The lyrics aren't right.
It's:
For a dime bag of schoolboy
Tied up with a yellow balloon
So he is not hunting for a person. He is a drug addict looking for a dimebag of cocaine (schoolboy is slang for coke)
Balloons are also used to contain illegal narcotics.
I can only guess about the rest of the song.
Maybe in his drug induced state he accidently killed his son (downed in bath tub, starved, etc)
And I agree. It's one of the saddest song ever. Equally sad is The Tragically Hip's Fiddler's Green.
The lyrics aren't right. It's: For a dime bag of schoolboy Tied up with a yellow balloon
So he is not hunting for a person. He is a drug addict looking for a dimebag of cocaine (schoolboy is slang for coke) Balloons are also used to contain illegal narcotics.
I can only guess about the rest of the song. Maybe in his drug induced state he accidently killed his son (downed in bath tub, starved, etc)
And I agree. It's one of the saddest song ever. Equally sad is The Tragically Hip's Fiddler's Green.