Handsome Suit
A Tapestry of Life: Unraveling the Meaning in Max García Conover's 'Handsome Suit'
Lyrics
Half puerto rican in a handsome suit
Half Puerto Rican individual dressed in a stylish suit.
Skinny little nothing in the buffalo news
A slender person featured in a news article in Buffalo.
Half light ticking on the falling snow
Describing the ambient light during snowfall.
Accidental baby and she moved back home
A child born unintentionally, and the mother moved back home.
You're crying in the kitchen and you don't know why
Expressing confusion and emotional distress in the kitchen.
Drunk granddaddy in a santa tie
An intoxicated grandfather wearing a Santa tie.
Broke wood stove in the living room
A dysfunctional wood stove in the living room.
Half puerto rican in a handsome suit
Reiteration of being half Puerto Rican in a stylish suit.
Boy you're gonna wake to the pain everyone's in
A warning or realization of the pain everyone experiences.
And what do you do then
Questioning the appropriate response to the aforementioned pain.
Crazy lady shoveling the whole damn road
A description of an eccentric lady clearing the entire road of snow.
Three gold deer in the hip high snow
Imagery of three gold deer in deep snow.
Radiator hissing and you cover his feet
The sound of a radiator hissing while covering someone's feet.
Runaway jury on TNT
A reference to a TV show featuring a runaway jury on TNT.
She was always saying aw for crying out loud
A woman expressing frustration or disbelief.
Once you start thinking that you're lost you're found
Reflecting on the idea that when one thinks they are lost, they are actually found.
Once you start thinking that you're good you're not
Contrasting the misconception of being good when one thinks they are not.
We never got happy but we laughed a lot
Highlighting a lack of sustained happiness but abundant laughter.
Boy you're gonna wake to the pain everyone's in
Reiteration of the warning about waking up to universal pain.
And what do you do then
Pondering the appropriate course of action in response to the pain.
Clear cut trees in the cats eye air
Describing deforested trees in the crisp air.
Grabby motherfucker in the boss's chair
Agreessive individual occupying a superior's position.
You don't want to be another killing kind
An aversion to becoming someone who causes harm.
Staring out the window in a killing time
Staring out the window during idle, potentially harmful moments.
You don't want to be another killing kind
Repetition of the aversion to becoming a harmful person.
Staring out the window in a killing time
Continuation of the image of staring out the window during idle, potentially harmful moments.
Boy you're gonna wake to the pain you're in
Reiterating the warning about waking up to personal pain.
Boy you're gonna wonder what do you do then
Posing a question about how to respond to the impending pain.
There's a broke wood stove in the living room
Highlighting the dysfunctional wood stove in the living room again.
And a half puerto rican in a handsome suit
Final reiteration of being half Puerto Rican in a stylish suit.
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