On Saturday, May 27, 2000 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, mjlipinski wrote:   
   > I notice they started both Tokyo shows with this song. A great song, but not   
   > exactly an upbeat, get-the-folks-outta-their-seats tune. Does anybody know   
   > what the boston rag refers to?   
   >    
   > Mick   
      
   It's a song about waiting by the phone for a dope dealer to call.   
      
    "Any news was good news" - he's waiting for his connection.    
      
   Hence - "out of my mind and you were on the phone". He's out of his mind   
   because he's waiting for the man to call and a woman he can't get to (she's in   
   Queens) is tying up the phone.   
      
   You were Lady Bayside - his woman is in Queens and he's in the lower east side   
   looking for drugs or a woman "So I pointed my car down 7th Avenue".   
      
   Lonnie (the kingpin) is so desperate he actually sweeps the floor looking for   
   something to get high on and winds up in a coma. So even the underworld   
   kingpin is strung out looking for scraps.   
      
   The "Boston Rag" is a local nick name for the Boston Herald newspaper. I   
   always figured it's him lamenting, wishing he were back in Boston, where he   
   could get drugs and get laid.   
      
   But even more cogent perhaps is the utterly dishwater dirty guitar behind the   
   lyrics from the second verse on. The first verse it's open tuned acoustic -   
   sounds like hope.    
      
   But the rest of the song it's gritty and crunchy - this would include the lead   
   - distorted, phased and overdriven - right into the board. It sounds like   
   desperation. If anyone ever played a guitar solo describing what it's like to   
   be dope sick, it's this    
   one.   
      
   And all through the song the rhythm counts out the dirge - 1 2 3 4 and 1.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)