Also, the "Two sips from your crown" line is very similarly repeated in a later New Pornographers song, "Use It" from their Twin Cinema album, released in 2005.
In this first song released in 2000, it is this:
"Oh blast, I drank the wrong draft down
Two sips from your crown
The drops you left for me
Am I so easily appeased?"
Taking the whole song in context, it's about the singer realizing, "I drank a measly amount of a not life-sustaining solution; mere drops, all from the 'crown' of 'royalty.' I need water, but this is not only not enough, it's poisoning, adding insults to injury."
Now, back to the later song released in 2005. In "Use It," the line is "Two sips from the crown of human kindness, and I'm shit-faced."
This one sounds like getting drunk off either kindness, or false kindness. Either way, it's drunk, so it's not the clearest thinking, and it can be over-confident and stupid. However, I'm only taking the one line out of the entire song, without context of that song. I'd like to analyze that song, too. Maybe I'll have thoughts posted about "Use It" by the time you see this.
Also, the "Two sips from your crown" line is very similarly repeated in a later New Pornographers song, "Use It" from their Twin Cinema album, released in 2005.
In this first song released in 2000, it is this:
"Oh blast, I drank the wrong draft down Two sips from your crown The drops you left for me Am I so easily appeased?"
Taking the whole song in context, it's about the singer realizing, "I drank a measly amount of a not life-sustaining solution; mere drops, all from the 'crown' of 'royalty.' I need water, but this is not only not enough, it's poisoning, adding insults to injury."
Now, back to the later song released in 2005. In "Use It," the line is "Two sips from the crown of human kindness, and I'm shit-faced."
This one sounds like getting drunk off either kindness, or false kindness. Either way, it's drunk, so it's not the clearest thinking, and it can be over-confident and stupid. However, I'm only taking the one line out of the entire song, without context of that song. I'd like to analyze that song, too. Maybe I'll have thoughts posted about "Use It" by the time you see this.