thread for resolving longstanding lyrical questions

this one has been a mystery to me for years, it's from the New Riders of the Purple Sage's "Lonesome L.A. Cowboy":

[i]I know Rick & Rita & Martin Mull are over at the Troubadour
we'll get it on with the Joy of Cooking while the crowd cries out for more
around six o'clock this morning, I'll be getting kinda slow
when all the shows are over, honey, tell me, where do you think I go?]/i]

aww man that bracket I fucked up, sorry, post looks all ugly now. what does that last line mean, anyway?

thread for unresolved opening bbcode errors

opening post bbcode errors I have made

years from now steven tyler will lie awake in the dark hours at the beginning of the day thinking to himself that if he had only managed to close that bracket properly he would have learned that terrible secret, and so brought himself some measure of peace. instead he will go to his grave not knowing the meaning of the new riders of the purple sage's 'lonesome l.a. cowboy', always unfulfilled, always searching, never at rest.

Maybe it's referring to her "window ledge" from the chorus..

no idea about this, sorry. but continuing - what the fuck does damo suzuki sing about anyways?

I never heard that song before. He's on the window ledge from midnight til dawn, but he's wondering where he goes after that. I think he is asking himself, because he doesn't know.

And the girl who has a window ledge is cocaine. The ledge is also cocaine. So is his new song. And he should be working on his craft, but he's glamming it up in the bars instead with other ex-faux-rustic types because everything has changed including the drugs.

xp "Vitamin C" is about Edda Mussolini and tomato sauce

OK, so Halloween fell on a weekend - this is confirmed in that Geto Boys are 'robbing little kids for their (trick of treat) bags.' Then there is a terrible fracas of some sort, and then Bushwick confesses at the end that he feels "just like a fiend" because "it wasn't even CLOSE to Halloween," emphasizing the word 'close.' Huh? Was it or wasn't it? I know his mind i splaying tricks on him, but...the kids? The bags? The trick or treating? The masks?

he was just robbin random people in a mall under the age of 10 on a regular day of the year

This year Halloween fell on a weekend
Me and Geto Boys are trick-or-treatin
Robbin little kids for bags
Till an old man got behind our ***
So we speeded up the pace
Took a look back, and he was right before our face
He'd be in for a squabble no doubt
So I swung and hit the ***** in his mouth
He was goin down, we figured
But this was no ordinary *****
He stood about six or seven feet
Now, that's the ***** I'd be seein in my sleep
So we triple-teamed on him
Droppin them **********in be 's on him
The more I swung the more blood flew
Then he disappeared and my boys disappeared, too
Then I felt just like a fiend
It wasn't even close to Halloween
It was dark as **** on the streets
My hands were all bloody, from punchin on the concrete
God damn, homie
My mind is playin tricks on me

(copied from some website)

Seems quite straightforward (lol) to me. He thought he was robbing kids of their treats on Halloween, but it turned out it wasn't even close to Halloween, he did not rob kids, he actually went insane.

The Geto Boys robbing with him was an illusion too

the difference between 6 and 7 feet in height is pretty identifiable ime

You are probably taller than Bushwick Bill.

so are the kids he was robbin

This verse in the video ends with Bushwick randomly punching the ground until his knuckles are bloody and then getting dragged away in an ambulance. I'd say the insane diagnosis is OTM.