Cheers Pricks

Much thanks for putting up the (correct) lyrics.

This is the most amazing song. The atonal versus the reverb /x/ riffs is awesome. Calm versus turbulant. Such a great song.

"If I was drunk right now I'd tell you how we could make this whole process a hell of a lot easier"

If I was drunk right now I would have the courage to blindly make a move on you and go with the whole situation.

"I can't keep my eye from twitching I can't make sense of this If it's ringing in my head or in my ears I cannot tell the difference"

First time fucking will stress you out.

"I'm wishing I was a bit more educated You're wishing for a belt of human hair and teeth (mine)"

I wish I knew more about this sex shit... While you want me to go down on you [human hair - hers, human teeth, mine]

"You want to know what it takes to make this young man weep You've researched how to break my bones and skin me alive You want to put me in a traveling show"

You know how much it's killing me, the trauma of it all. I'm so frustrated, I'm so confused, I'm in hell to feel ashamed and embarrassed this way. And more, you want to put me in your cabinet of trophy fucks.

"Five bodies Zero sleep You've sent me out on a limb to hang myself high above these dirty streets"

Everyone else knows what's going on but myself, and I geel like shit because of it.

"It's getting louder I think it knows my name I awoke in the middle of the night to find it standing in my doorway"

Now the memories of this event are going to haunt me in my sleep, my sexual frustration and social embarrassment is alot to handle.

"Is it over yet? Is this all there is? Am I speaking only in vowels here?"

I'm so shocked that it's over so fast, did I do a good job?

"Am I a mime? A swollen tongue Am I here? I am"

There is nothing I can physically bring myself to do about this situation and I know it.

"Can anybody here me out there? Put me down like a horse with a broken leg An old dog foaming at the mouth Tie a chain around my ankle and take me out to the blackest deepest sea Carry me out to the town square Put me on the guillotine"

I have just committed social suicide.

milo.....your a moron i feel bad they had fans like this.. you have zero idea what this song is about ...zero ..i dont blame em for breaking up if i wrote a song like this and someone thought what you just thought id either quit the band or off myself for sure

surely it's about The Divine Comedy?

Okay so I've got a problem with the third line below:

Five bodies Zero sleep You've sent me out on a limb to hang myself high above these dirty streets

I DO NOT hear him say "you've sent me out on a limb"

I don't even begin to hear that in the album version. Like, what???? What he says doesn't even sound close to that... I hear at least 10 syllables before "hang myself high above these dirty streets." And I almost definitely hear the word "Fuckin" somewhere when he supposedly says "you've sent me out on a limb"

Can anyone clarify this? It's been killing me for years, and I somehow remembered this old-ass login for this site haha

Like literally, syllable for syllable this is the nonsense I'm hearing:

Five bodies and zero sleep... Well I borch(?) better her clow(?) fucking ready. Hang myself high above these dirty streets.

it’s fun to see all the old interpretations of these insannneee lyrics. glad other people read into them as much as i did

i used to think the /purgatory/ limbo /the end/ stuff was just stuff lex threw in to look edgy and smart. i actually think the explanation below gives a fairly good explanation for how to view these.

overall i don’t think any specific lines will give you exactly a speicifc cohesive translation that will give a definitve meaning to all the strange phrases and narratives used in this song.

but they do mean something

this song is just the end of hell songs. the past 8 songs introduced us to the “hell” lex depicts, his own life. hyperventilationsystem, providence by gaslight, and fiesty snake woman showed us how unfulfilling and destructive his sexual partners are to him. DSW, X-Ray and Crotch Buffet are all rhetorical, very poetic views of a sleazes (lex) view of his relationship. he’s rhetorically outlining why he deserves to be in this hell.

so these songs describe the hell Lex considers himself to live in, (hell.. songs..!). So what about Cheers Pricks?

Cheers Pricks is the story of Lex’ descent into the hell world created by the previous 8 songs, and a depiction of his own realization of the situation he finds himself in.

I’m gonna break the songs into sections, you all know what they are jsut by listening to it

Section 1: He’s discovering getitng drunk and getting laid. he’s tweaking constnstly, i think a lot of the weird phrases used in this section are referring to amphetamine abuse.

“that boys gonna cry fuckin murder, hanging himself from above these dirty streets”

3rd person viewer commenting on the fact that they’re already aware that lex is too far gone at this point, and this will end up killing him(or leave him wishing he could just die, section 4)

Section 2: he starts to realize he’s stuck in this new way of life and even when he tries to hide or escape from it, it still comes back for him.

section 3: he fully embraces he can’t escape it, and is just succumbing to his fate(note the apathetic and exhausted tone he takes in this situation, lex’s cadence is often very important understanding what he’s trying to evoke)

the guitar passage here signifies in my eyes, the long passage of time

Section 4: he’s been burning in his own hell for a long time and just wants out. this is what he wrote the album about,

“can anyone hear me out there? put me down like a horse with a broken leg” (refer to the album art even!) this is what lex wants to say with hell songs. he can not escape the hell he’s found himself in, and he’s begging for a mercy killing. this section is aptly titled “hell”, as it describes the point that he realizes he exists in the world of the previous 8 songs.

All this said. Why is cheers pricks not the last song on the album? It is literallt called “cheers pricks” and ends with “the end”

well, after depicting his persoanl hell, and begging to be saved from it through a mercy killing, the hedonist side of him that dragged him into hell in the first place gets the final say:

“it’s already too late”

“The fuck whisperer” i think, is what lex calls his “alter ego”, or the hedonistic side of him that dragged him into hell.

I also think the song “the ghost with the most” is about the same thing. that song starts with the chaotic noise of the rest of the album, then transition to this incredibly unsettling, sleazy rant about strange sex acts. thusly, canada songs may follow the same narrative, where the first portion is lex artistic creation, but “the fuck whisperer” is the one in control, and always gets the last say.