"drag him out the window
dragging out your dead"
Significar expulsar algo que te esta invadiendo especificamente a ti, algo que te aturde
"snakes and ladders
flip the lid"
Serpientes y escaleras seria el juego de la vida: lo que te hace bajar y subir de donde estas y lo que alborota todo ("flip the lid")
"out pops the cracker
smacks you in the head
knifes you in the neck
kicks you in the teeth
steel toe caps
takes all your credit cards
step up get the gunge"
Es una lista de acciones que afectan de forma negativa a la victima, realizadas por alguien enfurecido
"get the eggs
get the flan in the face
the flan in the face
the flan in the face
dance you fucker dance you fucker
don?t you dare
don?t you dare
don?t you flan in the face"
Arrojar huevos y pasteles a la cara es un modo comun de humillacion, al mismo tiempo que bailar: es un modo de bufoneria medieval... la ultima parte se refiere a la auto humillacion, que no tiene el mismo efecto comica en el bromista
"take it with the love its given
take it with a pinch of salt
take it to the taxman"
Es en su sentido mas economico, que lo que damos aunque sea poco cuesta mucho
"let me back let me back
i promise to be good
don?t look in the mirror
at the face you don?t recognize
help me call the doctor
put me inside"
Se refiere a lo diferentes que nos hace la dependencia hacia otros (don?t look in the mirror at the face you don?t recognize) y a como nos resignamos a ella
"i keep the wolf from the door
but he calls me up
calls me on the phone
tells me all the ways that he?s gonna mess me up
steal all my children
if i don?t pay the ransom
but i?ll never see him again
if i squeal to the cops"
Se refiere a la constante presion de la actualidad: aquella que no nos deja en paz, que es cosntante y afecta a los que esta alrededor nuestro para despues afectarnos a nosotros
"walking like a giant crane"
Las grullas caminan de forma torpe en el mundo
"with my x ray eyes i strip you naked
in a tight little world and are you on the list?"
Se refiere a la poca privacidad en el mundo (como Internet) con eso del avance de la tecnologia
"stepford wives who are we to complain?"
Stepford Wives es una novela de 1972 (luego hecha en pelicula en 1975) sobre una ciudad llamada Stepford donde las esposas son perfectas debido a que sus esposos las asesinaron y las sustituyeron con robots, el libro y la pelicula son vistos como ejemplo del estereotipo del Americnao comun, de ahi la linea "¿quien somos para quejarnos?". Un remake de la pelicula con Nicole Kidman salio en 2004
"investments and dealers investments and dealers
cold wives and mistresses.
cold wives and sunday papers"
De nuevo se toca el tema de la economia como modo de presion social, en Reino Unido los diarios del domingo vienen con mas seccion de clasificados que el resto de las ediciones semanales
"city boys in 1st class
don?t know we?re born
just know someone else is gonna come and clean it up"
Aqui se toca el tema de las clases sociales y de forma indirecta la economia de nuevo
drag him out your window dragging out the dead singing i miss you snakes and ladders flip the lid out pops the cracker smacks you in the head knifes you in the neck kicks you in the teeth steel toe caps takes all your credit cards get up get the gunge get the eggs get the flan in the face the flan in the face the flan in the face dance you fucker dance you fucker don't you dare don't you dare don't you flan in the face take it with the love its given take it with a pinch of salt take it to the taxman let me back let me back i promise to be good don't look in the mirror at the face you don't recognize help me, call the doctor, put me inside put me inside put me inside put me inside put me inside i keep the wolf from the door but he calls me up calls me on the phone tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up steal all my children if i don't pay the ransom and i'll never see them again if i squeal to the cops. . . . walking like giant cranes and with my x-ray eyes i strip you naked in a tight little world and are you on the list? stepford wives who are we to complain? investments and dealers investments and dealers cold wives and mistresses cold wives and sunday papers city boys in first class don't know we're born little someone else is gonna come and clean it up born and raised for the job someone always does i wish you'd get up get over get up, get over and turn your tape off i keep the wolf from the door but he calls me up calls me on the phone tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up steal all my children if i don't pay the ransom and i'll never see them again if i squeal to the cops so i just go ooh ooh ooh ooh