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Goldfish Bowl Lyrics
The same long faces in the workman's hall
Caramel crisp counts his birds
Cliff chip's lines up his dominoes
Kingfisher lead singer calms his nerves
I'm drinking sinking swimming
I'm drowning working smirking learning
I'm burning sleeping thieving cheating beating
I'm eating
I'm deep in a goldfish bowl It's sink or swim
The hall down town just burns to the ground
My boxing ring turned to ash
Red head ginger bread sells tickets at the door
Stella sleep walks in the sand
I'm drinking sinking swimming
I'm drowning working smirking learning
I'm burning sleeping thieving cheating beating
I'm eating
I'm deep in a goldfish bowl It's sink or swim
They're looking in
They're looking in
Hard up outta luck time to ride the village bike
A bike been used ten times or more
Grape vine here's the wife lays down
her royal flush
I think I've lost another wife
I'm drinking sinking swimming
I'm drowning working smirking learning
I'm burning sleeping thieving cheating beating
I'm eating
I'm deep in a goldfish bowl It's sink or swim
They're looking in
Sink or swim
Caramel crisp counts his birds
Cliff chip's lines up his dominoes
Kingfisher lead singer calms his nerves
I'm drowning working smirking learning
I'm burning sleeping thieving cheating beating
I'm eating
I'm deep in a goldfish bowl It's sink or swim
My boxing ring turned to ash
Red head ginger bread sells tickets at the door
Stella sleep walks in the sand
I'm drowning working smirking learning
I'm burning sleeping thieving cheating beating
I'm eating
I'm deep in a goldfish bowl It's sink or swim
They're looking in
A bike been used ten times or more
Grape vine here's the wife lays down
her royal flush
I think I've lost another wife
I'm drowning working smirking learning
I'm burning sleeping thieving cheating beating
I'm eating
I'm deep in a goldfish bowl It's sink or swim
They're looking in
Sink or swim
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Submitted by
k-nuxxx On Jul 15, 2005
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This is a song about the close knit community that kelly grew up in where everyone knows everyone elses business (kellys dad was the lead singer in a band called the kingfishers) theres no secrets and sometimes its just like living in a goldfish bowl, one of my favorites and the first riff i learnt to play on the guitar!!!
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I love this song, but i have no idea what it means. Maybe the person before me is right, does anyone else know?
well from what I know, life in a "Goldfish Bowl" means everyone is looking at you or better yet knows who you are. So what I think Kelly is trying to say here is that he might be a little insecure, hence the lines: "I'm drinking, sinking, swimming, drowning, working, smirking, learning, burning, sleeping, thieving, cheating, beating, I'm eating I'm deep in a goldfish bowl." He might be a little anxious about all of these activities he does.