The method acting that pays my bills
Keeps the fat man feeding in Beverly Hills;
method-actors go to some awful extremes to really get into their character's skins, Elliott is humourously refering to his drug-use as method-acting because he writes songs about it and it sells. People love it; they buy it and this is what makes the fat man, probably head of a record label he's signed to rich and happy. Here is a quote from Kierkegaard whom I know Elliott was a fan of because he named his albulm after one of his books:
"What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.'"
– Søren Kierkegaard (Either - Or)
It's Christmas time;
Christmas is the combination of the two things that America loves most; Christianity and consumerism, its is the hardest holiday not to use; when everyone else is made happy by material objects: things that don't bring you any joy at all, all you want to do is get high
And the needles on the tree
A skinny Santa is bringing something to me
His voice is overwhelming
But his speech is slurred
And I only understand every other word;
this parts rather obvious no need to explain it
Open your parachute and grab your gun:
in the westcoast tar comes wraps in a peice of plastic twisted and sealed off, this is called a parachute, your gun is your needle
Falling down like an omen, a setting sun
Read the part and we turn out fine
It's a hell of a role if you can keep it alive;
it's a hell of a role: the ups and the downs of junkie life are are more extreme than any non-junkie's life, but the price you pay is that it'll kill you sooner or later
But I don't care if I fuck up
I'm going on a date
With a rich white lady
Ain't life great?;
a rich white lady is China White, you normally only find it on the East Coast and thereabouts unless one of your friends goes on a trip there and bring some back
The method acting that pays my bills Keeps the fat man feeding in Beverly Hills; method-actors go to some awful extremes to really get into their character's skins, Elliott is humourously refering to his drug-use as method-acting because he writes songs about it and it sells. People love it; they buy it and this is what makes the fat man, probably head of a record label he's signed to rich and happy. Here is a quote from Kierkegaard whom I know Elliott was a fan of because he named his albulm after one of his books: "What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.'" – Søren Kierkegaard (Either - Or) It's Christmas time; Christmas is the combination of the two things that America loves most; Christianity and consumerism, its is the hardest holiday not to use; when everyone else is made happy by material objects: things that don't bring you any joy at all, all you want to do is get high And the needles on the tree A skinny Santa is bringing something to me His voice is overwhelming But his speech is slurred And I only understand every other word; this parts rather obvious no need to explain it Open your parachute and grab your gun: in the westcoast tar comes wraps in a peice of plastic twisted and sealed off, this is called a parachute, your gun is your needle Falling down like an omen, a setting sun Read the part and we turn out fine It's a hell of a role if you can keep it alive; it's a hell of a role: the ups and the downs of junkie life are are more extreme than any non-junkie's life, but the price you pay is that it'll kill you sooner or later But I don't care if I fuck up I'm going on a date With a rich white lady Ain't life great?; a rich white lady is China White, you normally only find it on the East Coast and thereabouts unless one of your friends goes on a trip there and bring some back