No-one is quite sure what the hidden meaning of this song is - but everyone believes there is one.
Frank said it was partly about Beefheart's teenage slovenliness (and the way his family put up with it!) - later he appeared to confirm a suggestion that it was partly about himself working late nights in the editing room.
Ben Watson of course has a really wild theory about the song, linking it to "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station", which is that they're both about Nazi concentration camps. (For more detail, read "Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics")
No-one is quite sure what the hidden meaning of this song is - but everyone believes there is one.
Frank said it was partly about Beefheart's teenage slovenliness (and the way his family put up with it!) - later he appeared to confirm a suggestion that it was partly about himself working late nights in the editing room.
Ben Watson of course has a really wild theory about the song, linking it to "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station", which is that they're both about Nazi concentration camps. (For more detail, read "Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics")