Does anyone know what this song means? Any guesses?
We skipped the light fandango Turned cartwheels cross the floor I was feeling kinda seasick But the crowd called out for more The room was humming harder As the ceiling flew away When we called out for another drink The waiter brought a tray
And so it was that later As the miller told his tale That her face, at first just ghostly, Turned a whiter shade of pale She said, there is no reason And the truth is plain to see. But I wandered through my playing cards And would not let her be One of sixteen vestal virgins Who were leaving for the coast And although my eyes were open They might have just as wellve been closed She said, Im home on shore leave, Though in truth we were at sea So I took her by the looking glass And forced her to agree Saying, you must be the mermaid Who took neptune for a ride. But she smiled at me so sadly That my anger straightway died
If music be the food of love Then laughter is its queen And likewise if behind is in front Then dirt in truth is clean My mouth by then like cardboard Seemed to slip straight through my head So we crash-dived straightway quickly And attacked the ocean bed.
― Barb e., Saturday, 5 April 2008 08:41 (seventeen years ago)
That some people drown in primal urges brought on by the destabilization of life perspectives?
So primal urges being the drinking and cartwheeling and general partying that this guys getting into - also blaming woman and attacking the ocean bed.
Destabilized perspective being things like the ceiling flying away, clean dirt and behind being in front.
Partying out at sea provides the idea of an unstable place to drown.
Thats sort of clunkily stringing it together for me :)
― Sam G, Monday, 7 April 2008 05:40 (seventeen years ago)
Awesome.
― bamcquern, Sunday, 11 May 2008 19:47 (seventeen years ago)
I have to confess that I had to peak at the lyrics to finally hear “and so it was that later.”
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:59 (four years ago)