... >_>
Anyway.
To me, the first stanza is about those attention-seeking girls. She wants a new reason to get attention, something else to whine about. The speaker wants to be spared the dramatic story, and so he skips to the end where she saves herself/gets saved.
The second stanza is him suggesting she find another, less annoying way to get people to pay attention to her. Her looks, maybe, from the line "Better kick it from your big, brown eyes." The line after that is him telling her that people will get bored and start ignoring her if she keeps crying wolf etc.
"You spit thick and you cross your heart, but the culvert's all run dry from keeping shotgun shy" She's swearing that she's not lying or blowing things out of proportion, but she can't bring herself to fake more tears, because she cries all the time to get people to have pity on her. (A culvert is a device used to channel water. It may be used to allow water to pass underneath a road, railway, or embankment. - Wikipedia)
"All arise! I'll just be mine tonight." Everybody watch what he's doing, because this is the right way to deal with her : refuse to buy into her drama/go on a pity date with her.
"So the dollar shop shoppers
Broke the lock and they knocked you down
Better call the coppers
if you need someone to push you around"
So everyone else finally figured out her game, and know she has to find someone else who will pay attention to her. She thinks she needs someone to create real drama, possibly actually hurt her.
"But you keep on stealing..."
No matter what, she's always looking for the next pity date/person who doesn't know she's an attention whore.
I know that doesn't connect all the way, but I came here hoping for an interpretation and not finding any reputable ones, I decided to post my own opinion.
... >_> Anyway. To me, the first stanza is about those attention-seeking girls. She wants a new reason to get attention, something else to whine about. The speaker wants to be spared the dramatic story, and so he skips to the end where she saves herself/gets saved.
The second stanza is him suggesting she find another, less annoying way to get people to pay attention to her. Her looks, maybe, from the line "Better kick it from your big, brown eyes." The line after that is him telling her that people will get bored and start ignoring her if she keeps crying wolf etc.
"You spit thick and you cross your heart, but the culvert's all run dry from keeping shotgun shy" She's swearing that she's not lying or blowing things out of proportion, but she can't bring herself to fake more tears, because she cries all the time to get people to have pity on her. (A culvert is a device used to channel water. It may be used to allow water to pass underneath a road, railway, or embankment. - Wikipedia)
"All arise! I'll just be mine tonight." Everybody watch what he's doing, because this is the right way to deal with her : refuse to buy into her drama/go on a pity date with her.
"So the dollar shop shoppers Broke the lock and they knocked you down Better call the coppers if you need someone to push you around" So everyone else finally figured out her game, and know she has to find someone else who will pay attention to her. She thinks she needs someone to create real drama, possibly actually hurt her.
"But you keep on stealing..." No matter what, she's always looking for the next pity date/person who doesn't know she's an attention whore.
I know that doesn't connect all the way, but I came here hoping for an interpretation and not finding any reputable ones, I decided to post my own opinion.