| The Mountain Goats – Marduk T-Shirt Men's Room Incident Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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It seems pretty simple to me. The narrator goes into the mensroom and sees a young woman, either very drunk or drugged, leaning against the wall. There's an implication that she's been sexually assaulted but he doesn't make this explicit. He feels compassion for her and imagines how it would feel if she were the partner to whom he's addressing the song. He washes his hands in very hot water because whatever it was that happened to her makes him feel dirty. I don't see that he's saying she's dirty or disgusting...after all he makes it very clear that he considers her blameless. Oddly, I found it rather a beautiful song. it may have been the melody, or his attitude, or both. |
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