Boxes and Boxes
Life's Final Euchre: Conversations with the Departed
Lyrics
I sleep in a beige walled room
The narrator sleeps in a room with beige walls.
With one token piece of art
There is only one piece of art in the room, hung from a screw, and it is recycled from a car.
Hanging from a screw
Describes the simplicity and perhaps makeshift nature of the artwork's installation.
Recycled from a car
Suggests a creative repurposing of materials for the artwork, emphasizing a resourceful or unconventional approach.
With boxes and boxes all around me
The room is filled with boxes, creating a feeling of confinement or clutter.
I feel like I'm in a morgue
The abundance of boxes makes the narrator feel like they are in a morgue, evoking a sense of death or lifelessness.
Just playing euchre with dead guys
The narrator imagines playing euchre, a card game, with deceased individuals in the room.
Complaining about being a corpse
The dead individuals complain about being corpses, highlighting the challenges or difficulties of death.
Oh, but no one ever told them
No one warned the deceased individuals about the hardships of death.
That death would be this hard
The narrator feels the need to inform the deceased about the difficulties of death.
So I gotta break the news
The narrator metaphorically claims to sleep with the hangman, suggesting a connection to death or mortality.
I sleep with the hangman now
The hangman's walls are adorned with art, perhaps symbolizing a desire to distract from the morbid nature of his work.
His walls are full of art
The hangman's work involves executions in the hanging yard.
Attempting to distract him from
Art is used as a distraction for the hangman from his grim duties.
His work in the hanging yard
Indicates the hangman's attempt to find solace or diversion from his challenging job.
But at night I slip down to the cemetery
The narrator secretly visits the cemetery at night to spend time with those who were hanged.
So I can hang with the hangers, correct
The narrator corrects or clarifies the purpose of their visits to the cemetery.
But they can barely keep their heads up
The hanged individuals struggle to keep their heads up, symbolizing the physical difficulty of their deaths.
On account of their broken necks
Describes the cause of difficulty as broken necks, further emphasizing the challenges of death.
Oh, but no one ever told them
Similar to line 9, no one warned the hanged individuals about the hardships of death.
That death would be this hard
Reiterates the idea that death is unexpectedly difficult for those who experience it.
So I gotta tie the noose
The narrator feels the need to take on the responsibility of delivering the difficult news, symbolized by tying the noose.
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