Plastic Jungle

ok, i think the song is about him living an evil life or a life of crime and wants to be killed b/c of it.

being "born into money" can make a person spoiled and commanding. his family abandoned him b/c of his evil ways. he might of committed a crime to be sent to jail, where he was "choked by the jailor". "fucked the gorilla".... i think gorilla is referring to the army, and gorilla warfare of the Vietnam. so he refused the draft. he "ran through the country" escaping prison. "ahead of his time"... time to die or get caught by the army. "escaped through a keyhole"... to escape through a keyhole you would have to be very small and it would be vary difficult b/c of all the mechanisms that are in a keyhole. i think that symbolizes a very narrow escape from the army, probably to canada. "before they erase me" they would erase him by sending him off to Vietnam to die.

we then go back to the c male beetles have to kill other male beetles in order to win over the female beetle. "I married the beetle" means he had to kill people in order to mary a very high class woman. "learned to be graceful" to fit in and hide his past from the other high class people. "It's why all this warfare pours out of my eyes." he obviously hides his evil past and grotesque deeds in his actions with his gracefulness, but if you look into his eyes you see his evil soul.

"now i see just what you mean" someone must have warned him early on in life not to go down the path of evil. "it hurts to much to breath" it basically means its hard to live. now "plastic jungle"... plastic as in synthetic, this jungle he is talking about is man made and created by the human society. and a jungle ecosystem is vary harsh in the fact that it has a lot of predators and is very violent. so in conclusion, a plastic jungle is a man made society of violent predators, in witch he is all alone in to fend for himself. when he says he wants to be "slain" he is saying he wants to die, but he DOSE NOT want to commit suicide. he has to much pride in himself. he wants someone else to come along and "Slay" him. he says "Slain" and not killed of murdered for a reason. in story books that take place in mediaeval time, the knight in shining armor SLAYS the EVIL dragon. he is hinting at the fact that he knows he is evil and he wants to be slain b/c of it.

"she told me she loved me"... its obvious that she loves him and she can come out and say it to him. "i didn't believe her"... he cant believe her b/c he believes there is to much evil in the world for love to exist. "son of a junkie" she was born lower class. "is ancient korean" so she was born in korea, and this time period is during or shortly after the vietnam war, witch came after the korean war. so being lower class she had to fight her way up to the top in order to come to canada, so she too is vicious. "but don't blame the girl she is out of her mind" living with this man and loving him has driven her insane.

and the chorus repeats again.

im either really good at decoding the meaning of songs or i read into things to much. i think its the second one.