Black Molly
Lyrics
Black mollies in the aquarium
Darting back and forth as though an earthquake were certain
And I turned up the heater
And I ripped off my shirt
And I grabbed hold of my stereo
And I threw it out the window
You were in town again
You'd come around again
You were dragging me down again
With you
Siamese fighting fish flashing like sparklers
It started to rain
And the telephone rang a couple of times
I put a bullet through its cold dead brain
And I got out my photographs of you
And I put bullets though all of them too
You were in town again
You'd come around again
You were dragging me down again
With you
Banter
- This is a song about tropical fish. (2014-06-14)
- I've never been to Albany before. So it's a conflict where I tend to prefer the new songs with my band, right, but there's some people who've been waiting a long-ass time to see their personal favorite songs. So then I feel obligated to play the super-old ones, but then the people who are mainly into the newer ones are like 'I don't know what that one in the middle was about the guy who wanted to kill somebody or something.' This is one of those. If you are unacquainted with the fish identified in the first line, I had a few of them back when I wrote it. They are the color of obsidian. (2023-04-18)
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