Snake Lyrics
To be honest I thought it was about wanking the first time I heard it too, but the draught excluder sounds a bit less creepy. A bit...
"How very wrong could you be. This is a beautiful song to listen to, and despite the possibly intentional trickery of the song, it is actually about a snake shaped draught excluder from ikea."
I did read that here: "Everyone thinks it’s about my penis, but it’s not,” he remarked after playing “Snake,” which he elaborated is actually about his plans to surprise a woman in New York City by showing up with nothing but the clothes on his back and a draft snake he’d been keeping for her. As it happened, the girl was “less than thrilled,” so he wrote “I Feel Better” as a sequel, reusing the music from the chorus." (http://www.t-sides.com/?p=543)
But there seems to be a contradiction here: "Well, basically, there's, the last song on, you know "Snake"? It's me going to New York. "I Feel Better" is me coming back from New York, having failed in my attempts. I took "Snake", I took the snake to New York. The snake, it's a snake, so I took him out to New York to visit my girlfriend, to see if we could sort things out. And then it didn't work, so I flew back. So "I Feel Better" is the sequel to "Snake." (http://www.30music.com/int.php?int=100)
I prefer to think it's his pet snake.
I love this song, and I love the accompanying story, and yes, it's big GAY eyes, because the snake was multicoloured, so someone should change that!
I thought it was 'Awake with Snake' rather than I'll wake with snake. Also I thought it was a big innuendo but i wasn;t sure because of the zoo thingy xD and some of the other lyrics. Now I think its just a really sweet song, which it was anyway.
I'm just back from a gig where scott sung this song and he confirmed that it is about his ex girlfriend who moved away to new york over 6 years ago, and the snake in the song is a multicoloured draft excluder snake that he and his girlfriend said was gay due to its colour and how he tries to win back the girlfriend who is living in new york by using the snake and how it eventually didnt work out.
Snake is indeed a snake shaped draught excluder. At their greys anniversary concert last month they raffled off snake although it turned it wasn't they original (sadly lost) but one Scott's mum had made for the occasion. Snake was rainbow coloured so they decided he was a gay snake. Wheels was the name they gave to their car. "We were very literal people" he said
So either this song IS just a sweet story about him missing his girl, or it's about him thinking about his girl every time he jerks off whenever she's not around.
I went to see frightened rabbit in dublin and they explained this song. Scott went to new york to visit his girlfriend (who midnight organ fight was entirely wrote about) and he picked up the wrong bag and all he brought with him was a draught excluder snake from ikea. he got there and she broke up with him and he had to spend the day feeling sad walking around new york. true story
I went to see frightened rabbit in dublin and they explained this song. Scott went to new york to visit his girlfriend (who midnight organ fight was entirely wrote about) and he picked up the wrong bag and all he brought with him was a draught excluder snake from ikea. he got there and she broke up with him and he had to spend the day feeling sad walking around new york. true story
Gungalei: I thought it was just a very cute song until I read your comment. It fits way too well. I'm kind of disturbed now (not so much by the nature of the song as that I've been listening to it in blissful ignorance).
How very wrong could you be. This is a beautiful song to listen to, and despite the possibly intentional trickery of the song, it is actually about a snake shaped draught excluder from ikea. His girlfriend went away on holiday or something, and he kept this 'snake' as company while he was waiting for her.
I saw FR in Edinburgh last month and they actually played Snake. It was so amazing! After hearing him sing it though I think the chorus goes like this:
I’ll wake with snake he's soft inside but not as soft as you I love that Snake but I love you more, he’s no substitute I’ll wake, I’ll wake with you soon
:)