Mexican Wine Lyrics
They scattered his ashes across the ocean
The water was used to make baby lotion
The wheels of promotion were set into motion
But the sun still shines in the summer time
I'll be yours if you'll be mine
I tried to change but I changed my mind
Think I'll have another glass of Mexican wine
Across the street from the Health department
She left her pills in the glove compartment
That was the afternoon her heart went
And the sun still shines in the summer time
I'll be yours if you'll be mine
I tried to change but I changed my mind
Think I'll have another glass of Mexican wine
Think I'll have another glass of Mexican wine
Then I got fired for reading High Times
License expired in almost no time
Now I'm retired and I think that's fine
Because the sun still shines in the summer time
I'll be yours if you'll be mine
I tried to change but I changed my mind
Think I'll have another glass of Mexican wine
(repeat 1x)
Won't you have another glass of Mexican wine?
I'm a little surprised that no one has suggested this yet (and I'd also like to put a vote in for 'wheels of PROmotion', which is what he clearly sings), but this song is certainly not a positive "everything will be all right" message.
The premise, as in most of the songs from this album, (and, really, most every FoW song in general) is of suburban desperation. It's the same idea as Hackensack, Fire Island, Bright Future in Sales, and even Stacy's Mom.
The most important thing to realize is that you have an untrustworthy narrator here. Listen to what he's saying in the chorus: "I tried to change but I changed my mind." When you put that together with "The sun still shines in the summertime / I'll be yours if you'll be mine" you've got a pretty solid presentation of the societal ills associated with the wealthy, suburban upper-middle class in America. (Specifically the New York metropolitan area, if you'd like. Long Island, if you wanna go deeper.)
It's a testament to the new post Gen-Y descriptor as the "Me Generation" - morally ambiguous [unbridled] selfishness in everything we do. Having the physical capability to change, but being so emotionally incapable and lazy that you just give up and use the excuse of "I could've, but I changed my mind." Even "I'll be yours if you'll be mine" is a barter, to pass the responsibility off on another. Everything else here is just a painting of banality. It's the theme for the whole album.
Thank you Dabizi! If any FOW bandmates ever read this thread they will be completely depressed until they come to your post. Everyone else simply mirrors back the narrator's lazy, hackneyed, feel-good emotional response to the world. (Party on, dude, whatevs) You actually gave it a fraction of the human thought and feeling that the artists put into it. (For what it's worth, i think the corrosive 'tude the song captures & critiques is not ONLY found in upper middle class suburbs, but all over the place. Like in middle class towns, urban hoods, rural communities, where the posters on this thread reside!) But you're so good i'll quote you again:
Rated 100 I'm a little surprised that no one has suggested this yet (and I'd also like to put a vote in for 'wheels of PROmotion', which is what he clearly sings), but this song is certainly not a positive "everything will be all right" message.
The premise, as in most of the songs from this album, (and, really, most every FoW song in general) is of suburban desperation. It's the same idea as Hackensack, Fire Island, Bright Future in Sales, and even Stacy's Mom.
The most important thing to realize is that you have an untrustworthy narrator here. Listen to what he's saying in the chorus: "I tried to change but I changed my mind." When you put that together with "The sun still shines in the summertime / I'll be yours if you'll be mine" you've got a pretty solid presentation of the societal ills associated with the wealthy, suburban upper-middle class in America. (Specifically the New York metropolitan area, if you'd like. Long Island, if you wanna go deeper.)
It's a testament to the new post Gen-Y descriptor as the "Me Generation" - morally ambiguous [unbridled] selfishness in everything we do. Having the physical capability to change, but being so emotionally incapable and lazy that you just give up and use the excuse of "I could've, but I changed my mind." Even "I'll be yours if you'll be mine" is a barter, to pass the responsibility off on another. Everything else here is just a painting of banality. It's the theme for the whole album.
I marked you up a point, but only because I was so enamoured by such a long-winded post (that's actually a compliment) filled with such grand introspect and spectaclar vocabulary...banality, morally ambiguous, suburban desperation, corrosive, urban hood, heckneyed (my word), etc. Honestly, I have no clue what you meant by it all (it went over my fake blonde roots), but I'm guessin' you wrote some darn good stuff:)
I marked you up a point, but only because I was so enamoured by such a long-winded post (that's actually a compliment) filled with such grand introspect and spectaclar vocabulary...banality, morally ambiguous, suburban desperation, corrosive, urban hood, heckneyed (my word), etc. Honestly, I have no clue what you meant by it all (it went over my fake blonde roots), but I'm guessin' you wrote some darn good stuff:)
Thanks, by the way. Ha! Your post quoting mine got even more play than mine! I finally got around to writing one for Stacy's Mom too; see it here: http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858487561/?&specific_com=73016205249#comments
Thanks, by the way. Ha! Your post quoting mine got even more play than mine! I finally got around to writing one for Stacy's Mom too; see it here: http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858487561/?&specific_com=73016205249#comments
"That was the afternoon her heart went" wonderful lyric
i love this song
this song could mean so many things (this is the only song i like from FOW) its a great song. it makes me so happy! hehehe. awe. well its so hard to explain it could mean so many different things to so many different people. Good Shit.
this is such a great song... sounds like the band just decided to have fun with it - they're a lot more talented than ppl give them credit for... it's very go-with-the-flowish :)
this song is amazing....so upbeat and catchy.....makes even the worst days seem atleast a little better
This song is cool. To me it's just describing how life can suck. But there is always tommorow and a chance for things to be better. So drink up and hope for the best. It's a happy song within a sad one, kinda funny actually.
I absolutely love the lyric "I tried to changed, but I changed my mind" Yeah, I agree with you guys. This song is about how stuff happens, but you just gotta roll with it and play the hand you're dealt.
Brilliant.