The Infinite Pet Lyrics

Lyric discussion by LoserNo1 

Cover art for The Infinite Pet lyrics by Spoon

neckrug, not hairrug. I get that the theme with that is the hair on the back of his neck, that patch that most men can't cut themselves and which he apparently wants to keep warm, but I don't fully understand all that.

When I got up I cut my neckrug off Resigned my name to the ranks of the blamed and the scoffed Cursing the day I met The infinite pet

I sat back I put my neckshirt on Resigned myself to the fate of the failed and the conned Just like the day I met The infinite pet

So I guess cutting the neckrug is shedding himself of her, making him the object of scorn and blame, most likely by her.

Then the dangerous coat check, he was out with this girl and at the coat check one of the other guys she sees showed up and blew her cover and that's what makes the coat check dangerous. The neckshirt might be a kind of false identity. He's not being completely natural from now on. He's on guard and he feels conned and like a failure because she was so slutty.