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Old 06-29-2022, 10:01 PM   #31
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here's an inside look at billy post - 98

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Old 06-29-2022, 10:04 PM   #32
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sally
She wants clean sheets and fresh flowers.

 
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Old 06-29-2022, 10:05 PM   #33
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BC is JP

 
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Old 06-29-2022, 10:06 PM   #34
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Oops, Annie.

 
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Old 06-29-2022, 10:06 PM   #35
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She wants clean sheets and fresh flowers.
he wants to replace his real legs with metal legs

 
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Old 06-29-2022, 10:06 PM   #36
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Old 06-29-2022, 10:27 PM   #37
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conspiracy theory: billy played all his dad's parts
must spread rep +++++

 
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Old 06-29-2022, 10:27 PM   #38
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the shards of broken glass
sing the strains of a sad old tune


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Old 06-30-2022, 10:21 AM   #39
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This and set the ray to jerry should have made the MCIS cut. Jerry replacing Beautiful, Last Song replacing Take Me Down (I like Take Me Down but it's the only James song)

 
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Old 06-30-2022, 10:24 AM   #40
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oh shit so i forgot my point - is "metal fingers clutching dirty sheets" possibly related to "sally's in the stirrups claiming her destiny"
See, in my theory, this was the hooks they have on hospital beds that come up and hook into the sheets at the bottom to hold them in place

Which I'm realizing I may have made up because I cannot find any images of what I'm describing

I'm picturing like an older version of these things except 1) they're hooks and 2) they come up from under the mattress to hook/clip onto the top sheet and not just the bottom one



Fuck my theory I guess. I was willing to work with it when it was about his mom dying but was written several months before she died, but this kills it

 
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Old 06-30-2022, 10:25 AM   #41
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I may go ahead and kms with this song blasting on repeat and my note will make it clear I think the song is about suicide, and am kms because my theory proved stupid

 
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Old 06-30-2022, 02:43 PM   #42
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I always understood this verse as a metaphor for skyscrapers against skies on cloudy days.

 
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Old 06-30-2022, 03:09 PM   #43
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Imagine writing a weird lyric and thinking it’s nestled safe within the confines of the song and then some asshole uses it as a thread title 27 years later.

 
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Old 06-30-2022, 03:15 PM   #44
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Imagine writing a weird lyric and thinking it’s nestled safe within the confines of the song and then some asshole uses it as a thread title 27 years later.
Nah this is the horseshit Brian loves to run and bring to his big boss willie

“Look boss! They’re still dissecting single line from a single verse of a single song that u wrote called the last song about how you were gonna kys b/c everyone is too Guns N’ Roses to appreciate your genius about how Mozart was a genius”
“Brian”
“Yes boss”
“Im hungry—another”
“More fries?”
“—no, another dog! Brian!
“Yes”
“Grab me another dog?”

 
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Old 06-30-2022, 04:42 PM   #45
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Haha good point


DOG

BILLY WANT DOG

 
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Old 06-30-2022, 04:43 PM   #46
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Fan: you know you’re kind of a dick tbh

Billy: I gotta go eat dogs over here now bye

 
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Old 06-30-2022, 05:28 PM   #47
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See, in my theory, this was the hooks they have on hospital beds that come up and hook into the sheets at the bottom to hold them in place

Which I'm realizing I may have made up because I cannot find any images of what I'm describing

I'm picturing like an older version of these things except 1) they're hooks and 2) they come up from under the mattress to hook/clip onto the top sheet and not just the bottom one



Fuck my theory I guess. I was willing to work with it when it was about his mom dying but was written several months before she died, but this kills it
no you might be onto something - both are obviously about hospital-type beds

 
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Old 06-30-2022, 05:34 PM   #48
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his mother didn't die until like a year and a half later but she had cancer? idk it feels weird speculating about stuff like that.

obviously the stumbeline lyric is about abortion

 
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Old 06-30-2022, 07:30 PM   #49
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his mother didn't die until like a year and a half later but she had cancer? idk it feels weird speculating about stuff like that.

obviously the stumbeline lyric is about abortion

 
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Old 07-01-2022, 05:38 PM   #50
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lol come on man let a guy post

 
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Old 07-01-2022, 06:32 PM   #51
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the sturrip line is the play on the double meaning. I wouldn't say it's specifically about one or the either.

 
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Old 07-01-2022, 06:50 PM   #52
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i see what you're saying but no

 
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Old 07-01-2022, 06:56 PM   #53
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consider the rest of the lyrics of the song

none of them are allusions

they're all very real people and very real places and very real images

 
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Old 07-02-2022, 04:17 AM   #54
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lol come on man let a guy post
Nah u can post, u can post, it was me going “woah” at your interpetato since i never considered abortion or if i did i forgot it

Same for the skyscrapers

It’s like woah u guys are fucken jr scientists in here, twistin my mellon man

 
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Old 07-02-2022, 11:19 PM   #55
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I feel like you're all just fucking with me

metal fingers, dirty sheets

obviously, this is about little Billy Jr. trying to sleep, hiding in bed from angry dad making violent noises around the house, probably come home wasted after some gig

 
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Old 07-03-2022, 12:37 PM   #56
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why he got metal fingers then

im going to go ahead and admit it right here right now that the skyscraper thing proposed by our very own brothhi4ly is 100% the correct interpretation, case closed

 
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Old 07-03-2022, 08:58 PM   #57
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cause he's a guitarist with strong hands

 
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Old 07-03-2022, 10:13 PM   #58
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metal fingers = wedding ring = sworn devotion to a particular individual
dirty sheets = infidelity

Note: I do not subscribe to this interpretation, but it’s definitely the best one in the thread.

 
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Old 07-03-2022, 10:22 PM   #59
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The dad angle is objectively unsupported by the lyrics.

 
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Old 07-03-2022, 10:29 PM   #60
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Also, Billy didn’t consciously imbed hidden meanings in lyrics during the writing process. He didn’t think about them at all beyond their poetic interest or effectiveness. I know because I was there.

 
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