| Barenaked Ladies – What A Good Boy Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Some things are clear. The narrator feel crushed beneath the expectations of others. He's written this song for a woman he's known for a long time, hoping that she'll comfort him in his his loneliness. My interpretation hinges on the bit about the hair shirt and the cross: His name is the hair shirt? Woven from her brown hair? The song is his cross? She should bare it with him? Interesting... The analogies could just as easily been reversed; and the implication would be clear. The song could be the hair shirt - his name the cross. In that case the song would amount to a proposal. This is not the case. He wants her to be with him tonight (only) not from now on. |
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