This song is sort of like the "Bright Flight" Rosetta Stone. It's completely fat with Southern Gothic images, bitter humor and cryptic metaphors. I don't know if this song is about anything greater than the success of its own poetry, but if I had to suggest some point to it....how bout drug addiction? Or not?
Also, "Bright Flight" is Berman's most interesting achievement in terms of lyric and theme. All the songs seem to reference one another throughout. Here, there's Abraham Lincoln trees which connect with the George Washington reference in "Slow Education." Plus we have the shotgun horse legs and something else in "Horseleg Swastikas."
I think you're right that the best part of the song is the poetry, but I would suggest that it's not about drugs, it's about Berman's loathing of rich people, which I'm pretty sure he's mentioned in some interviews. Also, I think in the song maybe the singer kills the owner of the mansion. The first verse he's inside the home noting what he sees, the butler hesitates when he notices the intruder, and the action sequence is represented through the exploding tanning beds (could be literal or symbolic within the story). In the second verse the singer leaves the...
I think you're right that the best part of the song is the poetry, but I would suggest that it's not about drugs, it's about Berman's loathing of rich people, which I'm pretty sure he's mentioned in some interviews. Also, I think in the song maybe the singer kills the owner of the mansion. The first verse he's inside the home noting what he sees, the butler hesitates when he notices the intruder, and the action sequence is represented through the exploding tanning beds (could be literal or symbolic within the story). In the second verse the singer leaves the mansion and returns to his horse. With the kill fresh in his mind we get the metaphors of the house weeping and the horses legs looking like shotguns.
This song is sort of like the "Bright Flight" Rosetta Stone. It's completely fat with Southern Gothic images, bitter humor and cryptic metaphors. I don't know if this song is about anything greater than the success of its own poetry, but if I had to suggest some point to it....how bout drug addiction? Or not?
Also, "Bright Flight" is Berman's most interesting achievement in terms of lyric and theme. All the songs seem to reference one another throughout. Here, there's Abraham Lincoln trees which connect with the George Washington reference in "Slow Education." Plus we have the shotgun horse legs and something else in "Horseleg Swastikas."
I think you're right that the best part of the song is the poetry, but I would suggest that it's not about drugs, it's about Berman's loathing of rich people, which I'm pretty sure he's mentioned in some interviews. Also, I think in the song maybe the singer kills the owner of the mansion. The first verse he's inside the home noting what he sees, the butler hesitates when he notices the intruder, and the action sequence is represented through the exploding tanning beds (could be literal or symbolic within the story). In the second verse the singer leaves the...
I think you're right that the best part of the song is the poetry, but I would suggest that it's not about drugs, it's about Berman's loathing of rich people, which I'm pretty sure he's mentioned in some interviews. Also, I think in the song maybe the singer kills the owner of the mansion. The first verse he's inside the home noting what he sees, the butler hesitates when he notices the intruder, and the action sequence is represented through the exploding tanning beds (could be literal or symbolic within the story). In the second verse the singer leaves the mansion and returns to his horse. With the kill fresh in his mind we get the metaphors of the house weeping and the horses legs looking like shotguns.