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Post by torethatbridgeout on Jan 19, 2004 17:37:52 GMT -5
"Well you look fantastic
and you gassed the casket
at least the thing still runs"
I love the first two lines and I'm always a little let down by the third. It's not nearly as funny or sassy as the first two; it's kind of a fuddy-duddy thing to say in a way; and it seems to be wasting a line explaining that by casket he meant car.
I'm not sure what else he could have done with the third line, but it would be more like Paul to leave you scratching your head about casket while he moves on to something in else in line 3.
Damn, now it's making me mad. I'm gonna take my copy of "14 Songs" back to the store where I bought it from.
Casket ... maybe he got some of his car lingo from his dad the car salesman.
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Post by §winginparty™ on Jan 19, 2004 18:45:26 GMT -5
Well I thought it waz...
Well you look fantastic
in your gassed up casket.....
at least the thing still runs...
Lets take a poll...
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Post by ClamsCasino on Jan 19, 2004 23:47:12 GMT -5
It's definitely "gassed up casket."
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Post by zook on Jan 20, 2004 10:08:38 GMT -5
I hear that as well.
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Post by prozach on Jan 20, 2004 10:11:20 GMT -5
"...and you passed some gas, kid"
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Post by GtrPlyr on Jan 20, 2004 10:49:12 GMT -5
I just listened to the song, and it sounds like "in your gassed up casket" to me.
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Post by torethatbridgeout on Jan 20, 2004 11:10:49 GMT -5
allright, I was gonna be charitable and say he might sing it different ways in different verses, but I see popular opinion is against me. It doesn't make much difference, though to me "gassed-up casket" is harder to figure out and then you need the "thing still runs" line more so you know it's a car.
maybe we're flying a little too close to the sun here with our PW magnifying glasses anyway
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Post by butzodaddy on Jan 20, 2004 19:31:18 GMT -5
Doh, I always heard "custom casket". "Gassed" up makes more sense lyrically I guess.
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Post by §winginparty™ on Jan 20, 2004 21:37:11 GMT -5
TTBO...
No Poll?
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Post by Kathy on Jan 20, 2004 21:58:11 GMT -5
in a semi-related (misheard lyrics) comment: One of my all time goofiest ones was XTC's "Earn Enough For Us". I sang: I can't take humiliation The purple comments on the bus No I don't know what it means either but that's what I heard - and sang. Loudly. In the car with someone else who was like..."WHAT did you just sing???" and almost ran us off the road laughing so hard. It turns out the correct lyric is: I can take humiliation And hurtful comments from the boss Let it be known that said driver who was so amused, for many years happily sang "A Midsummer's Day" for Men at Work's "It's A Mistake". He also sang "William Edward's Nothing" as opposed to "William, It Was Really Nothing". (The Smiths). And 20 years on down the road we are still arguing about REM's "Talk ABout The Passion": Combien du temps (my bad french spelling) vs. Call me in to talk. Mats-wise, I always sang "Thinking to yourself he's a moron" (aka "Thinking to yourself it needs more rum" ). I like mine better  k. |
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Post by zook on Jan 21, 2004 9:51:25 GMT -5
Kathy, until just now I thought it was moron too. Too late to change it now - it's ingrained in my brain now. I'll have to call Paul and have him change to moron too.
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Post by Placemat on Jan 21, 2004 10:09:46 GMT -5
in a semi-related (misheard lyrics) comment: Mats-wise, I always sang "Thinking to yourself he's a moron" (aka "Thinking to yourself it needs more rum" ). I like mine better Yeah, for me it's always been "moron", & I prefer it over "more rum". But, it looks like were the morons. |
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Post by torethatbridgeout on Jan 22, 2004 3:33:14 GMT -5
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Post by Wolfdog on Jan 22, 2004 8:44:52 GMT -5
looks like I gotta stop singing 'gangster casket' now. I was never sure what that was anyways.
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Post by §winginparty™ on Jan 22, 2004 9:15:11 GMT -5
No poll yet but wanna buy a casket? Searched the web for lyrics "gassed the casket". Results 1 - 7 of 7. Search took 0.24 seconds. Yeah... I had already done that... They are all wrong.... SP |
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Post by gravy on Jan 22, 2004 11:21:47 GMT -5
" well you look fantastic
in your gassed up casket
at least the thing still runs,
This 9 to 5 Bullshit,
don't let forget ,
the suicide you're on"
That's what i've been singing for 10 years.
When I saw him on this tour I was right in front of his stage monitors. I could almost read his lips!
I swore this is what he said.
K
I thought it was Moron until I found out what was in a Singapore sling!!
Casket - suicde! made sense to me.
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Post by elgoodo on Jan 22, 2004 13:43:38 GMT -5
I don't think that TTBO quite understands how these lyric pages (aka - spam factories) actually work...
he probably believes that all guitar tabs on the net are accurate, as well...
and gravy,
could you limit your signature quotes at the bottom of your posts to one at a time?...
less is more, my friend...
less is more...
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Post by torethatbridgeout on Jan 22, 2004 14:26:09 GMT -5
I don't think that TTBO quite understands how these lyric pages (aka - spam factories) actually work... he probably believes that all guitar tabs on the net are accurate, as well... ok, good guy, learn me I have no opinion on net tab accuracy, but I do like Kucinich re: spam, I say "Bring it on." I'll take those hits for you if you're afraid of lyrics sites. By the way, google "gassed up casket" and you get a single reference on the skyway site. |
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Post by gravy on Jan 22, 2004 14:26:47 GMT -5
yeah man,
i got a little quote happy! friends don't let friends over reference.
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Post by ClamsCasino on Jan 22, 2004 15:56:48 GMT -5
Instead of believing lyrics pages that only copy each other's mistakes, just stop and think about the lyrics for more than a few seconds. "Gassed the casket" doesn't make any sense. "Gassed up casket" does, particularly when heard in context. It's all pretty obvious, isn't it? "Gassed up casket...at least the thing still runs...9 to 5 bullshit...round the corner, give it some gas..." = car. The casket reference means that the "9 to 5 bullshit" is suicide ("suicide [side] you're on"). Then later, when the world class fad hits the bigtime the "gassed up casket" becomes a plane: "At least the thing still flies."
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