in groping for an overarching theme, i want to go to something like the end of the american manufacturing economy and, by extension, perhaps globalization, but none of that stuff is really here (apart, perhaps, for the sample about "capitalist sin"), though it permeates many other grotus songs. perhaps lars was just having a rough morning and decided to make a song out of it.
this is amazingly similar, lyrically, anyway, to king crimson's "dig me," a first-person account of a car rusting away in a junkyard:
http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/118594/
in groping for an overarching theme, i want to go to something like the end of the american manufacturing economy and, by extension, perhaps globalization, but none of that stuff is really here (apart, perhaps, for the sample about "capitalist sin"), though it permeates many other grotus songs. perhaps lars was just having a rough morning and decided to make a song out of it.