Quote of the day: "She was living on the edge of a knife. His head was filled with restless ghosts. It's so easy to love a bringer of destruction. She said, "Darling I love you madly"." - The Devil in Stitches
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06/23/2012 at 09:19
For this song, I just took it literally; the song is about a man who fell in love with a disturbed girl who killed a delivery guy. He's saying the "cops can never prove complicity," so he is safe from the law. The "crazy old man" who started the chain reaction was a witness to the murder.
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11/27/2008 at 21:35
I heard someone equate the "little gun" to a syringe, so the "here comes oblivion" means the high is coming.
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08/30/2006 at 00:37
I think that the song is about a love affair with a drug addiction.
The chorus with the line "I never loved you, how did you find me?" Every addict goes through cycles of love and hate; they can rationalize their beliefs that they won't ever do it again and maybe, just maybe, they never really did it to begin with. "The cops will never prove complicity" Like you have no control over your own actions. |
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12/01/2005 at 21:50
I agree this song is about the Charles Manson Tate/Labianca murders. At Spahn ranch (Manson's lair) they found a door with 'helter skelter' and other things written on it. Also on this door (the picture of it can be seen in Vincent Bugliosi's book "HELTER SKELTER) is - 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 then under it - all good children , then under this in parenthesis - go to heaven.
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11/17/2005 at 02:50
I guess it's about drug addiction; it seems to me that it's a depressant as he says "I've got a little gun here comes oblivion". As a matter of fact, anasthesias put you to sleep right? The drug addiction is obviously not appreciated in "I never loved you, how did you find me?"
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07/11/2004 at 12:08
I think the song is equating drug addiction with an intimate relationship. I've always thought of the line opening line, "everybody's talking about the girl who went and killed the delivery man" as referring to the drug dealer who is killed by his own product.
"I remember your face that August night when we lied about the beautiful time to come" - the junkie talking about his empty dreams of getting high and having new experiences, like disillusioned lovers planning a non-existent future. "I've been hanging out here for 11 long years like church mouse wondering where the cat has gone" - I think this line is talking about the person's inability to move on successfully because of their addiction, so they remain in the same place, unable to advance in life. |
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07/11/2004 at 12:08
This song might be about comparing love to drug addiction, but can also be about Charles Manson and the Sharon Tate murders. As a delivery man was killed purely because he arrived at Tate's house to deliver a package, referring both to the lines "everybody is talking bout the girl who went and killed the delivery man" and also possibly "the crazy old man who came much too late and spawned a chain reaction." The song also quotes lines from a Beatles song, from the same album that Manson wrote lyrics of in blood on the walls of the house. The fact that "All good children go to heaven" may also be a reference to the child that the pregnant Tate was carrying at the time of her death. And the fact that the spectator of the song has been missing the character for eleven years may refer to the incarceration of Manson family members. Having said all that, I personally think it is simply Brett being typically cryptic in telling a quirky love story.
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