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Pillbox Tales Lyrics
Electric line
Racing time
Fire down the wall
Spinning around
The killing ground
It makes you look so small
Henna years
The stinging tears
Flesh on the railway track
The screaming queen
On the TV screen
Is never coming back
Don't suffer no more
Just step inside and listen
Listen to my pillbox tales
Your special days
Your winning ways
You're living out the past
You're lying lies
And tying ties
And running much too fast
But you feel so sick
If you run too quick
And wishing every day
Wishing you were all alone
Wishing you were years away
Don't suffer no more
Just step inside and listen
Listen to my pillbox tales
Racing time
Fire down the wall
Spinning around
The killing ground
It makes you look so small
The stinging tears
Flesh on the railway track
The screaming queen
On the TV screen
Is never coming back
Just step inside and listen
Listen to my pillbox tales
Your winning ways
You're living out the past
You're lying lies
And tying ties
And running much too fast
But you feel so sick
If you run too quick
And wishing every day
Wishing you were all alone
Wishing you were years away
Just step inside and listen
Listen to my pillbox tales
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I think it's about post traumatic stress disorder. A soldier returns from a conflict and is screwed up, running from his problems, running so quick to take his mind off what he's seen. The last lines suggest he should join a support group. I agree with fleaaaaa that this song could have been done better. The cover by ThouShaltNot has a much darker sound which is more fitting for a song like this.
before the cure were the cure they were easy cure and were sort of a punk band, robs voice hadnt broke, they were cheesey, and the producation was awful, they sound absolutely hilarious, like rob has sucked in a helium balloon - adam
A pillbox is a type of long-term fortification, like a bunker of sorts. The Maginot Line in France, taken by the Germans twice, had plenty of them. It saw a lot of use over the years.
So what I imagine while i listen to the ThouShaltNot cover, is a worn out soldier (doesn't matter what side) taking sheter in a pillbox during shelling, and the ghost of someone from a previous war talking to him, saying that the world as we know it might well be over, but he'll be safe here for now, long as he is willing to lend an ear "and listen to my pillbox tales".
"The screaming queen On the TV screen Is never coming back" this bit makes me think that it's set during a major conflict yet to come, as the television phenomenon hadn't really kicked yet off during the last two world wars.