All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve – Street Spirit has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end.
Hunting Bears is a complex song. A bear, as you know is another term for a chubby chaser. The guitar line is actually the sound of a fat man’s thighs rubbing together as he approaches another lardy male for a night of sexual deviance.
Mephostopheles is the name of a male gigolo I knew. When he’s reaching up to grab me, I suppose it’s an erotic bit of poetry.
I am all the days that you choose to ignore.
There’s a pervading sense of loneliness I’ve had since the day I was born. Maybe a lot of other people feel the same way, but I’m not about to run up and down the street asking everybody if they’re as lonely as I am. I’d probably get locked up.
I can’t wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.
Whenever I meet a beauty, I escape or hide in the corner.
You are my centre when I spin away.
Open your mouth wide A universal sigh.
I’m such a tease and you’re such a flirt Routines and schedules A drug that’ll kill you.
She looks like the real thing, She tastes like the real thing, My fake plastic love. But I can’t help the feeling, I could blow through the ceiling If I just turned and ran.
You do it to yourself, you do, And that’s what really hurts, Is you do it to yourself, just you, You and no-one else, You do it to yourself.
When I go forwards, you go backwards And somewhere we will meet.
I’ll take a quiet life And a handshake of carbon monoxide And no alarms and no surprises.
The head of state Has called for me by name But I don’t have time for him It’s gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change.
It’s the devil’s way now There is no way out You can scream and you can shout It is too late now.
And I’m sorry for us The dinosaurs roam the earth The sky turns green.
I have no idea what I am talking about I’m trapped in this body and can’t get out.
How come I end up where I started? How come I end up where I went wrong? You used to be alright What happened?
You cannot kickstart a dead horse.