I love this song and have been listening a lot to it. I thought originally that it was about a excess and lust, but in fact it seems to me to be about a something much more sinister. A death. Perhaps murder or maybe just an unfortunate misadventure. In the first verse he talks about being a monster lurking underneath the bed. A monster you ain't afraid of yet. Late night girls are prostitutes probably, and Ryan sings about them being anxious. Sort of implies that perhaps the subject is a serial killer. Then theres the bit about a funeral and the reciept. The killer is caught by the police and aggressively interrogated. He toys with his interrogators and asks them to stop it please. Too weird. Creepy, especially with his allusions to toys and play. Ryan Adams never fails to surprise!
I love this song and have been listening a lot to it. I thought originally that it was about a excess and lust, but in fact it seems to me to be about a something much more sinister. A death. Perhaps murder or maybe just an unfortunate misadventure. In the first verse he talks about being a monster lurking underneath the bed. A monster you ain't afraid of yet. Late night girls are prostitutes probably, and Ryan sings about them being anxious. Sort of implies that perhaps the subject is a serial killer. Then theres the bit about a funeral and the reciept. The killer is caught by the police and aggressively interrogated. He toys with his interrogators and asks them to stop it please. Too weird. Creepy, especially with his allusions to toys and play. Ryan Adams never fails to surprise!