This is one of my favorite Grant Lee Buffalo songs. To me the song personifies deception as a being of some sort, who tags along, enticing one to not believe in oneself, or demean oneself. The first 3 verses talking about a slave working in the cotton fields that sings along, seemingly content with the situation (or at least tolerating it). The 4th verse talks of 'Charlie' and his sex and drug obsession. I like the 'While Deception was a clickin' his high heels' part because it portrays the women (or men) that Charlie sleeps with are deceiving him into being this horrible creature. 'clicking his high heels' could mean that the man is sleeping with other men, or it is just the demon 'deception' (being a male demon of sorts) taking control of women to deceive him.
I am not totally sure about the last part. What is the something that saved his skin? Realization that he can change? A higher power? Was he saved right before going to hell? I have no clue.
This is one of my favorite Grant Lee Buffalo songs. To me the song personifies deception as a being of some sort, who tags along, enticing one to not believe in oneself, or demean oneself. The first 3 verses talking about a slave working in the cotton fields that sings along, seemingly content with the situation (or at least tolerating it). The 4th verse talks of 'Charlie' and his sex and drug obsession. I like the 'While Deception was a clickin' his high heels' part because it portrays the women (or men) that Charlie sleeps with are deceiving him into being this horrible creature. 'clicking his high heels' could mean that the man is sleeping with other men, or it is just the demon 'deception' (being a male demon of sorts) taking control of women to deceive him.
I am not totally sure about the last part. What is the something that saved his skin? Realization that he can change? A higher power? Was he saved right before going to hell? I have no clue.