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The Man with the Plastic Suns Lyrics
My daddy played in a vegas band, he made an alright decent living playing big band standards for business men and their paid asian escorts.
Till he started up gambling and in one hand lost 50 grand, bet it all on four kings but somebody had aces.
They called him the man with the plastic suns rumored to kill cops just for fun, or made a fortune scamming old ladies in nursing homes.
Oh the man with the plastic suns, invents diseases just for fun, oh he blackmailes rainbows to turn into nooses.
So I dropped out of high school and got a job selling phones at the mall.
But I could make twice as much money taking my shirt off at the cocktail bar.
My daddy pawned all his guitars but he was still 30000 short, then one day three rancid ruthless men broke down the door.
First they butchered his whole right hand, oh he never played trumpet again, pay up by Friday or we're coming back for your cock and your kneecaps.
He----y give us our money or we'll break your fucking legs---lets race to the desert
He=y I could use a stiff drink, or just some time to think—lets race the badlands lets race the ocean.
My daddy stopped leaving the house, and he drank and he drank and he drank, stayed up all night talking to pictures of my dead mother,
Then I found him in the basement smashing tv's on the cement filling swimming pools gasoline and drawings of angels.
Oh mr plastic suns wont you have some mercy on me
Oh mr plastic suns wont you let my poor daddy be.
Hey give us our money or we'll break your fucking legs lets race the desert
Hey I could use a stiff drink or just some time to think lets race the badlands
Hey you walk into a postcard of somewhere in London
Hey theres a loft party down the street music dripping down from the trees bass blazing tranquilizing beats voices of people you'd like to meet
So I took a pistol and put on a low cut shirt,
Found the man with the plastic suns at the crap table and started to flirt.
Hey a man was shot today took six bullets to the face
Hey the rumour on the street is that the suspect is sixteen
Hey the man with the plastic sun was pronounced dead on arrival
Hey and an ex musician hung himself in a suburban attic yeah the desert is laughing the desert is mourning
Till he started up gambling and in one hand lost 50 grand, bet it all on four kings but somebody had aces.
They called him the man with the plastic suns rumored to kill cops just for fun, or made a fortune scamming old ladies in nursing homes.
Oh the man with the plastic suns, invents diseases just for fun, oh he blackmailes rainbows to turn into nooses.
So I dropped out of high school and got a job selling phones at the mall.
But I could make twice as much money taking my shirt off at the cocktail bar.
My daddy pawned all his guitars but he was still 30000 short, then one day three rancid ruthless men broke down the door.
First they butchered his whole right hand, oh he never played trumpet again, pay up by Friday or we're coming back for your cock and your kneecaps.
He----y give us our money or we'll break your fucking legs---lets race to the desert
He=y I could use a stiff drink, or just some time to think—lets race the badlands lets race the ocean.
Then I found him in the basement smashing tv's on the cement filling swimming pools gasoline and drawings of angels.
Oh mr plastic suns wont you have some mercy on me
Oh mr plastic suns wont you let my poor daddy be.
Hey I could use a stiff drink or just some time to think lets race the badlands
Hey you walk into a postcard of somewhere in London
Hey theres a loft party down the street music dripping down from the trees bass blazing tranquilizing beats voices of people you'd like to meet
Found the man with the plastic suns at the crap table and started to flirt.
Hey the rumour on the street is that the suspect is sixteen
Hey the man with the plastic sun was pronounced dead on arrival
Hey and an ex musician hung himself in a suburban attic yeah the desert is laughing the desert is mourning
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Sorry, theTyrant,
I guess I didn't really explain that part every well. The inclusion of the number six for the bullet count is obviously a reference to a six-shooter due to the idea that the main character would unload the selected gun on her prey. However, the revolver is a gun with little modern relevance and would be far harder to acquire than your standard pistol. So, as a result, we can assume that the insert of the number does have relevance.
Also, thank you for the request, and I believe I honored it in full. I chose the song "Toxic", as it was one of Britney's bigger hits from her recent work: http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858489277/5/ASC/#comment
Just scroll down to the bottom for my comment. I hope that you enjoy it.
I made an account just to complement you Baron Nocturnus. Not only to thank you for your thoughtful and thorough analysis of this song, but to congratulate you on how well you managed to completely pwn theTyrant while still keeping face and a sense of dignity.
I made an account just to complement you Baron Nocturnus. Not only to thank you for your thoughtful and thorough analysis of this song, but to congratulate you on how well you managed to completely pwn theTyrant while still keeping face and a sense of dignity.
And she shoots him 6 times in the face cause she really, REALLY want's him dead. It's just aggression, not the number 666 with some satanic beast number!!
This is suck a good song, tells a pretty detailed mafioso story.
I dig it.
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Yeah, Jaguar love are so fucking good. Pretty much anything Johnny (and Cody) touches turns to gold. one minor correction, instead of: 'So I took a pistol and put on a low cut shirt,' It is definetly 'So I (or possibly 'you') took a gun from the cabinet and put on a low cut shirt'.
Yeah, I just copy and pasted this off the lyric blog on their MySpace page. I'm sure it'll be changed when the album is released
I miss TBB, but this makes up for them.
I miss TBB, but this makes up for them.
after the story, the only thing left to our imagination in this song are the "let's race the desert/badlands" lines throughout and the "the desert is laughing/mourning" line at the end.
I think the desert, clearly where the Sun is the most prominent, represents TMWTPS's hideout/background conspirator of sorts.
let's race the desert/badlands=escape the silly mob boss is laughing=at the musician's suicide is mourning=over the death of TMWTPS.
I think "So I dropped out of high school and got a job selling phones at the mall." Is a really nice line. From other songs we can gather that cell phones are a negative image and that, coupled with dropping out of school, quite nicely kicks off the deterioration of this person's character because of TMWTPS.