I've always heard this as a story about a jailbait girl with serious gamer talent (e.g., she's played some difficult game "three times perfect"). During her gaming sessions, while she's wearing imaginary sexy outfits and blowing away anime bad guys, she keeps getting interrupted by her dad about her curfew, or by her obligatory (but third-rate) boyfriend, to whom she responds typically as the petulant teeny-bopper she actually is.
Wanting to get away from her humdrum existence, she tries seducing the older-man narrator "in the room above her garage," as if she really is the sophisticated, mature person she believes herself to be from her video games, hoping that he will "take her away from all this" kid stuff. (That's not a lyric quote, just a cultural one.)
The narrator rejects her, saying that all he sees is "a girl in girly trouble," someone who would be given a "gun and tambourine" in a music video (a classic musician's insult: the tambourine is traditionally what you give the "hot chick" you want to have appear on stage with your band, but who has absolutely zero actual talent).
In the last verse, all the imaginary backstory elements are swapped around in a nonsensical mishmash, reiterating that this girl's imaginary persona is meaningless, and nothing like her real-life one.
I've always heard this as a story about a jailbait girl with serious gamer talent (e.g., she's played some difficult game "three times perfect"). During her gaming sessions, while she's wearing imaginary sexy outfits and blowing away anime bad guys, she keeps getting interrupted by her dad about her curfew, or by her obligatory (but third-rate) boyfriend, to whom she responds typically as the petulant teeny-bopper she actually is.
Wanting to get away from her humdrum existence, she tries seducing the older-man narrator "in the room above her garage," as if she really is the sophisticated, mature person she believes herself to be from her video games, hoping that he will "take her away from all this" kid stuff. (That's not a lyric quote, just a cultural one.)
The narrator rejects her, saying that all he sees is "a girl in girly trouble," someone who would be given a "gun and tambourine" in a music video (a classic musician's insult: the tambourine is traditionally what you give the "hot chick" you want to have appear on stage with your band, but who has absolutely zero actual talent).
In the last verse, all the imaginary backstory elements are swapped around in a nonsensical mishmash, reiterating that this girl's imaginary persona is meaningless, and nothing like her real-life one.
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@larry10289 execellent analysis sir!!