Hey Rabbit

Great song. I think the line is "No one these days, says thank you..."

your right. I love this song, just like most of his songs. but i have very little idea wat they're about

I think this is a song about eco awareness and the way the world,in all its capitalistic glory is destroying nature.also its about the changing of times but not in a good way.the last line backs up the whole capitalistic idea because you know "i made you rich,and you made me poor" i think this is in a bigger sense of the word poor as in destroying the simple things in nature that are dear to us.iv seen him twice live he's brilliant an absolute poet and breath of fresh air with todays music scene.

I think this song is about addiction. "Your fingers are in the coin disposal" is about scrounging for money. "Your mouth is around an aerosol can" seems to be overtly about drug abuse. I interpret "The girl who collects shells has gone back to the coast" as a junkie relapsing. Being really high "Hearing voices in car parts"

I also think the line is: "No one these days, says thank you..." How do we change them?

my favourite song from this album even though all of them are brilliant in their own way. And I too think its about addiction, being high with "ideas like sparrows" and hearing voices in car parks... Or about the world today referring to the last bit with no one these days says thank you when you open doors for them anymore.

Here's my (probably misguided) attempt to figure out the song. -You've had it -Your fingers are in the coin disposal The song is about a drug addict who was sent to rehab, and they can't stand to be there, so they scrounge up some coins to call the narrator, with the intent that the narrator will break them out. -You're tunnelling out -You would not listen to their proposal The narrator tried to covince the addict to stay, but the addict is set on escape. -The springs in the mattress will never reveal how I entered -In the hospital ward cross a billboard This is a little imagery on how they break out of the rehab ward (maybe?) -chorus pretty much what others have posted, the drug addict returning to their addiction. -Hey badger, you're punched out -Your mouth is around an aerosol can -Well they want you to sink but you stood up and swam at this point the addict suffers an overdose and dies. -Ideas, sparrows Here the narrator debates the addicts intentions, thinking that they broke out the addict so they could be together, but realizing the idea was lost as soon as the addict was able to find drugs again. -No one these days says thank you -When you open doors for them anymore -Well I made you rich and you made me poor This refers to the favor the narrator did for the addict (opening a door to the addict's freedom), and how they used it to get what they wanted (making them rich) and in the process end up dying and taking away the narrator's loved one (stricken with great loss, so therefore poor) and ruining their idea of being together (so, thankless basically). Sorry for the rant.

On some repeat listening I'm starting to see something about a divorce, mainly in the "proposal" and "diamond" lines.

I do not really appeal to the drug high, I think the song heads in more a direction of describing relations among human loss and natural, animalistic habit. You can obviously feel Regan's connection with nature in this song. I believe he is relating the loss of a loved one to the cyclistic nature of animals in the habitat.

God sometimes it's so irritating when everyone tries to turn a song into a drug song. Maybe this is just my sentiment because my friend recently commit suicide, but this song very much screams scenarios of different people who have had the last straw. The rabbit has had enough of things being taken from him, he's not letting the coin disposal get the last of his coins. The worm has been approached by someone who wants to change something, perhaps some concerned loved ones. Perhaps business partners. The worm doesn't want change, the worm shuts them out. He doesn't want the last bit of his comfort to be taken away. The badger is heavily sedating himself or committing suicide. Everyone around him thought ill of him and tried to make him sink, he tried until it broke him. The girl who collects shells returns to her beloved pass-time. The one thing that brings her comfort--hearing the treasure trove of people conversing in a park as she collects her beloved shells. That is her diamond. The sparrows represent the anxiety that accompanies the stress in these lives. How hard it is to express thoughts, ideas, feelings when feeling this way. Ideas ricocheting everywhere before finally coming out the right way. The person creeping across the mattress is the depression, the anxiety, the disease or what have you that infests these lives. When did everything suddenly feel less alive? It's the point when you ask yourself: How did I end up here? The last verse speaks of polite disengagement. We are all constantly in situations where we are inches apart from other people, yet we choose not to look or speak to them. Emotionally, we are all miles apart even if we are forced to interact in daily routine.