| Birds of Tokyo – The Saddest Thing I Know Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This definately sounds like a person has been mixing drugs and alcohol with gambling. "how long you been asleep at the wheel" meaning how long has he been stuck on the same gambling machine gathering up speed. So it's non stop consuming alcohol and gambling "Race me for tail or for hits" is the gambling part of things. "Your numbers are come up now your king of the town" At a start he's hitting up big money, and he feels amazed by the amount that he's winning. Closer to the end it's now beginning to speak on the persons' downfall. He keeps coming back for more but is out of luck. He keeps "stumbling to the floor" The alcohol and the drugs are getting to his head. Drawing to the end, he's not looking so good, he doesn't know when to stop. "Your body is a wreck and your mind is amiss" "I know what you want I think this is it" Possibly saying he can't go further, by being so intoxicated with drugs and alcohol, and losing everything that he had, he wants to be "put out of his misery", as to what Orichalcon So I agree with both Orichalcon and travarizza opinions |
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