Evicted

I think this is the Dear Hunter trying to justify how his newest love "ms. Leading" might be a whore, how it may be acceptable. He parallels this to the mindset his mother was in. She just needed money, she was not a bad person. at the end, he's going back and forth in his mind trying to come to a verdict.

I have been evicted From a soul constricted By the flameless fire Can we all just go cold?

If you need a little cash, You sell yourself to everything A dollar in exchange for failing hearts So loudly say, "Oh, how I truly know that frame of mind Sleeping softly curbside Comfortably abroad, on a stolen ticket None of this will last All of this pass With bedsheets of broken glass I know your hearts will skip a beat in empathy"

If you need a little cash, You sell yourself to everything A dollar in exchange for failing hearts So loudly say, "Oh, how I truly know that frame of mind Sleeping softly curbside Comfortably abroad, on a stolen ticket None of this will last All of this pass With bedsheets of broken glass I know your hearts will skip a beat in empathy"

It's just that easy pick yourself up and go give the world a great big... Smile!

(Hey hey hey kid get a job) (Hey hey hey hey hey kid get a job) Wash your mouth out, ditch those morals, sleep your way (?) (Hey hey hey kid get a job) (Hey hey hey hey hey kid get a job)

^ That sounds about right.

It still blows my mind how creative this band is.

I think it's about how he has no where to go, and that he's used to it. I blew all his money at the dime on ms leading and has nowhere to sleep but curbside on broken glass. He got there on a stolen ticket. He's been broke his whole life, and is used to it.

i think mrme1213 has it right, though i dont think that ther hunter knows his mother was a prostitute yet.

"I have been evicted From a soul constricted By the flameless fire Can we all just go cold?"

im thinking this begining bit is him feeling freed from his previous life a little, having now found 'love' in miss leading he has a new angle on life. the flameless fire is miss leading, the idea of a flame and a fire have been used to represent the dear hunter (the fire) and his father (the flame) in battesimo del fuoco. this could be the dear hunter seeing a familiar story in miss leading, her being the fire and maby she is flameless because she has sunk to such low acts being a prostitute or because she has no paternal figure or something.

So evicted: It means 2 things. One he’s being taken away from ms. Leading by that dbag. But I think it is returning to the larger theme of prostituting yourself to survive and it is literally talking about being evicted “sleeping softly curbside”. Lolz on the curbside being soft. So he is joining the masses as they sing their pain. This brings us back to the smiling swine And then to the oracles on the Delphi. So now, it’s about faking it and emptying yourself. Aka get a job.