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I met him at a party and he
Told me how to drive him home.
He said he liked to do it backwards.
I said that's just fine with me.
That way we can fuck and watch TV.
It was four a.m. and the light was gray
Like it always is in paperbacks.
He asked if I liked playing jacks.
I told him that I was good to sixes,
But all hell broke loose after that.
I told him that I knew Julia Roberts
When I was twelve at summer camp.
We didn't say anything after that.
I dropped him off and I drove on home
'Cause secretly, I'm timid.
Told me how to drive him home.
He said he liked to do it backwards.
I said that's just fine with me.
That way we can fuck and watch TV.
Like it always is in paperbacks.
He asked if I liked playing jacks.
I told him that I was good to sixes,
But all hell broke loose after that.
When I was twelve at summer camp.
We didn't say anything after that.
I dropped him off and I drove on home
'Cause secretly, I'm timid.
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it's about not having sex. she meets a guy at a party, shares inane conversation with the intention of having sex but she ends up just driving him home. she's secretly timid, as much as she'd like to think she's brave and brazen by doing the driving and having all these thoughts of sex and leading the conversation into sexual territory, she's very shy.
I think it's about a girl who's not just timid but also naïve. She intends to do something spontaneous/ something to show that she's mature (have sex with someone she barely knows) but she doesn't know how to go about it. He talks about kinky things: doing it backwards and the thing with jacks but her mind is too innocent to know how to respond properly. She's thinking about things children would think about: TV, summer camp, etc. When she talks about her skills in the actual kid's game as opposed to in the bed, perhaps he realizes how innocent she really is because that's when "all hell broke loose".
@ClymClemClam I'm pretty sure the reference to jacks is not a reference to any kind of sex act. If "playing jacks" or doing anything with jacks is a slang expression for some kind of sex act then I could find no evidence of it on the internet. If you know otherwise then please tell us about it?
@ClymClemClam I'm pretty sure the reference to jacks is not a reference to any kind of sex act. If "playing jacks" or doing anything with jacks is a slang expression for some kind of sex act then I could find no evidence of it on the internet. If you know otherwise then please tell us about it?
also she tries to play it off like she changed her mind at the end and decided just to drop him off at his house instead of going inside. "SECRETLY I'm timid" But 1. there was no chemistry between them and 2. as I mentioned before, the guy probably realized that she didn't know what she was doing. Her timidity probably wasn't such a big secret, at least, not to him.
I think she's found a boy that she really likes at a party, as clearly stated, and agrees to have sex with him even if it's degrading (fuck & watch TV). Afterwards, she takes him and he tries to make conversation, but they're both so mismatched they can't create a dialogue. Then at the end, you realize that she did this even though she's still vulnerable and shy.
well, i think you summed it up wonderfully :). However, I did not know that Ben Folds covered this. I found that to be a pleasant surprise.
I saw Ben Folds cover this when he was part of The Bens and shouted "Liz Phair rules". He looked at me funny. :-)
I don't really get the second verse.
Is he mounting her doggy style?
I really don't get that either.
I think it's referring to the game jacks... y'know, the one little girls play by bouncing a ball and picking up the little metal things. She can get to six, but no more...
I think the game jacks (being played by children) means that she is to young for him like they have nothing in common because she is so much younger. I also think that she had a one night stand with him and she wanted it to be more than that but he didn't. Like the verse "the light was gray Like it always is in paperbacks." Paper backs being romance novels and in her mind it was like a fairy tail at first.
when she talks about playing jacks, i think i get it. or maybe i'm a sicko. oh well, here goes. no i cant say it!!!!
alright never mind i don't know if playing jacks os sexual or what. but i do know this: i completely agree with blair23.