Ok, first two phrases she's describing the experience of being at a stadium when the crowd goes wild. All these people are exuding so much energy and excitement over nothing. third phrase, "it was not the boilin' frustration" refers to all of these emotions she's seeing people have over this sport; pride, anger, joy, dissapointment. She thinks it's trivial. "it was not that they cannot care less" Is probably thinking that these sports enthusiasts are apathetic when it comes to real things in life. "it was not the face of that reverent place In a horrible state of undress" I think is about seeing the stadium as this place that was once sacred, and then seeing it horribly disfigured. in the last bit she comforts herself by tagging her name into a chair or something. Tagging usually makes me feel better. It's a really simple song, basically she's like, "I went to a baseball game, it was hella weird, then I tagged my name on a chair." that's how I see it anyway. -Esme
Ok, first two phrases she's describing the experience of being at a stadium when the crowd goes wild. All these people are exuding so much energy and excitement over nothing. third phrase, "it was not the boilin' frustration" refers to all of these emotions she's seeing people have over this sport; pride, anger, joy, dissapointment. She thinks it's trivial. "it was not that they cannot care less" Is probably thinking that these sports enthusiasts are apathetic when it comes to real things in life. "it was not the face of that reverent place In a horrible state of undress" I think is about seeing the stadium as this place that was once sacred, and then seeing it horribly disfigured. in the last bit she comforts herself by tagging her name into a chair or something. Tagging usually makes me feel better. It's a really simple song, basically she's like, "I went to a baseball game, it was hella weird, then I tagged my name on a chair." that's how I see it anyway. -Esme