This will seem strange but I think this song is about someone who killed a coworker or manager at a McDonald’s and goes to trial gets executed. “Hit him with a book and how he crumbles, Oh you should see how the arches tumbled , They’re golden no more “ The Golden Arches says McDonald’s to me, and then he’s standing on trial with the courtroom illustration “it’s painted on canvas, an eternal testament to how we are so animalistic”— killing someone in an act of violence is an act of animal brutality. He’s commenting too on people seeing it as tragic and if they feel pity towards him “if your eyes water, you got your favorite number to spin”— the outcome being uncertain. He’s also seeking redemption asking for that purest light to shine on him. In the end he’s fantasizing about what his life could have been right as he is being put to death. It might seem like a strange interpretation but I do wonder if he wrote this based on something that really happened. After all, he wrote about John Wayne Gacy in Clowning Around.
This will seem strange but I think this song is about someone who killed a coworker or manager at a McDonald’s and goes to trial gets executed. “Hit him with a book and how he crumbles, Oh you should see how the arches tumbled , They’re golden no more “ The Golden Arches says McDonald’s to me, and then he’s standing on trial with the courtroom illustration “it’s painted on canvas, an eternal testament to how we are so animalistic”— killing someone in an act of violence is an act of animal brutality. He’s commenting too on people seeing it as tragic and if they feel pity towards him “if your eyes water, you got your favorite number to spin”— the outcome being uncertain. He’s also seeking redemption asking for that purest light to shine on him. In the end he’s fantasizing about what his life could have been right as he is being put to death. It might seem like a strange interpretation but I do wonder if he wrote this based on something that really happened. After all, he wrote about John Wayne Gacy in Clowning Around.