Modest Mouse has another song called 'heart cooks brain' and i think that this may be applying a similar comparison/juxtaposition.
I feel like he his brain convinced his heart (or vice versa) to do something that killed him (literally or figuratively) and now both (heart/brain, body/soul) are dead - "flies gather around you and me too"
"You ask me what size it is, not what i sell" - kinda like how a salesman is just giving you a spiel of all these great features when you don't know what you're actually buying. basically he lied to himself about what he was getting into
"i don't want you to be alone down there" - i think his decision killed his soul but keep his body alive. i don't think he wants to live with what he did that just killed his soul so he kills himself (just realized this as i typed it)
"devil's apprentice, he gave me some credit, he fed me a line and i'll probably regret it" - devil's apprentice = devil's advocate which can argue any point (even if he knows it's wrong), so (again) he talked himself into something he knew was wrong
Modest Mouse has another song called 'heart cooks brain' and i think that this may be applying a similar comparison/juxtaposition. I feel like he his brain convinced his heart (or vice versa) to do something that killed him (literally or figuratively) and now both (heart/brain, body/soul) are dead - "flies gather around you and me too" "You ask me what size it is, not what i sell" - kinda like how a salesman is just giving you a spiel of all these great features when you don't know what you're actually buying. basically he lied to himself about what he was getting into "i don't want you to be alone down there" - i think his decision killed his soul but keep his body alive. i don't think he wants to live with what he did that just killed his soul so he kills himself (just realized this as i typed it) "devil's apprentice, he gave me some credit, he fed me a line and i'll probably regret it" - devil's apprentice = devil's advocate which can argue any point (even if he knows it's wrong), so (again) he talked himself into something he knew was wrong