Curse Of The Cockroach
Cockroach's Brew: Battling Heartbreak in a Barstool Symphony
Lyrics
The Curse of the Cockroach
The speaker introduces the theme of the song, referring to a curse involving a cockroach.
Sitting on this barstool acting like the poet
The speaker portrays themselves as a poet on a barstool, concealing emotional pain.
Still I've got a broken heart but I ain't gonna show it
Despite a broken heart, the speaker is determined not to show their emotional distress.
I know I'd be alright I'd never shed another tear
The speaker believes they could be fine if they could prevent a cockroach from contaminating their beer.
If I could only stop this cockroach from swimming in my beer
The presence of a cockroach in the beer is a metaphor for an unwanted disturbance causing emotional turmoil.
He's doing the backstroke
The cockroach is depicted engaging in various activities, symbolizing disruptions and annoyances in the speaker's life.
He's doing the crawl
-He's ordering pizza
-He's shouting last call
-He's spending my paycheck
-I'm feeling slighted
-He's throwing the world's biggest beer mug party
-And I ain't invited
-Now you can have your sexy women in their overpriced perfume
The speaker is willing to give up various things, including love and cherished possessions, to eliminate the cockroach from their life.
You can have the love I cherished
-You can lock it in a tomb
-You can have my songs my sing alongs my words and my good cheer
-If you'd only stop this cockroach from swimming in my beer
-He's doing the backstroke
Reiteration of the cockroach's disruptive actions, emphasizing the speaker's exclusion from a significant event (beer mug party).
He's doing the crawl
-He's ordering pizza
-He's shouting last call
-He's spending my paycheck
-And I'm feeling slighted
-He's throwing the world's biggest beer mug party
-And I ain't invited
-Now they say time goes on forever
Reflection on the eternal nature of time and the inevitability of both good and bad things, but the persistence of the cockroach-related curse.
Ah but all good things must end
-I said what about the bad things and the things I can't defend
-You could blow the world to pieces
-You could nuke it for a year
-Still this cursed cockroach would be swimming in my beer
-He's doing the backstroke
Continuation of the cockroach's disruptive behaviors, reinforcing the theme of exclusion and frustration.
He's doing the crawl
-He's ordering pizza
-He's shouting last call
-He's spending my paycheck
-And I'm feeling slighted
-He's throwing the world's biggest beer mug party
-And I ain't invited
-He's doing the backstroke
Final emphasis on the cockroach's actions, including a call for alcohol, the speaker's paycheck being spent, and ongoing feelings of being slighted.
He's doing the crawl
-He's ordering pizza
-He's shouting last call for alcohol
-With my paycheck
-And I'm feeling slighted
-He's throwing the world's biggest beer mug party
-And I ain't invited
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