Haha, yeah I see what you mean by your enterpratation and I totally agree with it. It's just that although the story is so sad, it's told in such a cheerful way (with the melody of the song and it's humoristic refrences) that you still don't get sad when you listen to it. At least I don't... I also think the character, the mermaid, is coming to terms with her lost voice and bleeding feet (or bad choices as you put it) and that the verse "I was so lonely walking out of that store... ...took it home and named it mozart" is there to reflect, as the old saying goes "when a door closes, a window opens up". She lost the man in the record store but then got a plant. Although theese two "friends" hardly can compare with each other, a plant is better than being alone and you can't go on regreting the past forever. Afterwards she gets rid of her tail and gets on with her life, instead of spending forever wondering what could have been. Despite everything I think it's a happy song.
Haha, yeah I see what you mean by your enterpratation and I totally agree with it. It's just that although the story is so sad, it's told in such a cheerful way (with the melody of the song and it's humoristic refrences) that you still don't get sad when you listen to it. At least I don't... I also think the character, the mermaid, is coming to terms with her lost voice and bleeding feet (or bad choices as you put it) and that the verse "I was so lonely walking out of that store... ...took it home and named it mozart" is there to reflect, as the old saying goes "when a door closes, a window opens up". She lost the man in the record store but then got a plant. Although theese two "friends" hardly can compare with each other, a plant is better than being alone and you can't go on regreting the past forever. Afterwards she gets rid of her tail and gets on with her life, instead of spending forever wondering what could have been. Despite everything I think it's a happy song.