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Zoo Lion sobers up and starts to scream and shout
A little dose of home-fire got him all smoothed out
Melancholy wine-soaked tenderness
She hated it here and she couldn't care less
Prisonyard stares and Fleur-De-lis tattoos
Cannibal are saving all their bones for soup
Eating with my fingers and sucking hulls of ships
My parasite don't deserve no better than this
The Golden Rim Motor Inn
Soft water and a color TV
So consumed with the shape I'm in
Can't enjoy the luxury
She says, "Why are you partial to that Playboy con?
When you can see me naked anytime you want?"
If I had loads of money to make me tame and sour
I could pay you to remind me of my baby by the hour
Zoo Lion sobers up and starts to scream and shout
A little dose of home-fire got him all smoothed out
If this is where it all starts getting good
Then I'll be here waiting for you, like I said I would
The Golden Rim Motor Inn
Soft water and a color TV
So consumed with the shape I'm in
Can't enjoy the luxury
The luxury
A little dose of home-fire got him all smoothed out
Melancholy wine-soaked tenderness
She hated it here and she couldn't care less
Cannibal are saving all their bones for soup
Eating with my fingers and sucking hulls of ships
My parasite don't deserve no better than this
Soft water and a color TV
So consumed with the shape I'm in
Can't enjoy the luxury
When you can see me naked anytime you want?"
If I had loads of money to make me tame and sour
I could pay you to remind me of my baby by the hour
A little dose of home-fire got him all smoothed out
If this is where it all starts getting good
Then I'll be here waiting for you, like I said I would
Soft water and a color TV
So consumed with the shape I'm in
Can't enjoy the luxury
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Submitted by
black_cow_of_death On Jan 26, 2002
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This is about a convict who just got out of jail and realizes that his life will never be normal again. He gets out of the bing, goes to a hotel with all the amenities, gets a prostitute, but none of these "luxuries" can replace the life he had before he was imprisoned. He can't enjoy the luxury because he can't stop thinking about what he had.
Too Deep For Any Normal Man - here's what I know - THE GOLDEN RIM MOTOR INN is a real place in the small mountain town of Golden, British Columbia, Canada - this is probably and metophorically speaking a LONG DISTANCE LOVE SONG OF THE SUBSTANCE ABUSER living not in the moment, but rather in the past - then again - maybe it's just me
Well, as Gord Downie once said before playing this song live: "This is about a man who was sort've down on his luck. So he took to the streets shaking a banana at people, trying to convince them it was making a sound." Amazing song. I prefer it live.