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Jellylegs

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She leaves me with jellylegs
Where did all my good luck get to?
We're curled up like sleeping kittens on the floor
Stowed aboard your big green boat

She took aim with a turned back
Blew holes in me with cold silence
Then a science project volcano erupts inside me
Filling me with flat champagne

Stretched out like a rubber band
From one planet to the next
You were dancing with your grandfather that lonely night
I guess ill meet you in the afterlife

She leaves with jellylegs
Where did all my good luck get to
Like a lonely kitten, sinking, drowning in the harbor
I walked the plank your big green boat

Stretched out like a rubber band
From one planet to the next
You were dancing with your grandfather that lonely night
I guess I`ll meet you in the afterlife

I guess I`ll meet you in the afterlife

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robnuts On Jul 14, 2010

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by peacelovextc

15y ago

first comment on an epic song! A hard one to nut out but I'd say it's about someone dying, or perhaps himself dying... maybe being killed by someone; "blew holes in me with cold silence"???

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by nirvanarama

15y ago

I think it's about liking a girl, but she is unresponsive to the boy's advances. 'blew holes in me with cold silence' It makes him nervous giving him jelly legs that stretch out like a rubber band.

Also the girl is in a sexual relationship with her grandfather. ...well I'm unsure about that part.

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by markpcronin

15y ago

a couple of the lyrics are wrong. nothing to write home about though in the booklet its "pea green boat" not "big green boat" and its "You went hunting with your grandfather that lonely night"

i think this song is about a guy who likes a girl but is too nervous to talk to her "She leaves me with jellylegs" and she doesn't notice him at all "She took aim with a turned back" and it hurts him "Blew holes in me with cold silence" "Then a science project volcano erupts inside me Filling me with flat champagne" and I'm not sure but i think she was accidentally shot by her grandfather in the end "You went hunting with your grandfather that lonely night"

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by brothersmixtape

15y ago

from getmusic.com.au

"Front man, Johnny Mackay describes the track as ‘a post-traumatic heartbreak song about my ex-girlfriend dying in a bizarre hunting accident with her Grandfather.’"

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by Azazel23 15y ago

Wow thats paraphasing...

A better explaination: I saw a pretty weird interview with you about how the song premise came to you in a dream about your ex-girlfriend?

About her dying in a bizarre hunting accident with her grandfather? Yeah.

You must have some weird Freudian wishes for her.

Apparently! (Laughs). Or you could just take it as her being ‘dead’ to me. But that whole song really is about that shit feeling that you have when you break up with someone you love, or when you have your heart broken. And we crushed each other. And then there are...

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