Jonathon Fisk

Pitchfork: What about some of the songs. Who’s “Jonathan Fisk” based on? There seems to be some resentment there.

Britt: Just this guy who beat me up in middle school relentlessly. The kind of guy that would roll your house and shoe polish your driveway. You know, and make fun you of in the cafeteria, and try and harass you after school on the way home.

"just another way to be right wing" it's a sin, but they don't think twice. I've just gained more respect for Spoon.

Pitchfork: What about some of the songs. Who’s “Jonathan Fisk” based on? There seems to be some resentment there.

Britt: Just this guy who beat me up in middle school relentlessly. The kind of guy that would roll your house and shoe polish your driveway. You know, and make fun you of in the cafeteria, and try and harass you after school on the way home.

kind of sounds like an older guy, is beating up a younger one, to make him believe in the things he does...

The lyrics are wrong. It's definitely not "Jonathon Fisk speaks with his first" it's "fist". Also, "I wanna get him all back now" not "I wanna get all back now"

Also:

MAYBE you remember..

Also, "atom bombs and BLUNT razors".

From the Spoon site:

JONATHON FISK

MAYBE YOU REMEMBER MAYBE YOU’RE LOCKED AWAY MAYBE WE’LL MEET AGAIN SOME BETTER DAY SOME BETTER LIFE

MMMM JONATHON FISK SPEAKS WITH HIS FISTS CAN’T LET ME WALK HOME ON MY OWN AND JUST LIKE A KNIFE DOWN ON MY LIFE SO MANY WAYS TO SET ME RIGHT

IT’S SUCH A LONG WAY HOME IT’S HOW THE STORY GOES AND IT’S LIKE ATOM BOMBS AND BLUNT RAZORS ATOM BOMBS AND BLUNT RAZORS

JONATHON THEN SAYS IT’S A SIN BUT HE DON’T THINK TWICE CAUSE TO HIM RELIGION DON’T MEAN A THING IT’S JUST ANOTHER WAY TO BE RIGHT WING JUST LIKE A KNIFE DOWN ON MY LIFE SO MANY WAYS TO SET IT RIGHT THAT’S HOW IT GOES THAT’S HOW THE STORY GOES

IT’S SUCH A LONG WAY HOME YOU’RE TOO OLD TO UNDERSTAND CAUSE I JUST WANT TO GET HOME NOW I JUST WANT TO GET HOME NOW

JONATHON’S RIGHT DOWN ON MY LIFE SO MANY WAYS TO SET ME RIGHT ON THE LONG WALK HOME THAT’S HOW THE STORY GOES AND JONATHON FISK ALWAYS A RISK TELLS ME HE COUNTS MY TEETH EVERY NIGHT I WANT TO GET THEM ALL BACK NOW I WANT TO GET THEM ALL BACK AND I WANT TO TURN HIM AROUND

Johnathan Fisk was a writer. He wrote about satiric essays about reforms in Ireland. This was all during English occupation. I think he was a priest, too. His most famous work was A Modest Proposal. It was a satire saying that eating children would be the answer to the starving countries problems.

never mind my bad that was Johnathan Swift

if i had to choose a favorite, this would be my favorite spoon song.