The lyrics repeat 'all' a fair amount of times in the first stanza, and the use of 'MY language' a possessive pronoun does seem to single out the narrator whilst generalising everybody else, except the singular other individual.
He waves to this other individual and then drops off the edge of the world. I think this quite humorously refers to the brief-as-possible interaction with someone whom we are obliged to know through work, school, prison or some other unfortunate place.
'Your white face left me blue.'
The person who's spotted him is white with the fear of having to interact; the narrator is blue after the interaction because he's drained.
'How can I say all the things
I have to say to you'
In other words, how can I tell you to go away, when social etiquette obeys that I don't?
'The little time I spend with you
We drink each other dry'
They sap each other's energy in such a swift interaction.
'Mammnnarghaassstmmetc
Speak my language.'
Referring to the sound one might make upon spotting this colleague across the street? The narrator wants the person initiating the conversation to understand that neither of them desire it.
The lyrics repeat 'all' a fair amount of times in the first stanza, and the use of 'MY language' a possessive pronoun does seem to single out the narrator whilst generalising everybody else, except the singular other individual.
He waves to this other individual and then drops off the edge of the world. I think this quite humorously refers to the brief-as-possible interaction with someone whom we are obliged to know through work, school, prison or some other unfortunate place.
'Your white face left me blue.' The person who's spotted him is white with the fear of having to interact; the narrator is blue after the interaction because he's drained.
'How can I say all the things I have to say to you' In other words, how can I tell you to go away, when social etiquette obeys that I don't?
'The little time I spend with you We drink each other dry' They sap each other's energy in such a swift interaction.
'Mammnnarghaassstmmetc Speak my language.' Referring to the sound one might make upon spotting this colleague across the street? The narrator wants the person initiating the conversation to understand that neither of them desire it.