So...in short, I didn't really see you as a real person but I was wrong, I didn't know you were just as human as I am.
He is just too freaking cool. I analyze this stuff too much but it's just too much fun not to.
There is a very flirtatious version of this song on the Fingerlings 2 album, which sounds like it is addressed to a woman he is attracted to (changes to the lyrics are just to the first verse, but the music is much more light in tone):
"Now tell me again what it is that you do?
I'm hard pressed to tell just by looking at you
And Im looking at you
I want to know what you're doing
And those that would judge or would say you're aloof
It's because you know that the truth is a seed
You know what you need is a conflagration..."
The line about calcium being deadly tender to the tooth may refer to the "Baby Tooth Survey" undertaken in St. Louis in the early 1960's which measured the levels of radioactive isotropes found in the baby teeth of children - it found levels of Strontium-90, a radioactive isotrope chemically similar to calcium, that was five times higher than levels measured before large-scale atomic testing began. This study led to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the UK and USSR, which ultimately led to the SALT treaties and détente.
So...in short, I didn't really see you as a real person but I was wrong, I didn't know you were just as human as I am.
He is just too freaking cool. I analyze this stuff too much but it's just too much fun not to.
There is a very flirtatious version of this song on the Fingerlings 2 album, which sounds like it is addressed to a woman he is attracted to (changes to the lyrics are just to the first verse, but the music is much more light in tone):
"Now tell me again what it is that you do? I'm hard pressed to tell just by looking at you And Im looking at you I want to know what you're doing
And those that would judge or would say you're aloof It's because you know that the truth is a seed You know what you need is a conflagration..."
(& etc...)