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sink traps without a catch
the last grocery bags
stacked up in a pile
a laundry sack;
scratched up for the automat
the cats figure that you'll
be gone for a while
we could not block the arrows
that poisoned your heart
betrayed from the beginning,
now too spoiled to trust
we'd work on an ending,
but where would we start?
i won't pass my judgements
for judges to judge just
hashing out contingents
with your ghost
the meaning-well, misguided talking
shit committee gathers
when their tragedy ignites a fire:
dormant, weeping, battered
and the pattern is embarrassing
it only makes me sadder
now i finally realize it
and i wish it didn't matter at all
don't push, don't pull
act, enabler
guilt pays off in full
pay your maker
i'll be opposed to every argument,
be ill with every lie
i'm not looking to be a hero
i'm not looking for a fight
i'm working out contingents with your ghost
sorting through specifics with your ghost
explaining my position to your ghost
i'm seeing double vision with our ghosts
the last grocery bags
stacked up in a pile
a laundry sack;
scratched up for the automat
the cats figure that you'll
be gone for a while
that poisoned your heart
betrayed from the beginning,
now too spoiled to trust
we'd work on an ending,
but where would we start?
i won't pass my judgements
for judges to judge just
hashing out contingents
with your ghost
shit committee gathers
when their tragedy ignites a fire:
dormant, weeping, battered
and the pattern is embarrassing
it only makes me sadder
now i finally realize it
and i wish it didn't matter at all
act, enabler
guilt pays off in full
pay your maker
i'll be opposed to every argument,
be ill with every lie
i'm not looking to be a hero
i'm not looking for a fight
sorting through specifics with your ghost
explaining my position to your ghost
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I think it's about someone close who passed away, from an overdose on drugs (the arrows that poisoned your heart). The whole "I wont pass my judgements" part is probably related to the drugs as well.
The "shit talking committee" is probably everyone who doesn't know the full story or doesn't know the deceased as well as they think they do. This also strikes up images of the funeral in my head.
"I'll be opposed to every argument, Be ill to every lie, I'm not looking to be a hero, I'm not looking for a fight" means that he's not going to try to defend the deceased's drug habit against outside criticism or ignorance, not because he doesn't care, but because it's useless and won't change anything. And that's why he's "explaining [his] position to your ghost".
everything seems to fit, but i'm not sure about the drugs... i always saw the "arrows that poisoned your heart" as pointing fingers, saying negative things, or poisoning his purity/heart
everything seems to fit, but i'm not sure about the drugs... i always saw the "arrows that poisoned your heart" as pointing fingers, saying negative things, or poisoning his purity/heart
I think you've got the right idea MZA, but I'm with Andiamo, what if "the arrows that poisoned your heart" are all things that lead someone to commit suicide? Perhaps it is about someone who OD'd. It'd make sense why he refuses to pass judgement.
I think you've got the right idea MZA, but I'm with Andiamo, what if "the arrows that poisoned your heart" are all things that lead someone to commit suicide? Perhaps it is about someone who OD'd. It'd make sense why he refuses to pass judgement.
But the second half of the lyrics (starting "the meaning-well, misguided talking shit committee gathers") talk about a different person, one who is metaphorically dead. The lines "Guilt pays off in full | Pay your maker" sound like the narrator is talking to a Christian adhering to the idea that they are guilty...
But the second half of the lyrics (starting "the meaning-well, misguided talking shit committee gathers") talk about a different person, one who is metaphorically dead. The lines "Guilt pays off in full | Pay your maker" sound like the narrator is talking to a Christian adhering to the idea that they are guilty of sin and must repent by giving up their life to God. The next few lines are the writer's self-explanatory answer: "I'll be opposed to every argument, be ill with every lie | I'm not looking to be a hero, I'm not looking for a fight."
To cut to the point, the song is comparing two forms of suicide: the physical kind described in the first verse, and the mental suicide described in the second.