For once, it seems to be a SFA song that's fairly straightforward: it appears to be about someone communicating on Citizens' Band Radio during their drive. Here's a breakdown of the slang:
A "breaker" is one using a channel; to "break" is to request permission to interrupt someone or to request to use a channel, or to initiate communication. ("Breaker breaker" means to request a channel hold off on its routine chatter.)
I think 'Breaking the law' is wordplay, and a reference to how CB radio is often assumed to be used to dodge the cops and break the law; 10-4 means "message received", and to "copy" means to receave a message clearly.
A "bear" or "Smokey" is a cop, derived from troopers wearing similar hats to the fire-prevention-awareness character Smokey the Bear. Thus, "feeding the bears" is getting pulled over and ticketed. To "hit the big slab" is to get on the highway, and one's "home twenty" is their home location, from 10-20 which is ten-code for location: "What's your 10-20?" = "What's your location?" (i.e., Where are you?)
A "cartel" is one or more users making a frequency unusable by taking it up all the time; "good buddy" is a general term for another user without specifically referring to their handle. So this verse sounds sounds to me like police trying to play friendly, but with malicious intent--hogging a channel, 'reading the mail' (listening in on transmissions).
"Go-go girls" refer to farm animals, or specifically, pigs. I'm not sure what that verse is about. To "eyeball" is to see someone, so to "eyeball again" is to see someone again.
"Eighty-eight" is originally from ham radio, meaning "love and kisses"; it can generally mean any sort of good sentiment. This line seems to mean "Best wishes/Sending my love until we see each other again."
"Mic in hand on the citizens band", therefore, is talking about his adventures on the CB airwaves.
It might be talking about falling in love over a CB radio? "Me and you, so many ways to communicate"/"88 receive me 'til we eyeball again." Or maybe it's a straightforward travelogue. Anyone know if any of the Super Furries are CB users or ex-truckers?
For once, it seems to be a SFA song that's fairly straightforward: it appears to be about someone communicating on Citizens' Band Radio during their drive. Here's a breakdown of the slang:
A "breaker" is one using a channel; to "break" is to request permission to interrupt someone or to request to use a channel, or to initiate communication. ("Breaker breaker" means to request a channel hold off on its routine chatter.) I think 'Breaking the law' is wordplay, and a reference to how CB radio is often assumed to be used to dodge the cops and break the law; 10-4 means "message received", and to "copy" means to receave a message clearly.
A "bear" or "Smokey" is a cop, derived from troopers wearing similar hats to the fire-prevention-awareness character Smokey the Bear. Thus, "feeding the bears" is getting pulled over and ticketed. To "hit the big slab" is to get on the highway, and one's "home twenty" is their home location, from 10-20 which is ten-code for location: "What's your 10-20?" = "What's your location?" (i.e., Where are you?) A "cartel" is one or more users making a frequency unusable by taking it up all the time; "good buddy" is a general term for another user without specifically referring to their handle. So this verse sounds sounds to me like police trying to play friendly, but with malicious intent--hogging a channel, 'reading the mail' (listening in on transmissions).
"Go-go girls" refer to farm animals, or specifically, pigs. I'm not sure what that verse is about. To "eyeball" is to see someone, so to "eyeball again" is to see someone again.
"Eighty-eight" is originally from ham radio, meaning "love and kisses"; it can generally mean any sort of good sentiment. This line seems to mean "Best wishes/Sending my love until we see each other again."
"Mic in hand on the citizens band", therefore, is talking about his adventures on the CB airwaves.
It might be talking about falling in love over a CB radio? "Me and you, so many ways to communicate"/"88 receive me 'til we eyeball again." Or maybe it's a straightforward travelogue. Anyone know if any of the Super Furries are CB users or ex-truckers?