On Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-5, Berserk Kirk wrote:   
   > I came up with several explanations to a few songs form the Katy Lied   
   > album.  I'd be interested in some responses with these:   
   >    
   > bad sneakers  seems to be about a rookie drug dealer.  The chorus seems   
   > to explain that he used to be poor (he wears bad sneakers) but has   
   > recently purchased a pina colada.  He is naive and somehow got sucked   
   > into the business.  There he is standing in New York with a transistor   
   > (possibly a drug term) and his pay from his new job.  everything seems   
   > to be going well, but after a while he becomes paranoid and feels alone.   
   >    
   > daddy don't live... is a song about a father who is an alcoholic, drug   
   > user.   he goes out to Hackensack to meet a supplier and dissappears.   
   > the couplet "Daddy ain't smokin no fine cigar/ but we know you're   
   > smokin' wherever you are" seems to imply that he is either burning in   
   > hell or doing something sexually deviant that he is forced into doing,   
   > possibly under threat of death.   
   >    
   > dr. wu is about a guy has a very beautiful wife (Katy) and a friend who   
   > is a doctor (Wu).  What he does not know is that his wife actually takes   
   > a liking to his friend.  She schemes to fake a terible illness in order   
   > to have some time with the doctor.  So, the narrator (husband) rushes   
   > her to his friend, Dr. Wu, hoping that he can save this woman's life.   
   > He stays at the hospital all night, very worried that his wife may die   
   > and feeling "strung out".  After waiting for many hours for some news,   
   > he decides to go into the emergency room to see whats going on.  What he   
   > sees is his friend, Dr. Wu, humping his wife.  The narrator concludes by   
   > saying that he applauds his wife for her craftiness and realizes that   
   > Dr. Wu is only an average guy who would, of course, jump at the   
   > opportunity to bang her.   
   >    
   > your gold teeth II seems to be about a gambler who is so far in debt   
   > that he trembles every time his poker buddies ride to his house.  The   
   > only thing this poor man has in his possesion is his gold teeth.   
   > Because he is obsessed with gambling, the man foolishly puts his gold   
   > teeth up and realizes that he has lived a fool for gambling away his   
   > whole life.  He lets these scheming card sharks into his house and they   
   > slowly take everything he owns, right down to his gold teeth.   
      
   I'm not sure what post I am replying too, but I always wondered if the   
   piastre's line refered to spying during or before the Viet Nam War (in Vn in   
   they call it "The American War" btw...) since there was a lot of Heroin use   
   back then amongst ex-pats    
   there at that time. I'm thinking of a time like described in "The Quiet   
   American"  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Indochinese_piastre   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)