Mathew Lyrics

Lyric discussion by erlim 

Cover art for Mathew lyrics by Bombadil

I think they are singing about boarding school. At least it seems like a boarding school. Lightsout, boxing during study time, pretty strict rules and being on the bubble of getting kicked out of school; sounds like my boarding school experience. Are they referencing Rushmore by Wes Anderson?

My Interpretation

They went to North Carolina School of Science and Math in Durham, NC. It's only for juniors and seniors in high school and is highly competitive to get into. And yes, it is indeed a boarding school.

Stuart Robinson is from Oklahoma, and he wrote this song. He's singing about the Oklahoma School for Science and Math, where there was a teacher of Biology named Dr. Peter Kish. (You can look him up on LinkedIn; he's currently working Pennsylvania.) Yersinia Pestis is the bacterium that becomes the Bubonic Plague, which they would have studied in biology.

I wonder if Dr. Kish knows that he has been immortalized in a song.

Shawnee is Shawnee, Oklahoma, where Oklahoma Baptist University is located. It's about 40 miles east of Oklahoma City, where OSSM is located. He could be comparing Rushmore...