Fish in a Womb

So what? Is it like a birth defect or is he some kind of fish?

basically, their new album is just full of drugs

it's not really a birth defect. in the womb every human fetus has gills... they are gone by the time we are born, however. but there are rare cases where you can see the remnants of gills on some humans necks. im not sure how common it is, but i take this is a reference to it.

I love the line "Every day is like the first but with a harder head."

so true. You wake up and go through the same notions but you learn and have tougher skin the next day...

"This slice in my neck, it's been there since before I was born"

sounds like a post-surgery remark àla:

http://www.ghorayeb.com/BranchialCleft.html

"every day is like the first"

'the first' meaning birth.

"but with a harder head"

new borns have soft spots in their skull,

Seems like a comparison of birth and waking up from sleep.

So what does it mean when he says "That slice in my neck, it's oozing jelly clear as glass." Basically he's bleeding through it right? Like he got cut?

Chainsaw Arm, I may be wrong, but I think it may not be blood, considering if we were to go with the birth defect/gills idea, which I really agree with, it would most likely be water spewing out from the slice in his neck.

This is a tremendously brilliant song. Although the lyrics seem pretty simple, they're riddled with bigger meanings/imagery. I love the image of the mother being filled with popcorn (aka cotton balls) and covered in strawberry sauce (blood).

As everyone has said, the line "Every day is like the first, but with a harder head" is excellent - it expresses the trial and tribulations that a new born human being experiences starting from the very moment it emerges from that "tank full of fluid".

you have gills in your mother's womb, he gets his throat slit in the last epithet. i was wondering who put boones, it's pools. da fuck does the guy who discovered the Cumberland gap have anything to do with the general processes of life and death?

http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c031.html I don't much care for the talk putting down evolution, but this article talks about a kid with "gills."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory As a disclaimer, Haeckel's ideas aren't generally accepted, or at least they haven't been by all the biology professors I've encountered. I might find evolution plausible, but I don't want to start a fight about evolution. Those arguments always boil down to the uneducated fucks from both sides spamming it up, and unless you've got a PhD in this stuff AND have been studying it for years, I am not of the opinion that any of us know what we're talking about.

The first article makes me think I may have been right in assuming this song talks about cartilage, if I'm going along with the gills idea, which I am.