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Tending my fruit, tending my fruit
Ah, you've got to have a hobby
A man must have a shed to keep him sane

Spraying my buds, spraying my buds
Got to keep away diseases
I mix the poisons and the wife don't complain

Some people say
That I am out of my tree
Or just a strawberry fool
Someday they'll see
Till then I'll blow you a raspberry
'Cos apples and pears are me

So I'm tending my fruit
And I don't give a hoot
'Cos it keeps me sane, it keeps me sane

Some people say
That I am out of my tree
Or just a strawberry fool
Someday they'll see
Till then I'll blow you a raspberry
'Cos apples and pears are me

So I'm tending my fruit, tending my fruit
Ah, you've got to have a hobby
A man must have a shed to keep him sane
To keep him sane
To keep him sane
To keep him sane
To keep him sane
Oh, the wife can't complain
To keep him sane
To keep him sane
Yeah keeps him sane
To keep him sane
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Cover art for Fruit Nut lyrics by XTC

Just what it says. It's about a fellow who loves to garden, and his wife feels uncared for because he's too busy gardening to pay attention to her

Cover art for Fruit Nut lyrics by XTC

This song is awesome. It sounds pleasant and cheerful and not at all wrong at first, but it gets creepier once you think about it.

It's about a guy who is completely psychotic. He believes that he cannot possibly be insane, since he's got a hobby that keeps him sane. He tells this to himself constantly.

His wife cannot complain because she is dead. He murdered her, likely by poisoning her with pesticides. He stuffed her in the shed, so that he'll never see her rotting corpse, hence, why a man must have a shed to keep him sane. Otherwise it'll be out there in plain sight, and it'd be more difficult for him to keep up his delusions of sanity.

People are trying to get him to get some help, since they've seen that his behavior is extremely erratic, but he refuses to listen to a word they say. He possibly plans to kill them too. ("Someday they'll see . . .")

Fantastically demented song.

Cover art for Fruit Nut lyrics by XTC

OMG! I thought it was a song about masturbation!

 
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