I hate to be "that" person, but you're all terribly mistaken. For Liz's sake - just listen to the chorus! "Oh, oh, oh, IMAGINARY accomplishments..." Liz is mocking a tall tale-teller. Further evidence: "He's NOT really part-Cherokee Indian
He DIDN'T fight in the Civil War."
Don't believe me? Take it from Liz. I own a beautiful mp3 of her playing "Uncle Alvarez" live in 1998 in which she states about the song, "...Stems from a lot of dinner tables where a lot of men expounded at great length about anything they wanted to (laughs) and a lot of the women just sat there and smiled."
Essentially, the song mocks men who fabricate grand tales of their success - rather, the success they would like to have accomplished. Feminist though she may be, Liz doesn't let their wives get away - they are guilty in their deliberate ignorance (perhaps not ignorance, but deliberate submissiveness?) to their husbands' faulty tales.
By far the cleverest song on Whitechocolatespaceegg - and admittedly cleverer (though not more honest) than anything on Exile.
I hate to be "that" person, but you're all terribly mistaken. For Liz's sake - just listen to the chorus! "Oh, oh, oh, IMAGINARY accomplishments..." Liz is mocking a tall tale-teller. Further evidence: "He's NOT really part-Cherokee Indian He DIDN'T fight in the Civil War."
Don't believe me? Take it from Liz. I own a beautiful mp3 of her playing "Uncle Alvarez" live in 1998 in which she states about the song, "...Stems from a lot of dinner tables where a lot of men expounded at great length about anything they wanted to (laughs) and a lot of the women just sat there and smiled."
Essentially, the song mocks men who fabricate grand tales of their success - rather, the success they would like to have accomplished. Feminist though she may be, Liz doesn't let their wives get away - they are guilty in their deliberate ignorance (perhaps not ignorance, but deliberate submissiveness?) to their husbands' faulty tales.
By far the cleverest song on Whitechocolatespaceegg - and admittedly cleverer (though not more honest) than anything on Exile.