Metronome Arthritis Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Travis_Parker 

Cover art for Metronome Arthritis lyrics by At the Drive-In

This is the first ATDI song that's ever made immediate sense to me. The only TMV song I get is Televators. I dunno, Cedric, his lyrics are nuts, but they're so talented. At first when I read the line about the magnet and tape, I knew he was talking about hiding a crime, and other lines connect to that. So the initial part seems to be about doing the crime, arson, duh, and the next about getting rid of some of the evidence, and the anxiety of the narrator. The next part seems to me to be spreading of false evidence and then running away, with that line about zip codes. The pharmeceutical line is referring to drugs taken for calmness, and how the narrator realizes that it's getting him nowhere. Then it's more about anxiety and drugs, and the fingernails too short probably refers to biting fingernails, and that he's doing it out of fear. And the detectives will find him. Well, that's what I thought. It made sense to me to think of it that way.