A Brief Tutorial In Bachanalia

Here's the correct lyrics

"Hey man, heard you're a real clean shot!" (When I've got a couple drinks in me, and I've got a couple drinks in me!) "Hey man, heard you get the job done!" (When I've got a couple drinks in me, I'm known to practice apathy!)

When you see me stagger Know I'm being antagonized by what you can't hear And just moving with the current

Current state of self embalment Where I don't involve myself in human affairs Just leave me an address on where I live I'll make it slow and painful

I don't ask for much (They will lead us out of town, straight out of town, we can dodge the freight cars, just passerbys in the morning) A few bills, and the occasional, occasional, occasional human touch (I won't move if you won't move, and I won't move if you won't move, trade cigarettes for stories, you and I the Lords of the Rails, straight out of town and that is why we follow the pennies lay for we have stories and smokes) Drink to take the edge off

I told you that I'd bring you my head I told you I was better off dead Have you heard the kind of shit that I've said? Cause I'm a mad, mad man, no, I'm not a mad man. I told you if you slipped me a drink... I told you not to speak when I'm thinking I told you I was having a hard time sleeping I'm a sad, sad man, yeah I'm a real sad man!

There's empty bar stools (To each of my sides) And empty glasses (So who the fuck's talking?) And who's covering the tab? Just a lonely man with a deathwish (And a head full of crossed wires) Making a deal with himself (He keeps talking) He keeps nodding

A SICK SON OF A BITCH WILL ALWAYS END LIKE THIS

i think in the line "and just moving with the (current) current state of self ?emshment? " the last word is embellishment

Maybe you're right. Had a problem seeing it.

it's "self embalmment." as in preserving one's own dead body.

there are a few errors in there, but that's expected with the way the lyrics are written out.

"I don't ask for much/ (they will lead us out of town, straight out of town/ we can dodge the freight cars, just passerbys in the morning)/ a few bills and the occasional, occasional, occasional human touch/ (but I won't move if you won't move, and I won't move if you won't move/ trading cigarettes for stories/ you and i the lords of the rails/ straight out of town and that is why we follow/ let the pennies lay for we have stories and smokes)/ and a drink to take the edge off."

one more thing: "vulgar slang 1 have sexual intercourse with" isn't actually sung in the song. I think it's some sort of joke to give the definition of the word "fuck."

haha the previous song on this CD "Lycanthropy" is about turning into a were-wolf.....haha it seems like this song is about a Were-Wolf Going out for some drinks and he needs somone to give him directions to his house for the morning time when he wakes up :P.....i know this probably isnt right.....but its a funny idea.

fear before spelled it incorrectly (bacchanalia would be the correct way). but bacchanalia were originally festivals thrown by the roman god of wine, bacchus--basically parties to get drunk. nowadays, bacchanlia refers to any sort of drunken revelry.

haha yeah i knew that. but drunk were-wolves are funnier :D!

I think this song is about a hitman typish person. No emotion, hence the apathy part. They are also crazy (empty bar stools to each of my sides,and empty glasses, so who the fuck? part) It seems like the person just moves from place to place. That's what I got.

I think it's about one of those old men that has "a head full of crossed wires" and people will give him drinks and get him started because he's a sight to see when he gets pushed over the edge.