Dead of Winter Lyrics

Lyric discussion by battaryacid 

Cover art for Dead of Winter lyrics by Eels

sorry, that was mean.

Anyway, my grandma was in the hospital last semester and she had the number 5722 written on her hand (in marker) and looking at it upside down it looked like eels (squiggly twos, the kind you can't type) but at any rate i should've taken a photo of it.

the line about magic markers refers to doctors marking on the body where to make their incisions, and the promise of feeling no pain is broken, because there's always pain.

yeah