No, there is actually no meaning at all behind the lyrics. The band were jamming to write this song, and Belew had no lyrics but an idea of the phrasing for the melody. So he just wrote a line (Happy with what you have to be happy with) that had the right amount of syllables for the wacked time signature the band were playing around. The rest of the lyrics were then written as a joke (then Im gonna have to write a chorus ect.) but the rest of the group liked it so much that the working lyrics stuck. Read it in this interview:http://www.vintagerock.com/abelew_interview.aspx
Check it out, lots of cool shit in there.
No, there is actually no meaning at all behind the lyrics. The band were jamming to write this song, and Belew had no lyrics but an idea of the phrasing for the melody. So he just wrote a line (Happy with what you have to be happy with) that had the right amount of syllables for the wacked time signature the band were playing around. The rest of the lyrics were then written as a joke (then Im gonna have to write a chorus ect.) but the rest of the group liked it so much that the working lyrics stuck. Read it in this interview:http://www.vintagerock.com/abelew_interview.aspx Check it out, lots of cool shit in there.