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Greasy jungle metropolis noir
Easy tangles the easiest so far
Ah
I drove down your road
to Hazeldean where I tasted
your funeral home's sandwiches and coffee
I saw your hands melt into one another
I saw you grieve and grow
care a lot about one another
I stood at your sink
and I felt your warm water
I washed your dishes
and I looked out your kitchen window where I
saw a soulful gymnast
melt in the air and shudder
just above the snow
making moves that just weren't there
Ah
Velvet callow with wet hands
I turned out the lights and
breathing shallow hesitated
then went upstairs where
I picked up your housecoat
dried my hands and
touched your hair
and just then you awoke
you could never really barely care
Ah
Greasy jungle metropolis noir
Easy tangles the easiest so far
Ah
I drove down your road
to Hazeldean where I tasted
your funeral home's sandwiches and coffee
I saw your hands melt into one another
I saw you grieve and grow
care a lot about one another
I stood at your sink
and I felt your warm water
I washed your dishes
and I looked out your kitchen window where I
saw a soulful gymnast
melt in the air and shudder
just above the snow
making moves that just weren't there
Ah
Velvet callow with wet hands
I turned out the lights and
breathing shallow hesitated
then went upstairs where
I picked up your housecoat
dried my hands and
touched your hair
and just then you awoke
you could never really barely care
Ah
Greasy jungle metropolis noir
Song Info
Submitted by
black_cow_of_death On Jan 26, 2002
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"Greasy Jungle, Metropolis noir, easy tangles..." Sounds like a part of the female anatomy to me.
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Uhm... someone died? I don't get it. I wonder what a greasy jungle is referring to...
I am looking at the liner notes for the CD right now and there is a photograph of a black cityscape. It seems to me that this is one of those stories where the tragedies of life are just another line in the collective history of the city. It happens so many times that it may make the city a "black metropolis" or a "greasy jungle". I don't know, am I ever right with this stuff?
The first line states "... metropolis noir " noir means black in french. hence the black city on the jacket booklet. what i intepret this song as is simple a dark day for the whole city. even washing the dishes is a sad task.
The whole song sounds like he's going down on a girl who isn't really enjoying it, and he's not really into it either, but is making the effort for her
My impression of the lyrics refer to this dude has mental health issues and is obsessed about this chick who works at a funeral home and he stalks her
Well i was watching a video on youtube live when they performed the song and gord claimed it was if i recall correctly about one of the members of the band getting a hair cut