Poor boy
Why don't you try getting water?
Poor boy
Why don't you try getting sleep?
I think if one of us is going to suffer
Why shouldn't it be me?
Poor boy
Your wife is in hard labor
The rhythm you know
Is pulsing and drifting to the grave
When you come to
You'll be asking yourself one question
Was I always this way?
Think back a year
When everything stood at the surface
But bandage your cuts 'cause you don't know what swims underneath
Hold tight
The bondage of this life is slipping
And why shouldn't it be me?
When I come back
You'll be the brightest star
In the black
When there are days
You want the call we're all waiting for
Think back
Poor boy
Your wife is in hard labor
Go buy the flowers you'll leave on its grave
You went with a goal of movement
Now one thing is different
You don't want to change
I don't want to change
Why don't you try getting water?
Poor boy
Why don't you try getting sleep?
I think if one of us is going to suffer
Why shouldn't it be me?
Poor boy
Your wife is in hard labor
The rhythm you know
Is pulsing and drifting to the grave
When you come to
You'll be asking yourself one question
Was I always this way?
Think back a year
When everything stood at the surface
But bandage your cuts 'cause you don't know what swims underneath
Hold tight
The bondage of this life is slipping
And why shouldn't it be me?
When I come back
You'll be the brightest star
In the black
When there are days
You want the call we're all waiting for
Think back
Poor boy
Your wife is in hard labor
Go buy the flowers you'll leave on its grave
You went with a goal of movement
Now one thing is different
You don't want to change
I don't want to change
Lyrics submitted by rockerbabe99, edited by joehigley
Poor Boy Lyrics as written by Aaron Nebeker
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I see it as two possible meanings. The first more literal about the poor boy's wife dying in labor. "The rhythm you know is pulsing and drifting to the grave"-the wife is the rhythm he knows and she is slowly drifting towards death. "hold tight, the bondage of this life is slipping why shouldn't it be me" is another reference towards his dying wife. He wishes he was in her place [i think if one of us is going to suffer why shouldn't it be me?].
The second meaning is more metaphorical. The "life" in this song is their relationship and it is slowly dying. "you'll be asking yourself just one question was i always this way?" could be the boy's realization that he hasn't really done his best in the relationship and caused many of the problems they faced. "you don't want to change, I don't want to change" is another reference to how their relationship is dying. neither of them want to change anything they're doing to possibly make everything better.
Just a few brief thoughts. Hopefully y'all will see where I'm coming from, I don't feel like typing a novel:) haha
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Maybe if he'd remove his penis from a young woman's vagina his non-existant relationship with someone else would not be dying. Then again, since it exists only in his mind it can't really die, now can it. I hear a beer calling your name and can sense a girl blowing in your ear. You may want to get off-line so she'll put out later tonight. Don't forget to play that fun song (once she's asleep) about wanting her to awaken soon so you can boink her again:) That's a classic just as you are! Nighty Nighty. So glad I could leave you with my sentiment. Glad to get it off my chest. Now return to her's before she decides you're too dependent on technology.
Where did all this come from?
No kidding...
Man, that bitch must have had too much to drink! Freaky!!!