Wooden Spoon Number
Embrace the Rebellion: The Wooden Spoon's Silent Revolt
Lyrics
It's hard to be a wooden spoon
Expresses the difficulty of being a wooden spoon, a symbol of mundane and repetitive tasks.
You're either working or entombed
Highlights the limited options for a wooden spoon – either constantly in use or stored away.
In kitchen drawers or on your back
Describes the places a wooden spoon might be found, emphasizing its utility in the kitchen.
Freezing on a metal rack
Implies the harsh conditions the wooden spoon may endure, such as freezing on a metal rack.
It's hard to be a wooden spoon
Reiterates the challenges of being a wooden spoon, with a focus on fragility.
Cos if you snap, it seals your doom
Suggests that breaking or "snapping" as a wooden spoon could lead to negative consequences.
I don't know why you wouldn't snap
Raises a rhetorical question about the reluctance to break or resist despite difficulties.
Scrubbed until you break your back
Describes the intense scrubbing involved, indicating hard labor and persistence.
It's hard
Emphasizes the hardship through repetition, possibly echoing the monotony of a wooden spoon's existence.
It's hard
-It's hard
-You stir the shit for years and years
Metaphorically portrays stirring undesirable situations or tasks over an extended period.
Observing with unwilling ears
Expresses the unwillingness of the wooden spoon to hear or engage with the negativity it stirs.
The lives you've enriched without thanks
Acknowledges the impact the wooden spoon has had on others' lives, often without gratitude.
Not like they haven't had the chance
Describes the ingratitude of those benefiting from the wooden spoon's efforts.
The fact is they're ungrateful fucks
-Who don't give you a second look
-Just stir and scrub, then back entombed
Reflects on the cyclical nature of the wooden spoon's existence, returning to obscurity.
It's hard to be a wooden spoon
Reiterates the challenges of being a wooden spoon, possibly hinting at resentment.
It's hard
Reemphasizes the difficulty through repetition, possibly signaling frustration.
It's hard
-It's hard
-One day, you'll make them pay their dues
Foretells a day of reckoning for those who have taken the wooden spoon for granted.
And cure all of your wooden blues
Anticipates relief from the hardships faced, referred to as "wooden blues."
Yeah as they're stirring, unbeknownst
Describes a vengeful act where the wooden spoon retaliates against its users.
You'll launch yourself into their throats
-And as the gullets tighten still
Portrays a darkly humorous scene of the wooden spoon witnessing the consequences of its revenge.
You'll see the eyes of those you kill
-You laugh a little wooden laugh
Illustrates the satisfaction or ironic amusement of the wooden spoon in its revenge.
They gag a meaty little gag
Describes the physical reactions of those affected by the wooden spoon's revenge.
Flailing and gurgling until
Details the aftermath of the revenge, including the impact on the food being prepared.
They go all purple, stiff and still
-The rice'll all be overdone
Depicts the chaos caused by the wooden spoon's revenge and the satisfaction derived from it.
The sauce all acrid, burnt and glum
-You'll revel in their timely doom
-It's good to be a wooden spoon
Concludes with a statement suggesting that, contrary to the difficulties, being a wooden spoon can be fulfilling when seeking revenge.
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