| Andrew Bird – Fitz and the Dizzyspells Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I'm almost positive it's "nightshade gets in it," and this makes sense in context. Nightshade is a family of plants, some of which are poisonous to humans and are known to cause things like hallucinations. An aubergine is another word for an eggplant, which is actually a type of nightshade. Eggplants obviously don't normally cause hallucinations, but I'm sure he just liked the word aubergine. Thus, "you woke us from the strangest dream that an aubergine could ever know" is a reference to hallucinations caused by the nightshade. I don't know what the actual metaphor is behind that, but it's pretty. | |
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