It's more about loss; narrator lost someone in the house and now he's trying to move on.
In a coffee can-
Throw my nickels in-
Just in case I have to leave.
from the first time I heard this line, the image of loneliness came to my mind. He's stuck in his lonely everyday life in this house with so many memories of the past, holding him back, making him angry and later crazy; contemplating leaving.
Another meaning : the house is actually his own body. It is poetry after all so you can't take it word by word. This body is our prison [in the words of Rumi].
It's more about loss; narrator lost someone in the house and now he's trying to move on. In a coffee can- Throw my nickels in- Just in case I have to leave. from the first time I heard this line, the image of loneliness came to my mind. He's stuck in his lonely everyday life in this house with so many memories of the past, holding him back, making him angry and later crazy; contemplating leaving. Another meaning : the house is actually his own body. It is poetry after all so you can't take it word by word. This body is our prison [in the words of Rumi].
@KarenZevon totally wrong Richard Ramirez Night Stalker is who he's talking about according to Jermaine Jackson
@KarenZevon totally wrong Richard Ramirez Night Stalker is who he's talking about according to Jermaine Jackson
@KarenZevon sorry wrong song, I thought you were talking about smooth criminal, it wouldn't let me delete this comment
@KarenZevon sorry wrong song, I thought you were talking about smooth criminal, it wouldn't let me delete this comment