MX Missiles Lyrics

Lyric discussion by twanicuss 

Cover art for MX Missiles lyrics by Andrew Bird

The song is obviously about how some poeple almost seem fake or untouchable untill they have fallen at some point.

I didn't know what you were made of the colour of your blood, what you're afraid of are you made of calcium or are you carbon-based and if you're made of calcium i'll have to take a taste cause, listen, calcium is deadly tender to the tooth and it's one sure-fire way to know if you're MX-missile-proof, oh no, or if you're just aloof

Organic, or living beings are carbon based where on the other hand minnerals are calcium based. So if you are made of carbon, then you are a living creatur. If you are made of calcium, you would actually be some kind of statue "proped up in the hardware store".

Some people? In a broad sense yes, I would agree it remarks on the stony nature of people who seem to live in their minds well above the rest of us lowly masses. But somehow I think there's a girl behind this. And maybe Mr. Bird would prefer to keep that secret for himself. God knows we all have things too intimate to share. C'mon though, you don't write a song like that about just anybody...