Your Belgian Things Lyrics

Lyric discussion by skateboarder873 

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

I think xcats is pretty correct about everything. The treasures gleaming like stars and everything going florescent is the cops using black light to clean everything up. naturally, stuff would have been spilled, and that (as well as everything else) is glowing under the black lights.

the "i wish you had a number where you are, it's hard with no one here to help me through it" could be a few things. The person the song is about (or people) either died, or probably arrested, or just left. John (the "me") is having a hard time coping with everything, maybe even trying to get off meth, but is having trouble with no motivation/people to help him.