I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Trapped in a box by a cockney nutjob
'Ave a cup of tea, 'ave a cup of tea
I'm the hitcher
Let me put you in the picture
Creeping in your room in the dead of night
With me solo polo vision
(that's right)
I'm a cockney geezer
Watch me bleed ya
I knew the ripper, when he was just a nipper
I taught him how to slice
I cut him up a treat
Pound your banana (two pound your pear)
Pound your banana (two pound your pear)
Pound your banana (two pound your pear)
14 shillings for your melons (oh yeah)
(We're the Piper twins
We're Jim and Jackie Piper
Cutting through the night like a windscreen
Wiping you away, like raindrops
Don't mess with the boys)
Shut your noise
Coming in strong like a freakshow nightmare
Dancing skeletons - white, blue and yella uns
Moving through the shadows with the speed of a cat
And if you cross us weÃll cut ya
And you ain't gonna like that...
I'm bad juju
I use voodoo if I choose to
I harness the forces of evil to abuse you
With power, a polo, an evil magnet
Sucking up your soul
And you ain't gonna like that.
'Ave a cup of tea, 'ave a cup of tea
I'm the hitcher
Let me put you in the picture
Creeping in your room in the dead of night
With me solo polo vision
(that's right)
I'm a cockney geezer
Watch me bleed ya
I knew the ripper, when he was just a nipper
I taught him how to slice
I cut him up a treat
Pound your banana (two pound your pear)
Pound your banana (two pound your pear)
Pound your banana (two pound your pear)
14 shillings for your melons (oh yeah)
(We're the Piper twins
We're Jim and Jackie Piper
Cutting through the night like a windscreen
Wiping you away, like raindrops
Don't mess with the boys)
Shut your noise
Coming in strong like a freakshow nightmare
Dancing skeletons - white, blue and yella uns
Moving through the shadows with the speed of a cat
And if you cross us weÃll cut ya
And you ain't gonna like that...
I'm bad juju
I use voodoo if I choose to
I harness the forces of evil to abuse you
With power, a polo, an evil magnet
Sucking up your soul
And you ain't gonna like that.
Lyrics submitted by EL BASTARDDO, edited by ElectroBooshGirlInDisguise17
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I think its: i'm a cockney geezer, watch me blled ya. I knew the ripper when he was just a nipper.
And in the end bit its with power, a polo and an evil magnet.
Surely "fourteen shillings for yer melon"!
yeah, those lyrics are just so wrong. but that songs amazing so its okay.
the hitcher is brilliant....
i hope he didn't do the ripper...
it's "A power, a POLO" isn't it? And soes snyone remember the lyrics to the Piper Teins bit form the TV version?
Yes. "im a cockney geezer, watch me bleed ya, i knew the ripper when he was just a nipper" Who the frig typed out these lyrics. All wrong.
And its not called trapped in a box. its called "Im the hitcher" Nerr.
The other version is 99% accurate, but its got the wrong title.
It also has the piper twins verse... "We're the piper twins, Jim and Jackie Piper cutting through the night like a windscreen wiping you away like rain drops dont mess with the boys" Shut your noise
Heh, I always thought this was "Badger Banana! (too bad ya deead!)" I suppose that makes more sense..
lol, this is awesome! o bad the lyrics are wrong, but the song is awesome. love it :D
Pound your banana (two pound your pear) Pound your banana (two pound your pear) Pound your banana (two pound your pear) Cor me shivers with your melons...oh yeah
...its 40 shillings for your melons...oh yeah!
im not just nitpicking.. but its a funny line... get it right :P
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