New York City soothing my itchy itchy month of May
Time has passed for Ms. Onassis, decay on display

I don't want to go down
I don't want to go down
I don't want to go down like she did

And I can't understand why something
Good's got to die before we miss it

Mumbled talk through pigeon park
And Hastings is wasting away
Religiously they seem to sin
Buy, sell or trade for amens

I just don't want to feel
I just don't want to feel
I just don't want to feel like they feel

Hollow body for sound, trade a coat for a gown

Way up in my arms you know
I love you just a little bit more

Raisin' nose down to chin
Smoke after smoke they all trickle in
Anything, for anything, and ending up with nothing

Simple pimpled young man
Sores all over his hands
He's sleeping, not so silently

I'll mop the floors for you all
I'm a fly on the wall
Really big and listening

Burned a hand of a friend of mine
And Bub I know that you could fly a mile high
You told me nothing's ever gonna come between
Nothing's ever gonna come between
Nothing's ever gonna come between

My dumptruck and me


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    So many references to drug use, namely heroin. rather than attempting to analyze the lyrics of this song for meaning, i thought i'd simply interpret some of the language that Hoon used in the song that most people will not understand, since it involves a drug culture that they are not themselves part of or familiar with. Thus, i have provided the following for others to help them decipher whatever meaning they might find:

    "...soothing my itchy itchy month of May" because opiates make you itch...alot "...pigeon park" probably where he scored dope "way up in my arms you know i love you just a little bit more" obviously talking about shooting dope, and either that he loves dope more or that he loves better when he's had dope "raisin' nose down to chin smoke after smoke they all trickle in" this may be the snobs who look down on junkies, only to eventually "trickle in" themselves; also, nose down to chin may refer to nodding out, in which a person's head will always be down "anything for anything and ending up with nothing" because the junkie will do anything for anything and always lose everything "simple pimpled young man sores all over his hands, he's sleeping not so silently" junkies who shoot up often get abcesses or pimples on their faces, hands, arms, all over really, and sleeping may be referring to nodding out "i know that you could fly a mile high" could refer to someone with a really high tolerance, who can get really high but needs alot more dope and finally "nothing is ever gonna come between my dumptruck and me" i thought about this one and i'm not so sure about the language here, but i picture the "dumptruck" also a reference to heroin, because another name for heroin is "junk." junk goes in a dumptruck and nothing is gonna come between a junkie and his junk.

    cgStarlingon April 22, 2012   Link

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