpreis gewonnen hat. Sie war unter Anderem Bisexuell, hatte eine Freundin und gleichzeitig