Locked in the Trunk of a Car by The Tragically Hip.
Why? (As if the title alone is not enough.)
Gord Downie (the lead singer of the band) claimed that he modeled the song's narrator after Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment:
"He appears first as an ageless shark moving through the centuries; then as an Everyman at the gas station, getting the tank topped off. In the end his mind is a forest of voices - he's howling in the third person,
'It'd be better for us if you don't understand.'
I wrote and sang this in the first-person, the monster's-eye view. It is probably for this reason that this one has always made me vaguely uneasy. It's just so... graphic. I don't always feel like I can be near it, let alone own it."
Stray connection from Crime and Punishment:
He (Raskolnikov) felt suddenly in his whole being that he had no more freedom of thought, no will. . . . It was as if a part of his clothing had been caught in the cogs of a machine and he was being dragged into it . . .
Why? (As if the title alone is not enough.)
Gord Downie (the lead singer of the band) claimed that he modeled the song's narrator after Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment:
"He appears first as an ageless shark moving through the centuries; then as an Everyman at the gas station, getting the tank topped off. In the end his mind is a forest of voices - he's howling in the third person,
'It'd be better for us if you don't understand.'
I wrote and sang this in the first-person, the monster's-eye view. It is probably for this reason that this one has always made me vaguely uneasy. It's just so... graphic. I don't always feel like I can be near it, let alone own it."
Stray connection from Crime and Punishment:
He (Raskolnikov) felt suddenly in his whole being that he had no more freedom of thought, no will. . . . It was as if a part of his clothing had been caught in the cogs of a machine and he was being dragged into it . . .
They don't know how old I am
They found armor in my belly
From the sixteenth century
Conquistador, I think
They don't know how old I am
They found armor in my belly
Passion out of machine revving tension
Lashing out at machine revving tension
Rushing by the machine revving tension
Morning broke out the backside of a truck-stop
The end of a line a real, rainbow-likening, luck stop
Where you could say I became chronologically fucked up
Put ten bucks in just to get the tank topped off
Then I found a place, it's dark and it's rotted
It's a cool, sweet kinda place
Where the coppers won't spot it
And I destroyed the map, I even thought I forgot it
However, everyday I'm dumping the body
It'd be better for us if you don't understand
It'd be better for me if you don't understand
Yeah
And I found a place, it's dark and it's rotted
It's a cool, sweet kinda place
Where the coppers won't spot it
And I destroyed the map that I'd carefully dotted
However, everyday I'm dumping the body
It'd be better for us if you don't understand
It'd be better for us if you don't understand
It'd be better for me if you don't understand
Let me out
They found armor in my belly
From the sixteenth century
Conquistador, I think
They don't know how old I am
They found armor in my belly
Passion out of machine revving tension
Lashing out at machine revving tension
Rushing by the machine revving tension
Morning broke out the backside of a truck-stop
The end of a line a real, rainbow-likening, luck stop
Where you could say I became chronologically fucked up
Put ten bucks in just to get the tank topped off
Then I found a place, it's dark and it's rotted
It's a cool, sweet kinda place
Where the coppers won't spot it
And I destroyed the map, I even thought I forgot it
However, everyday I'm dumping the body
It'd be better for us if you don't understand
It'd be better for me if you don't understand
Yeah
And I found a place, it's dark and it's rotted
It's a cool, sweet kinda place
Where the coppers won't spot it
And I destroyed the map that I'd carefully dotted
However, everyday I'm dumping the body
It'd be better for us if you don't understand
It'd be better for us if you don't understand
It'd be better for me if you don't understand
Let me out
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