Lyric discussion by imiel22 

Cover art for Emerging lyrics by Mountain Goats, The

This song is about that universal moment everyone experiences when your moon colony has failed and all the people you used to be surrounded by die, and you decide, in your loneliness, "Well damnit I sure am awful hungry, and my old coworkers sure are awful dead, and don't they look awful delicious, too." So naturally you eat their organs. In another sense, this song is about the harmful things solitude and desperation make you do, and how sometimes you enjoy them.