Unemployed Boyfriend Lyrics

Lyric discussion by osubuckeye4 

Cover art for Unemployed Boyfriend lyrics by Everclear

Um first off, this is NOT what girls want.

Penny, I would just love to see a bum rush up to you and your friends while you are walking past a liquor store telling you that he is going to impregnate you and you are going to be the father of his child. If you had mace you wouldn't hesitate to use it and if you say otherwise your just lying.

With that being said... :)

It's about one of two things... either it's literal and it's about a girl Art met outside of an unemployment office in the past that he wishes he would have had the confidence to ask out...

Or...

The less literal intrepertation. It's about the guy that Art wishes he was in his own marriage. Letting her pick the movies, not being that "obnoxious guy in the famous band" that his wife sleeps with. Being able to always be there for his little girl and wife, being able to be there to hold her hand.

I don't know, I think that is more what the song is about, but of course there are always dozens of ways to look into songs like this.