Bus Stop Boxer Lyrics

Lyric discussion by naivada 

Cover art for Bus Stop Boxer lyrics by Eels

I feel these Lyrics are about outcasts, in this case someone lost ..deranged. a weird man hanging around with its own war in his head. as we would watch his strange behavior. at a bus stop as for example.. yet not knowing what is wrong with this dude. so to me this is about a madman fighting with hard things from his past and more generaly this text by E makes me think about how life wrecks people, and leaves most of them isolated confused and lonely in their madness and among others to whom he only appears as a freaking bus stop boxer.

And this combined with wolftickets comment above is exactly what I get from this song, the personal war being waged in the subjects head is the act of desperation to find meaning.