Death To Everyone

Well, it appears to me as though its meaning is simple enough. It is about birth, life, and death. I am not going to go through every verse but for example; the first verse is about sex, a woman's need to get pregnant before her time passes, ejaculaton "coming kids are raging." I could be wrong but if you look at the song in the terms of birth, life, and, death the pieces fit rather nicely. I am sure slightly deeper meaning exists but I think they are more or less subtle clues as to the author's true characteristics. Or this could be a bunch of b.s.

The brilliance here is in the simplicity and, as in many of his songs, the way he celebrates the drama of living and dying by kinda laughing at it. He means "fucking" by hosing. He's hardly the first person to point out the primal connection between sex and death. He is definitely the first to point it out in a cheerful way I can sing along to at work though, and bless him for it.

oldham said specifically that "hosing" means "having sexual intercourse"

so it's a happy song. :)

urbandictionary.com calls hosing "verb: the act of fornication with no regard for the pleasure of the recipient. Usually accompanied by alcohol (see Jack Daniels hosing) and characterized by frenetic intensity."

and whether this is just a joke slang or not, i think it could fit well with the idea of having sex that's frenzied and intense because of how fleeting life is.

I have to say, there is a slang. i and people i knew in my younger days, for hosing; which simply meant to give a snappy or crippling joke on someone (usually a friend)...."you were totally hosed!" I just think that oldham's simplicity is his gift. While he is obviously well read( i.e. Heidegger, it was true what one poster wrote about the dif. between dread and fear), it does not mean he has much hidden in hopes of allusion or inference. I think. it would lead to a more simple everyday joy in life being praised. I think.

why fear death when you're given so much time do whatever you want with the world?

this song is a tough read, as I can see it as anything from post-apocalypse (hosing!) to anyday life. I have to say the lines every terrible thing / is a relief even months on end / buried in grief are easy, light times / which have to end with the coming / of your death friend always make me chuckle.

So what's with the burning balls and the coming kids?

I love the 'our own god bottle s'within reach' bit. Sort of reminds me of Marx (Religion is the opium of the people), the idea of humanity doing whatever it needs to do to live life despite that death is always approaching. Love the song, but don't listen to it when you are on the down.

hosing = masturbating. rock.