Reading these comments, makes me realize I hear this song completely different than everybody else here. When I hear it and I hear about The Iceman's mule, and the German dwarf dancing with the butcher's son it makes me think about World War 2 Hitler and Mussolini. I always misunderstood the line she climbed into a van she climbed into an oven. With a vagabond. The dancing on the roof in the ceilings coming down I always took to mean the Blitzkrieg where the attack on London, and sleeping with a shovel and leather gloves I always took to mean you know just how the night Watchman would always do it.
So when I heard that line climb into an oven. I always assumed dead of the Jewish death camps.
Reading these comments, makes me realize I hear this song completely different than everybody else here. When I hear it and I hear about The Iceman's mule, and the German dwarf dancing with the butcher's son it makes me think about World War 2 Hitler and Mussolini. I always misunderstood the line she climbed into a van she climbed into an oven. With a vagabond. The dancing on the roof in the ceilings coming down I always took to mean the Blitzkrieg where the attack on London, and sleeping with a shovel and leather gloves I always took to mean you know just how the night Watchman would always do it. So when I heard that line climb into an oven. I always assumed dead of the Jewish death camps.