My first thought about this song was that he was making fun of a girl he was hanging out with who apparently said she was Walt Whitmans neice, "but not which neice", hence the theme of the song not remembering which night, seaman, building, stairs and so on.
My first thought about this song was that he was making fun of a girl he was hanging out with who apparently said she was Walt Whitmans neice, "but not which neice", hence the theme of the song not remembering which night, seaman, building, stairs and so on.