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Hulahoop Wounds Lyrics
in a small ghost town, there's a little arcade
where the poltergeists play their video games
at the top of the roof he says
game over they said, game over they said
run and get your quarters in
over cliffs we will swim ahead
do the shackles underneath your bed
haunt the records in their grooves
salem is home sentenced to live
yes this i know...comes back tenfold
at the bottom of a french blue pool
roamed the drunk chipped tooth
of the man in the moon
burn furnace burn at the bottom of the cliff
shined a diamond with no end to its trip
hook and sinker
i wrote it all down for you
match a name to the face
do you suspect?
do you confess? do you confess?
where the poltergeists play their video games
at the top of the roof he says
game over they said, game over they said
run and get your quarters in
over cliffs we will swim ahead
haunt the records in their grooves
yes this i know...comes back tenfold
roamed the drunk chipped tooth
of the man in the moon
shined a diamond with no end to its trip
match a name to the face
do you suspect?
do you confess? do you confess?
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this song rocks, i have no idea what cedric is getting at here tho, hes confusing
salem witch trials? or is that too obvious..??
im saying something based presently that resembles the salme witch trials. "salem is home sentenced to live yes this i know... comes BACK tenfold"
i think it's pretty obvious, just reading a few of the lines gives it away
Cedric says on a live performance that its about how record companys 'do bands over' and use them to gain profits without caring what hapens to the band.
'run and get you quarters in'
in record company language means
' run and give us money for the bands CD'
i think that if anything, the 'run and get your quarters in' means, hurry up and sign the band (before another label) so we (the label) can cash in on this trend/ style of music/band. the 'at the top of the roof, he says "game over" ' part seems to be saying, "ok we've used you for all you're worth now we're done with you." This is a really good song, it has alot of great vocal melodies in it.
i think its about how our big city culture affects ghost towns or towns of smaller population. in a big city you can find all types of people of all types of interest a small town kinda brings the word "flock" to mind
I always PICTURED like casper type ghosts playing pinball lol
but it being actually about oppression of being in a sucky neighbourhood where nothing remotely interesting happens, and how you get stuck with 80s games and not concerts or something?
I could swear:
"do the shackles underneath your bed haunt the shackles in their grooves"
should read:
"do the shackles underneath your bed haunt the records in their grooves"
But I won't swear to hearing any lyrics these guys sang.
(FWIW, "drunk chipped tooth of the man in the moon" and "shined a diamond with no end to its trip" don't seem to quite fit what's sung either.)