Lyrics
Shoes & socks protect soles from rocks
Shoes and socks provide protection for the feet from external elements like rocks.
And thick coats defend your skin & hide you.
Thick coats serve as a defense for the skin and also conceal a person.
What to do when there's holes in you?
When someone has holes within themselves, symbolically indicating emptiness or lacking something.
You're a beanbag with no beans inside you.
Describing a person as a beanbag devoid of its essential contents, feeling empty or incomplete.
Bored, thin, low, on, beans, beans
Repetition emphasizing feelings of boredom, thinness, and low energy, possibly related to lacking vitality or enthusiasm.
He tore his seams on his broken dreams.
Metaphorically portraying someone experiencing disappointment or failure in pursuing their aspirations.
Now he lies around too flat to serve.
Being in a state of being ineffective or unproductive, unable to fulfill one's purpose or function.
He drags his feet. He feels incomplete.
Feeling incomplete, possibly due to unresolved issues or lacking something essential.
And bad dogs grind down his last good nerve.
Suffering from constant stress or annoyance that wears down one's patience or resilience.
He's bored, thin, low, on, beans,
Reiteration of feelings of boredom, thinness, and low energy.
And he would have stayed that way, too,
Implying a sense of being stuck or stagnant without any means to change the situation.
With no way to turn back the tide.
Expressing the inability to reverse or control certain circumstances.
Ostensibly not so bad, but in need of a spark inside.
Appearing okay superficially but lacking internal motivation or inspiration.
But another came along
Introduction of another person entering the life of the individual described.
And though it's difficult to explain,
Describing the challenge of articulating the impact or significance of this person's influence.
She poured herself into him like rain.
Metaphorically describing the deep and nourishing impact of someone's presence on the individual.
For every raindrop, there was a bean.
Associating each positive impact or positive experience with the metaphorical addition of a "bean."
For every stay outside, there was a bean.
Highlighting the correlation between positive experiences and the feeling of being filled or completed.
An electric nest of worker bees
Describing intense emotions or sensations building up inside the person.
Boiling under his skin.
Depicting a state of intense energy or emotions brewing beneath the surface.
They pop like bombs in a Tupperware bowl
Illustrating the sudden and explosive release of emotions or feelings, likened to popping bombs in a confined space.
And are multiplied each by ten.
Emphasizing the multiplication or intensification of these emotions or feelings.
Swelling his quiddity up until
Describing the person's essence or core swelling due to the positive influences experienced.
He feels like his old beanbag self again
Feeling a return to a previous state of being full, content, or complete.
Stuffed
Indicating the person is now filled or complete.
Full
Continuation of the feeling of completeness or satisfaction.
Of
Further emphasizing the state of being filled or content.
Beans
Reiteration of the person's feeling of being filled or complete.
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