| Cake – Baskets Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Well, I think the line 'He'll go to buy her turtle wax" is simply referring to an every-day activity. Just a hum-drum, every day occurrence that is likely to happen in a comfortable relationship like McCrae is alluding to. It could have been anything, like, he'll go buy groceries, or walk the dog, or whatever. It's his little respite from the lie he's living in his loveless yet comfortable relationship. I think McCrae used the phrase turtle wax because it's sort of an indicator of Americana, of simple people doing simple things in their simple lives that they might not be totally happy with. Also, and this is just my opinion, the lyric sounds really good right there in the song, so it fits. | |
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