I will start by saying I love this song and the album it came off of very much and I will tell you it inspires a strange story for me.
Before I discuss the title character, Tulip Baroo, I feel like the narrator of the song is a secret agent involved in a spy mission, almost like a strange James Bond. Tulip Baroo is another spy or perhaps a powerful, deadly enemy. As the song goes it mentions other characters like the magnetic rollerskater and the turtle necked boatman. They are the other world leaders involved with the main characters, the narrator and Tulip Baroo.
Specific moments of pursuit can be inferred by the lyrics "Caught you" used twice. The idea of catching the Tulip Baroon "disguised as a man with a moustache selling secrets to a canned tomato" really seems to be an act of shady exchanges of classified information.
Think about the reference to the "Coup" and how that is a military reference as well as to societal downfall. Getting back to the idea of a wacky James Bond, being able to control the weather on an island in Spain almost seems too fitting for the real Bond villain.
The very end makes me think of some kind of bomb blast with the character "Underhanded grocer" who is "Soaking a tube." Specifically in reference to the ground splitting wide open.
I will start by saying I love this song and the album it came off of very much and I will tell you it inspires a strange story for me.
Before I discuss the title character, Tulip Baroo, I feel like the narrator of the song is a secret agent involved in a spy mission, almost like a strange James Bond. Tulip Baroo is another spy or perhaps a powerful, deadly enemy. As the song goes it mentions other characters like the magnetic rollerskater and the turtle necked boatman. They are the other world leaders involved with the main characters, the narrator and Tulip Baroo.
Specific moments of pursuit can be inferred by the lyrics "Caught you" used twice. The idea of catching the Tulip Baroon "disguised as a man with a moustache selling secrets to a canned tomato" really seems to be an act of shady exchanges of classified information.
Think about the reference to the "Coup" and how that is a military reference as well as to societal downfall. Getting back to the idea of a wacky James Bond, being able to control the weather on an island in Spain almost seems too fitting for the real Bond villain.
The very end makes me think of some kind of bomb blast with the character "Underhanded grocer" who is "Soaking a tube." Specifically in reference to the ground splitting wide open.
Sorry if that was too abstract!