@42 steps I get the impression the song itself has two meanings and yes I was wondering the same thing yesterday when I was playing it on Singstar. I'd only ever noticed the chorus before yesterday but listening to the lyrics I think he is referring to a Casio - as in either a Casio watch or a Casio keyboard. There are references in the verses to time which make me think of him being on about a watch such as...
@42 steps I get the impression the song itself has two meanings and yes I was wondering the same thing yesterday when I was playing it on Singstar. I'd only ever noticed the chorus before yesterday but listening to the lyrics I think he is referring to a Casio - as in either a Casio watch or a Casio keyboard. There are references in the verses to time which make me think of him being on about a watch such as...
"maybe I'm chasing time"
"maybe I'm chasing time"
"Well, I got my tracing paper, so that I could trace my clock
And the...
"Well, I got my tracing paper, so that I could trace my clock
And the bastard face kept changing, and the hands, they wouldn't stop
I was ripping out the battery, I received myself a shock
And to add insult to injury, I could still hear tick and tock"
All Casio watches are battery operated, except the kinetic watches, and I'm quite sure Casio was the first company to produce a kinetic watch - so if you took the battery out of a kinetic casio you would still hear tick and tock.
"Well, I traveled to Australia
And I traveled there by train
This something might sound strange to you
But on the way I gained a day"
Again another reference to time - if you travel to Australia at the right time you could potentially gain a day due to the time difference, also quite a few Casio watches do have world clocks on them
And finally
"Inspector, fix me, my Cassy O's burnt out
We're losing memories that I can't replace"
This line could actually be referring to some of the other things that Casio make - because Casio not only make watches (even though they're probably most famous for making both watches and musical keyboards), Casio also make projectors - the fix me line could be about him asking someone to fix his Casio, and the burnt out could be referring to a Casio projector that the bulb has burnt out on. The losing memories line could also be about the digital cameras that Casio used to make (I don't know whether they still make them - but I know years ago one of my first digital cameras was a Casio) also Casio did incorporate some of their digital cameras into their watches - I used to have one of the Casio digital camera watches - only problem was the battery was always going on it!
I wonder if the song has origins with Casio electronics. Makes me think of it.
@42 steps I get the impression the song itself has two meanings and yes I was wondering the same thing yesterday when I was playing it on Singstar. I'd only ever noticed the chorus before yesterday but listening to the lyrics I think he is referring to a Casio - as in either a Casio watch or a Casio keyboard. There are references in the verses to time which make me think of him being on about a watch such as...
@42 steps I get the impression the song itself has two meanings and yes I was wondering the same thing yesterday when I was playing it on Singstar. I'd only ever noticed the chorus before yesterday but listening to the lyrics I think he is referring to a Casio - as in either a Casio watch or a Casio keyboard. There are references in the verses to time which make me think of him being on about a watch such as...
"maybe I'm chasing time"
"maybe I'm chasing time"
"Well, I got my tracing paper, so that I could trace my clock And the...
"Well, I got my tracing paper, so that I could trace my clock And the bastard face kept changing, and the hands, they wouldn't stop I was ripping out the battery, I received myself a shock And to add insult to injury, I could still hear tick and tock"
All Casio watches are battery operated, except the kinetic watches, and I'm quite sure Casio was the first company to produce a kinetic watch - so if you took the battery out of a kinetic casio you would still hear tick and tock.
"Well, I traveled to Australia And I traveled there by train This something might sound strange to you But on the way I gained a day"
Again another reference to time - if you travel to Australia at the right time you could potentially gain a day due to the time difference, also quite a few Casio watches do have world clocks on them
And finally
"Inspector, fix me, my Cassy O's burnt out We're losing memories that I can't replace"
This line could actually be referring to some of the other things that Casio make - because Casio not only make watches (even though they're probably most famous for making both watches and musical keyboards), Casio also make projectors - the fix me line could be about him asking someone to fix his Casio, and the burnt out could be referring to a Casio projector that the bulb has burnt out on. The losing memories line could also be about the digital cameras that Casio used to make (I don't know whether they still make them - but I know years ago one of my first digital cameras was a Casio) also Casio did incorporate some of their digital cameras into their watches - I used to have one of the Casio digital camera watches - only problem was the battery was always going on it!