From: venusforrest@gmail.com
Copy: quester@infionline.net
Harold Groot於 2012年11月19日星期一UTC+8上
8時37分19秒寫道：
> On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 04:52:00 -0800 (PST), venusforrest
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> wrote:
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> >It's on the second verse.
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> >Work Boots, one blue suit,
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> >Size too small, don't wear it at all,
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> >Unless somebody kicks, gets hitched,
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> >That's a bitch, makes me itch.
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> >
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> >What does "somebody kicks" mean? I know that "gets hitched" means "gets
married"
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> >The size of his one blue shirt is too small because he hardly wears it at
all.
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> >Does "somebody kicks" mean "somebody dies"?
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> Yes. More commonly you will see it in the longer form "kicks the
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> bucket", but that would have too many syllables for this song lyric.
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> The song reference to "one blue suit" is not referring to a shirt,
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> rather the formal jacket and trousers of a business suit. That would
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> commonly be worn with a white shirt (more formal), a light blue shirt
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> (for a blue or grey suit) or even a light yellow shirt (for a brown
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> suit). He wears work or casual clothes almost all the time, he wears
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> a suit so seldom (weddings and funerals only) that it isn't worth
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> while for him to buy a new one in his current size (presumably he has
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> put on weight over the years).
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Thanks a lot, Harold Groot. I have another question from the same second
verse.
"That's a bitch, makes me itch." Here a bitch means something unpleasant or
uncomfortable for him?
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