A Song From Under The Floorboards Lyrics

Lyric discussion by rivelle 

Cover art for A Song From Under The Floorboards lyrics by Magazine

""I am an insect" does not refer to Kafka - anyone who's read 'The Metamorphosis' will recall that the main character was displeased to be an insect."

The song lyrics do NOT indicate a man who "pleased" to be an insect.

Like the narrator of Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground", the singer is also filled with self-loathing. As is indicated throughout when he refers to himself.

"My force of habit, I am an insect I have to confess I'm proud as hell of that fact"

is therefore meant to be amgious