There's a common phrase, "You'll miss me when I'm dead", and I think that is the mentality of this song. He is fantasizing over the idea of being dead and coming back to a lover and asking the questions you would ask when you were dead, doing the things that you never could in life. "Why did you not talk to me?". He is probably not really "dead" either, as he says, "If I can talk 'til I'm dead and still not get in your head,"
I think it's a pretty interesting topic to tackle with a song. Kudos Ted Leo. This is a great album except for one song. Go buy it.
There's a common phrase, "You'll miss me when I'm dead", and I think that is the mentality of this song. He is fantasizing over the idea of being dead and coming back to a lover and asking the questions you would ask when you were dead, doing the things that you never could in life. "Why did you not talk to me?". He is probably not really "dead" either, as he says, "If I can talk 'til I'm dead and still not get in your head," I think it's a pretty interesting topic to tackle with a song. Kudos Ted Leo. This is a great album except for one song. Go buy it.