Bottle Baby
Unraveling the Heinous Laws of Endless Love in Augie March's 'Bottle Baby'
Lyrics
Your issue may walk among fine moral spires
Your problem may exist in a lofty moral environment
But if they went up somebody else built them
If those spires exist, someone else constructed them
Your store is a small one, your goods have no buyers
Your business is small, and there are no buyers for your goods
Your parents are raising your children
Your parents are taking care of your children
O, I could have told you, the vices won't hold you
I could have warned you that indulging in vices won't provide comfort
Warm in a coil where you lay
You find warmth in a coil where you lie
But high up behind you, seized by the temple
High above you, the temple commands obedience
And bid you obey and obey
You are urged to obey and obey
A heinous, heinous law
Referring to a cruel and unjust law
Of an endless, endless love, that governs your
A love that governs your heart endlessly
Poor heart
Your heart is affected by this oppressive law
In its velvety chambers
Within the luxurious chambers of your heart
Where fellows foul me engage in exchanges
Engaging in exchanges where corrupt individuals target me
Whose ends are to put out your lights
Their goal is to extinguish your inner light
Who know from the inside you won't put up a fight
Knowing that internally you won't resist
To a heinous, heinous law...
Repeating the reference to a cruel and unjust law
Of an endless, endless love, that governs your
Reiterating the endless love governing your heart
Poor heart
Emphasizing the impact of this law on your heart
It's winter in my bedroom, I stir the broken spring,
Describing a wintry atmosphere in the speaker's bedroom
And I have in my head to go crawling
The speaker contemplates crawling or yielding to pressure
When the hounds come around, I go to the bottle
Turning to alcohol when faced with challenges
Like every wet shadow before me
Similar to others who faced difficulties before
Now are you angry at me, 'cause I'm no longer free?
Addressing potential resentment for losing personal freedom
I don't sound it or say it or feel it
The speaker may not express or feel the anger
But out on the street, somebody told me
Being informed on the street that challenges are universal
It happens to everyone
Acknowledging that everyone faces such situations
So I don't blame you, it's my foot in my shoe
The speaker doesn't blame others for the predicament
And I seem to have easily filled it
Easily adapting to the given situation
While the thing in my charge, whether tiny or large
The responsibility, whether small or large, may be unintentionally harming
I fear I may slowly have killed it
Expressing fear of causing harm to the entrusted responsibility
Obeying a heinous, heinous law...
Repeating the reference to a cruel and unjust law
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