It is about a guy who is an idiot savant (he's really good at something), but he is really careless about making decisions, and he's really ignorant and doesn't know that what he's doing hurts everyone else. He only learned one thing from all of his mistakes, that it doesn't pay to be too nice.
"I have made my fossil bed
Now I toss and turn"
Those lyrics mean that he has finally learned and is not careless, but all his old mistakes still haunt him.
It is about a guy who is an idiot savant (he's really good at something), but he is really careless about making decisions, and he's really ignorant and doesn't know that what he's doing hurts everyone else. He only learned one thing from all of his mistakes, that it doesn't pay to be too nice.
"I have made my fossil bed Now I toss and turn" Those lyrics mean that he has finally learned and is not careless, but all his old mistakes still haunt him.