Maybe my mind is just in the gutter here, but I think the second verse is a sexual reference. It does not really fit in with the other two verses, except in form. However, too many things seem to refer to sex/contraception.
"Flowing through the hourglass
Pushing through the funnel"
Not to take you back to 7th grade health class here, but a woman's uterus does slightly resemble an hourglass and sort of funnels at the bottom.
"Turn once more while racing
All your siblings for the tunnel"
Thousands of little sperm (would-be siblings) race through the tunnel (vagina) to inseminate the woman's egg.
This next part transitions into what happens if contraception is used:
"Slide and let the silicone
Embrace you as you fall"
Some condoms are made with silicone-based lubricants. It will embrace the sperm as they "fall."
"Then bounce and land you let
Your brothers crush you to the wall"
The condom stops the sperm from entering the vagina. Instead it is crushed by its "brothers" against the condom.
The sexual reference does not fit in with the rest of the song thematically. However, the form of Verse 1 is the same as the form in Verse 2. Verse 1 transitions from Scenario A (A gunshot victim) to Scenario B (The would-be victim "wrest[ing] the pistol from the hand" of the shooter). Verse 2 transitions from Scenario A (Contraception) to Scenario B (Use of contraception). Identical form.
I know it's a long shot, but this is just how I've always understood that verse. I think the overall meaning of the song is more similar to what DeathBear and PhisHeretic contributed, but I do see another meaning in verse 2. I acknowledge there is an obvious description of sand simply falling through an hourglass, but I am just suggesting there could be another meaning. Let me know if anyone agrees with my argument, or at least sees any merit in it.
Either way, this is a kick-ass, phunky-ass song...Especially live!
Maybe my mind is just in the gutter here, but I think the second verse is a sexual reference. It does not really fit in with the other two verses, except in form. However, too many things seem to refer to sex/contraception.
Not to take you back to 7th grade health class here, but a woman's uterus does slightly resemble an hourglass and sort of funnels at the bottom.
Thousands of little sperm (would-be siblings) race through the tunnel (vagina) to inseminate the woman's egg.
This next part transitions into what happens if contraception is used: "Slide and let the silicone Embrace you as you fall"
Some condoms are made with silicone-based lubricants. It will embrace the sperm as they "fall."
The condom stops the sperm from entering the vagina. Instead it is crushed by its "brothers" against the condom.
The sexual reference does not fit in with the rest of the song thematically. However, the form of Verse 1 is the same as the form in Verse 2. Verse 1 transitions from Scenario A (A gunshot victim) to Scenario B (The would-be victim "wrest[ing] the pistol from the hand" of the shooter). Verse 2 transitions from Scenario A (Contraception) to Scenario B (Use of contraception). Identical form.
I know it's a long shot, but this is just how I've always understood that verse. I think the overall meaning of the song is more similar to what DeathBear and PhisHeretic contributed, but I do see another meaning in verse 2. I acknowledge there is an obvious description of sand simply falling through an hourglass, but I am just suggesting there could be another meaning. Let me know if anyone agrees with my argument, or at least sees any merit in it.
Either way, this is a kick-ass, phunky-ass song...Especially live!
CORRECTIONVerse 2 transitions from Scenario A (Conception) to Scenario B (Use of contraception). Identical form.** :)
CORRECTIONVerse 2 transitions from Scenario A (Conception) to Scenario B (Use of contraception). Identical form.** :)