Black Eye Lyrics

Lyric discussion by iyrn 

Cover art for Black Eye lyrics by Uncle Tupelo

once when i was 18 i got piss drunk and went to a club where i was stumbling into ppl and finally someone got mad enough to knock me a nice black eye. this feeds into mkilby's adolescent machoism theory, we call it beer muscle round here. perhaps there is an implied theme of alcoholism here? seems like uncle tupelo's shoe. it wud explain the speaker, like his father not being able to recall events and thusly being at a loss for words. im only 22 but im starting to see my face change, i think its from drinking and smoking.. in a few decades ill proly wana take down my mirrors too.