Irish Goodbye

This is so hard to understand, but it's terribly catchy.

I'm pretty sure it's sequence, not sequins.

Third full sip (?) Off the straight line tip Just one other hour more Another promise made Thrown out the door

Can anyone understand the words to the freestyle? It's pretty rad.

hahaha this song rules. i don't really get it though. anyone up for analyzing it?

the freestyle by Rig (is this Clark Baechle, or what?) is hard to understand for sure, but I have my aural interpretation:

proto-topical combo won't be remembered tomorrow on a rival, recited Eifels/eye-fulls(?) insightful trifle, eyes closed exposed to idle chatter when night falls goodnight, ya'll

hard not to ignore, already out the door with an irish goodbye now unintended to listen to attempts to mask glass intentions indicitave with the sunset's conviction at will on the decline uphill, headspill off a mental treadmill shatter the sequins from a standstill keep it real

This is my favorite song on the new album. I think it's a description of a night life scene, like at a night club. (This is going to be really long btw, lol.)

"Nonstop talk It’s eleven o’clock There’s a line coming out the door I’m not feeling it But I swore I’d go"

This reminds me of a long line of people waiting to get into a club, and how this normally isn't her type of scene, but she promised she would go.

"Thrift shop Rock a little light on a cock All the kids screaming out for more I’m not getting it I’d swear I’ve been here before"

These are the most confusing lines to me. I debate about whether she means these things in a literal way, and is referring to sexual behavior, or if it's some kind of metaphor. I don't understand the first two lines, but the ones to follow sound like the way younger adults act, how they typically go to clubs to pick up people and have sex with them. The line "I'm not getting it" could either refer to her lack of understanding of the situation, or a literal way of saying she isn't getting laid, lol. I don't think that's the case though, it's just a possibility. shrugs

"How can you rap For all that sunset? The sequence still isn’t done And I’d like to know You get me"

The lines that have to do with rap I see as a commentary on the genre of music. The line "how can you rap for all that sunset?" seems like a way of saying "how can you rap for all that hardship?" which can refer to the way rappers take a life of crime and little opportunity and glamorize it with their music. I don’t understand the lines that follow.

“Third full sip (?) Off the straight line tip Just one now, but I want more Another, promise me Thrown out the door”

These lines describe her desire for alcohol, and how she keeps drinking, and eventually she is thrown out of the club. “Through a bloodshot haze Watch the day get paid Find a friend, ask him take me home And could you stay awhile? Now I can’t be alone”

She is having trouble seeing; a side effect of being drunk. She finds a friend to drive her home, and she doesn’t want to be by herself, so she asks him/her for some company.

And that's all I've got so far.

Oh, and I forgot to mention in my previous post that my theory for the rap related lines is that she heard rap music while at the club, and that is what she was thinking while listening to the music and watching other people.

The rapper in the song is Ian McElroy, Conor's cousin, AKA Rig.

According to this interview, the lyric is actually "rep" and not "rap":

http://laist.com/2008/11/20/maria_taylor.php

Interesting!