Manners
Manners Unveiled: A Poetic Feast of Desire and Rebellion
Lyrics
Sit up straight good
Sit up straight, behave well
Sit up straight good
Reiteration of the need to sit up straight and behave
Sitting at the table
Seated at a table
Playing with my stack of peas
Engaged in playing with a stack of peas
Waiting for the plastic forks
Waiting for plastic forks
To melt beneath the cupboard
Anticipating the melting of plastic forks beneath the cupboard
"Little brother, pass the butter"
Requesting the little brother to pass the butter
"Don't play with your meat"
Advising not to play with one's meat
"You're a little glutton made of mutton"
Describing someone as a glutton made of mutton
"Playing with your seeds"
Playing with seeds, possibly metaphorical
We paint a perfect picture
Creating an idealized image for the world to see
For the whole wild world to see
Depicting a perfect scene with Tropicana and a summer breeze
A little tropicana
Reference to a perfect Tropicana
With a perfect summer breeze
Emphasizing a flawless summer breeze
Rigmarole my darling
Using the term "rigmarole" to describe someone as a piece of poetry
She's a piece of poetry
Describing a person as a piece of poetry
I want her to be mine
Expressing a desire for the person to be owned
forever mine to be
Expressing a wish for ownership forever
Let em roll let em bleed
Encouraging things to roll and bleed
let em run to the sea
Encouraging things to run to the sea
Let em burn into the fire
Encouraging things to burn in the fire
Let it feed the world's desire
Allowing the fire to feed the world's desire
I want you to relieve me
Expressing a desire for relief from unattainable things
of the things i cannot be
Expressing the desire to be relieved of one's limitations
You want a little dog
Desiring a small, manageable problem (represented by a little dog)
to commit your entropy
Referring to the commitment of one's entropy to the small problem
Rigmarole my darling
Reiteration of someone as a piece of poetry
She's a piece of poetry
Repeating the description of a person as a piece of poetry
I want her to be mine
Reiterating the desire for ownership of the person
forever mine to be
Reiterating the wish for eternal ownership
Let em roll let em bleed
Encouraging things to roll and bleed (repeated)
let em run to the sea
Encouraging things to run to the sea (repeated)
Let em burn into the fire
Encouraging things to burn in the fire (repeated)
Let it feed the world's desire
Allowing the fire to feed the world's desire (repeated)
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