Chopsticks Lyrics

Lyric discussion by ClymClemClam 

Cover art for Chopsticks lyrics by Liz Phair

I think it's about a girl who's not just timid but also naïve. She intends to do something spontaneous/ something to show that she's mature (have sex with someone she barely knows) but she doesn't know how to go about it. He talks about kinky things: doing it backwards and the thing with jacks but her mind is too innocent to know how to respond properly. She's thinking about things children would think about: TV, summer camp, etc. When she talks about her skills in the actual kid's game as opposed to in the bed, perhaps he realizes how innocent she really is because that's when "all hell broke loose".

@ClymClemClam I'm pretty sure the reference to jacks is not a reference to any kind of sex act. If "playing jacks" or doing anything with jacks is a slang expression for some kind of sex act then I could find no evidence of it on the internet. If you know otherwise then please tell us about it?