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Hewlett's Daughter Lyrics
Hewlett's daughter
Loved her father
And I think she loved me too
For a little while
Hewlett's daughter
I forgot her
Now I'm treating water
And waste at night
High above the wrecks
On ice shelves and glaciers
I spy below the mess
And measure the pressure
Where sofas float on roads
And somebody stole your guns
Well sir I'm the only one
To get back your stolen guns
I should have been your son
High above the wrecks
On ice shelves and dressers
With crash united sewn
On all of my dress shirts
They firefell the roads
And somebody stole your guns
Well sir I'm the only one
To get back your stolen guns
I should have been your son
Loved her father
And I think she loved me too
For a little while
I forgot her
Now I'm treating water
And waste at night
On ice shelves and glaciers
I spy below the mess
And measure the pressure
Where sofas float on roads
And somebody stole your guns
Well sir I'm the only one
To get back your stolen guns
I should have been your son
High above the wrecks
On ice shelves and dressers
With crash united sewn
On all of my dress shirts
They firefell the roads
And somebody stole your guns
Well sir I'm the only one
To get back your stolen guns
I should have been your son
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This song perfectly complements "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot" by beig so light and breezy after such a heavy song. This whole album has an almost post-apocalyptic feel to it, with the remnants of the past everywhere (sofas float on roads; wrecks of dressers), and this song continues that.
i think this song his about some girlfriend he had, probably her father doesn't like him.
no. This song is about A girlfriend Jason had and he almost didn't want to break up with her, because he liked her father so much. He aspired to her father and such, "sir, I'm the only one, who'd get back your stolen guns" that's him pledging his allegiance to her father. Infact, Hewlett's father got him the job at the hazardous water treatment plant.
hazardous water treatment plant, hence: "treating water, and waste at nights" he's treating water, wasted (drunk) at night. High above the wrecks is Jason looking down on all the world like crumbling and stuff. crash united is on all his dress shirts, you know those shirts that say flight united? well, crash united.
The lyrics remind me a little of the plot of the movie L.I.E.. I got Sophtware Slump around the time I saw that movie (even though I had heard the song a couple of times before)..
I think everyone is almost there on this one - very post-apocalyptic, some global warming in there, eh? What if Hewlett were a metaphor for Silicon Valley products, i.e. I was totally after Hewlett (Packard's) daughter (computers), and those days are behind us now because nature has come after us and now your punch-clock job involves monitoring glaciers, treating water and keeping after stolen guns after the collapse of civilization. Isn't that really the whole Grandaddy ethos? Acoustic-y bonding with nature, overlaid with tech-embracing, synth future shock (but really kind of nostalgic)? Isn't that what we are all about now? Maybe back in the 00s...
I love this magical tune. Enjoyed reading the interpretations.
sofas float on road= cars about the rest is about father of a girlfriend he likes more than the girlfriend, but would be cool if ppl could explain every verse, i dont really get all the metaphors, like "get back your guns"?
I may be totally wrong, but to me, this seems like a conversation between the narrator and a man, Hewlett, where the narrator expresses regret for breaking up with the Hewlett’s daughter, as his life has become boring and completely taken up by his job. In fact, he thinks he should have married her, which would have made him Hewlett’s son(in law).