Imaginary Places

Lyrics, from his MySpace:

"Im just here to hold your hand till you die And to show you around imaginary places Put money lumps in my bloody stump And I will have a smile thats a perfect circle Die in your sleep with the sky at your feet Im shoot you when youre happy, only then will you find peace How do you do, I dont know Im okay Every person I know is a secret service agent Because Ive been accused of lewd conduct Stole the heart of a prude prom slut And they got the warrant for my arrest to put me in the loony bin, the funny farm Cuz of what I did

But Im just here to hold your hand as you die There is not a single person who can do it better No needle skipping in my ecosystem But in the audience may be an evil Christian HMO how I hate him so (he)Wants to charge me for a halo But Im on a scavenger hunt for a lavender chunk Of the sky, maybe Ill replace it with a mud-pie I put dead songs on a silk screen Buy my shirt it is a killed dream It is known to lead the way to the stairwell to Gods administrative office And a final farewell

Im just here to hold your hand when you die And to give your assault rifle a banana clip Glow in the dark when I stroll in the park Giving everybody informative pamphlets No sign of life for as far as I can see Everybodys just charred meat up in the car seat Eat shit and die to the secret spy Cuz I have a funny feeling that Im being watched 24-hour surveillance Money or power are ailments But I send the medical supplies and the shipping and the handling is way too much Cuz Im from the Afterlife

Im just here to hold your hand when you die Its like I put a cough drop right upon your soft spot Make Martian clothes out of your garden hose Turn into a deadly gas blown through the air duct Shes not in love but I thought that she was She doesnt love me because I dont have the right haircut I misunderstood I should fix under the hood But I will not apologize for anything that Ive said My name is Mr. Busdriver, this is the producer Paris We are not embarrassed to admit that we will perish in a pit of our own imaginary place"

Wow, can't believe I'm the first to comment... This song is awesome, I found it on the THUG games (of course) but I have it on my iPod now and everything. Man, Busdriver is pretty fast! lol

Also, which classic song is he sampling.... I can't remember which one it is, but I heard it before

Suite for Orchestra No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067 7. Badinerie by Johann Sebastian Bach

These lyrics aren't right at all. The real ones are in a blog at myspace.com/busdriver.

Busdriver is ace duz he hav enymor songs i heard this from tony hawks underground 2

sick song.

crazy song. anyone know what he's talking about?

This song is about his dad dying his dad shot down his dreams of making it as a rapper all his life and so when he finally made it he lost all connection with his dad(who happens to be a super christian)

the line when he says "kids if you really want to piss off your parents,show interest in the arts" should be self explanatory at this point

and also "im just here to hold your hand when you die and show you around imaginary places" is about his mother and his guilt forcing him to spend the last few days with his father,which he spent arguing with him around religion

its also noted that his father tried to have him institutionalized when he was 14(when he first took the interest up in music)

when he says"but they needed a villian" in the following line is because his siblings all became teachers and things like that and he seemed to be the only one without security.

the last thing when he says "im gonna do my shoutouts now"

the reason there is none is because hes self made with no support from family

i actually made all this up btw

It's possible that mister Busdriver here is talking about God and Heaven, though in a negative way.

From what I can tell, the "imaginary places" that people are "buying real estate" in is Heaven. And I think that maybe he actually says "H-I-M know how I hate Him so", "Him" being God; if this is true, then it would make sense of the next line: "but He charged me for a halo". Again, the "He" is God, and God is being accused of asking too much of Busdriver for admittance into Heaven. Notice that Busdriver mentions on numerous occasions that he feels he is under constant surveillance: God or "evil Christians" are "spying" on him, ready to "judge". And when he talks about "informative pamphlets" and people that are "just here to hold your hand when you die" it could be that he is referring to Christians who attempt to convert those in their death beds.

This is simply what I interpreted from the song. To make things clear: I think Busdriver is an amazing talent, however, I do love God more than all and if this skilled rapper is in fact mocking my Savior then I am sorely disappointed.