This song is a disturbing meditation on the misery and existential dread of modern life and relationships. The "big bottom" refers to the dark pit of depression which pushes one toward severe mental illness ("drives me out of my mind"). The singer asks mournfully how it he can leave behind his misery.
The singer observes that the modern consumerist, hedonist media tells us that creature comforts (big cushions) will provide happiness while we toil (sweet pushing). We are told that we are dying (in deep quicksand) if we can't over-consume (a loose waistband)...or so he has read.
He describes his life's object (his "baby") as an stifling, bloody suit (a "flesh tuxedo") and imagines destroying it with explosives to get some relief from its horror.
The second verse is probably just about sex, though. Yes, we know what you mean.
This song is a disturbing meditation on the misery and existential dread of modern life and relationships. The "big bottom" refers to the dark pit of depression which pushes one toward severe mental illness ("drives me out of my mind"). The singer asks mournfully how it he can leave behind his misery.
The singer observes that the modern consumerist, hedonist media tells us that creature comforts (big cushions) will provide happiness while we toil (sweet pushing). We are told that we are dying (in deep quicksand) if we can't over-consume (a loose waistband)...or so he has read.
He describes his life's object (his "baby") as an stifling, bloody suit (a "flesh tuxedo") and imagines destroying it with explosives to get some relief from its horror.
The second verse is probably just about sex, though. Yes, we know what you mean.