In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Get on to the bus
That's gonna take you back to Beelzebub
Get on to the bus
That's gonna make you stop going rub a dub
Your words burn the air
Like the names of candy bars
Your mouth is cold and red
All in rings around your
Laugh laughing laughs
It's a grind grind
It's a grind
It's a grind grind
I'll scratch you raw
L'etat see'est moi
I drink the drink
And I'm wall to wall
I absorb trust like a love rhombus
I feel I must elucidate
I ate the chump with guile
Quadrilateral I was
Now I warp like a smile
Yellow no. 5
Yellow no. 5, 5, 5
Voulez-vous the bus?
That's gonna take you back to Beelzebub
Get on to the bus
That's gonna make you stop going rub a dub
Your words burn the air
Like the names of candy bars
Your mouth is cold and red
All in rings around your
Laugh laughing laughs
It's a grind grind
It's a grind
It's a grind grind
I'll scratch you raw
L'etat see'est moi
I drink the drink
And I'm wall to wall
I absorb trust like a love rhombus
I feel I must elucidate
I ate the chump with guile
Quadrilateral I was
Now I warp like a smile
Yellow no. 5
Yellow no. 5, 5, 5
Voulez-vous the bus?
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Everyone's right, but I think Doughty's heroin period was largely after he wrote the songs for Ruby Vroom, so it could be someone else - which makes sense because a lot of its second person. But that's contradicted by "scratch myself raw", which is definitely smackhead behavior with a reflexive pronoun. And "I am the state", which makes Doughty Louis XIV the Sun King - or just very high. . Rub a dub is both an opioid person's traditional aversion to bathing and a reference to trying to stay clean. The one thing I can't fit in is yellow # 5, and I don't think its there for any reason other than to be dangerous, artificial color that sounds good when he repeats it.