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Goldfish And Paracetamol Lyrics
A dead loss, no songs
No fun, just glum
Lying next to someone
So don't mention the War
Don't question where we stand
Or where we fall
North, South, East where's best?
If I head left
It turns out directionless
And needle point aside
I always find
Embroidery leaves me blind
Cos I'm too weary to rest
Since I noticed
Coming second best is close to ideal
What fools boredom breeds
So much to do
So many goldfish to feed
And paracetamol
I’ll take them all
They line my stomach wall
Chorus
With customary thirst
I search a water glass
But gin hits first
Oh don't believe the hype
Expectancy will always spoil a party
It's tourniquet by crochet
My waters break
Don't drive for pity's sake
Chorus
No fun, just glum
Lying next to someone
So don't mention the War
Don't question where we stand
Or where we fall
North, South, East where's best?
If I head left
It turns out directionless
And needle point aside
I always find
Embroidery leaves me blind
Cos I'm too weary to rest
Since I noticed
Coming second best is close to ideal
What fools boredom breeds
So much to do
So many goldfish to feed
And paracetamol
I’ll take them all
They line my stomach wall
Chorus
With customary thirst
I search a water glass
But gin hits first
Oh don't believe the hype
Expectancy will always spoil a party
It's tourniquet by crochet
My waters break
Don't drive for pity's sake
Chorus
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My sister and I spent hours trying to figure out what this song meant back then in the late 90s... ok, here's the result of our research:
This song is told from the POV of a dead woman. A ghost. During a depression, she mixed pills and alcohol and took the car for a drive. She crashed and now she's dead, 'lying next to someone', and surrounded by the spirits of other dead people 'don't mention the war, don't question where we stand, or where we fall'. She somehow feels sorry for what she did, and finally, she warns us from the afterlife 'don't believe the hype, expectancy will always spoil the party', meaning the 'other side' might not be like we believe or imagine it to be.
Now, that IS a far fetched interpretation!
That's a really good interpretation, Welsh-bard, I agree with the meaning you promulgate...
There's a number of references to domesticity that she throws in that build on the idea. The only needle that doesn't leave her 'blind' is a hypodermic one... and I thought 'It's tourniquet by crochet' expressed the feeling of being strangled (or at least constricted, as if by tourniquet) by mundane household chores (crochetting) and the life that accompanies them..
i think its about depression... amounsgt other things...
"A dead loss, no songs No fun, just glum Lying next to someone"
Remorse and disillusionment after sleeping with a stranger
"So don't mention the War "
humorous imperitive from Fawlty Towers, not sure why its relevant
"North, South, East where's best?": feeling of being lost
"And needle point aside": double meaning (compass point and hypodermic needle)
"What fools boredom breeds": sex leading to "goldfish", or kids
"Oh don't believe the hype Expectancy will always spoil a party"
Despite all the hype saying that you can still have fun while pregnant, it puts a real damper on things.
Basically, its about sleeping around, getting pregnant, seeing your funloving young life disappearing out the window thanks to being a single mom, resorting to alchohol and drugs to cope. Kinda sad really.
I think that the reference to
I think that the reference to
"So don't mention the War "
"So don't mention the War "
Isn't particularly from Fawlty Towers, though it was used in that it is pretty common (though less so in recent years) in common parlance it's a sort of 'be careful you don't offend' - usually towards someone you don't know that well.
Isn't particularly from Fawlty Towers, though it was used in that it is pretty common (though less so in recent years) in common parlance it's a sort of 'be careful you don't offend' - usually towards someone you don't know that well.
I suppose it works quite well as the girl in the song is waking up to a stranger and can't probably remember anything of who s/he is and and anything about them.
I suppose it works quite well as the girl in the song is waking up to a stranger and can't probably remember anything of who s/he is and and anything about them.
There is also a curious "outro" to this song.
There is also a curious "outro" to this song.
I love this song, can't stop listening to it. I think it could be about depresison, sleeping with strangers, all self destruct
"And paracetamol I’ll take them all They line my stomach wall With customary thirst I search a water glass But gin hits first"
Story of my life