Your Belgian Things Lyrics

Lyric discussion by xcats 

Cover art for Your Belgian Things lyrics by Mountain Goats, The

I think its about someone getting sent to jail for meth because We Shall All Be Healed is about the meth people John used to know. He said that Belgium is where the meth users are trying to go when they do meth, I think. Or something like that. It's about losing someone because they went to jail.

"There's guys in biohazard suits" is cause they wear those when they clean up meth labs.

"I shot a roll of thirty-two exposures My camera groans beneath the weight it bears" is photgraphing the evidence.

"They waltzed right through the door and went flourescent" is cause it was like biohazardous.

"Their boots were black and shiny and your treasures gleamed like stars Bones from deep down in the fertile crescent" is cause meth is kind of shiny... maybe.

"A tiger's never gonna change its stripes I guess I guess but Jesus what a mess One way in and no way out" cause it's hard to change when youre addicted to drugs.

"I wish you had a number where you are It's hard with no one here to help me through it" Cause he wishes he knew how to contact this person, and its hard losing them.

I agree with this theory, though I always thought this song and Mole were linked, so that instead of jail, the person he's singing about went to the hospital because of the meth lab explosion.