Ahead

this song is about getting a blowjob

...Or not, I see it as a big "fuck you" to corruption in full circle.

I think that it's about feeling cheated and lied to, be it by a greater system that feels rigged or in a relationship that feels false. In the end, even the person deceiving you has been duped, thinking that they've gained something from pulling the wool over your eyes when they're just as screwed as you, and what you're both given is only enough to move "forward" and "up"... That is, nowhere of any meaning.

Pretty bleak, but beautiful.

Anyone ever heard a live version of this song? Very intense and far less dour than the original, in particular the rushing hi-hat-driven backbeat and psychotic, giddy vocal harmonies. Overall, not to far from Newman's early solo work, minus the heavy-as-hell Thorne production (which I love for quite different reasons).

Suprised no one's noted the meaning of this song which I thought was reasonably well known/clear. Its about vivsection. The growing lips and peeled eyes are of animal experiments, as are the "full board in new quarters" (presumably a cage in a lab).

"TV doesn't understand a word that matters" I think refers to the word vivisection in this case. Its a bit hard to google "wire ahead" to get a refernce, but I know I read it somewhere.

To me it's obvious this song is about oral sex. The title is word play: ahead = a head. "it's enough for ahead/a head"

It's about giving head to someone, not receiving it. I think it's most likely about cunnilingus, especially if the "lips" in the first line refers to the labia. Otherwise it could also be anilingus.

So "lips growing for service" could either be the receiver's labia swelling, getting ready to be served, or it could be about the lips of the giver who is getting ready to serve.

If this is the true meaning, "kneeling for pleasure" is pretty obvious. The giver is kneeling before the recipient of the "service".

"Making the body search" would be a reference to a "cavity search", wherein a police officer, prison guard etc is searching the body cavities of someone to see if they've smuggled something inside it. The "monkey caught stealing" in the song could be about the person being searched (for stolen goods) or the singer being caught and "punished" by having to do sexual service to the other person.

"scattering desires" is more evidence this is about something sexual. "smothering fires" could be metaphorically about someone who is so turned on they're "on fire" and the singer is using their mouth and tongue to "smother" the fire. Or it could be that the fires (desires) themselves are smothering, like they're too overwhelming.

I don't understand the thing about the "TV" though or what the "word that matters" could be about.