The Bloody Bucket
Heartbreak's Dance: A Lonesome Lubbock Evening with Grey DeLisle
Lyrics
The bloody bucket's empty
The container for blood or metaphorically a state of emotional turmoil is now devoid of contents.
Just a barmaid, me and you
Describes the setting: a barmaid and two individuals, possibly the narrator and someone else.
And I know I don't belong here but there's nothing left to do
Feeling out of place but resigned to the circumstance due to no alternatives.
On a lonesome Lubbock evening, so I conjured up a plan
On a solitary evening in Lubbock, devising a plan.
To break my heart just one more time with one more lowdown, dirty man
Intending to hurt oneself emotionally by involving with another untrustworthy person.
If your watered down tequila's fueled a thirst for stronger stuff
If the diluted tequila makes one desire something stronger, the narrator's gaze might suffice.
Then this dark and hungry look here in my eyes might be enough
Implying a willingness to play a role in fulfilling someone's desires.
To complete the final chapter in a damned dog-eared plan
Finalizing a recurring plan to emotionally hurt someone with a seductive woman.
To break your heart just one more time with one more scarlet woman
Similar to line 5, intending to break another's heart emotionally.
Break my heart
Expressing a desire for emotional pain.
The sweetest, ripest part
Describing the most vulnerable part of oneself to be broken.
Break my heart
Reiteration of the desire for emotional pain.
Fever stops where trouble starts
Implying that trouble begins where passion ends.
If you're looking for a fire darlin' let me be the spark
Offering oneself as the catalyst for trouble.
You look like a good way to break my heart
Expressing a perception that the other person might cause emotional harm.
I'm the girl with eyes the color of your bruised and broken soul
Describing the narrator's eyes in relation to the other person's troubled state.
You can hide your drunken breath behind my tresses black as coal
Offering a facade behind which someone can hide their issues.
I can dream about tomorrow waking up with you at dawn
Hopeful dreaming despite acknowledging the transient nature of the encounter.
Even though we both know that by tomorrow you'll be gone
Realization of the impermanence of the connection despite hopes otherwise.
As the two-step spins us faster my mind's spinning even more
Sensory overload and disorientation due to the fast-paced dance and emotional turmoil.
Past a hundred phantom faces of the ones who came before
Seeing numerous reminders of past failed relationships or encounters.
On the jukebox Sleepwalk's cryin' 'til you whisper, "I need you"
A song playing that relates to the situation, implying a need or desire.
And I feel my poor heart dyin', breakin' like it needed to
Experiencing the anticipated emotional pain, suggesting a necessary outcome.
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