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Your heart is lifeless and made of wood, and is dripping pitch, a black, viscous (and pretty gross) fluid. It’s basically a metaphor for how cold and uncaring you are, which is interesting when you take into account the previous line (that it felt good)

On the other hand, this line, and the line before it, could refer to how her heart was actually warm. When wood is on fire, the pitch actually helps to keep the fire going. Moreover, pitch was used, in the past, to act as a glue and keep things together.

So, more or less, this woman’s (his wife/ex-wife) intentions were all just fine, and they were fine with Isaac too.

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Quick guard is a move from Pokemon that protects all of the trainer’s Pokemon on one side.

So, Earl is using quick guard, and he might be a little bit short, but this leaves everyone stuck basically.

He might also reference to how he’s a fast guard (a traditionally little player) on the basketball court.

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This combines two ordinary childhood activities (basketball and fishing) that are also considered slang for spending money and picking up broads.

He could be literally fishing and balling, considering the yacht crash.

Or it could be referring to the act of fishing for women.

Also might be a reference to Captain Murphy’s song: Gone Fishing, given Earl’s good friends with Flying Lotus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYVhsQ-BRVo

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All Earl is seeing is this stack of cash with his tunnel vision. One cause of tunnel vision is drunkenness, so this could be a reference to the malt liquor in the next part of the line.

His King Cobra malt liquor is sweating through the brown paper bag because of condensation. because Earl’s on that Tunnel Vision.

This could also reference that he’s drinking so much alcohol, in the form of sweat, is sweating out of his ball sack.

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I wrote this shit while starting to recover from Strep Throat. Figured it was time to go to the doctors when I was literally spitting up blood for twenty minutes.

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The opening track from Jack White’s debut album Blunderbuss. He describes the aftermath of a relationship, taking the old “she took a piece of me when she left” phrase and describes it literally. There is definitely some wordplay/story-telling going on with Jack’s lyrics here. Jack is taking the age old story of someone’s kidney being cut out and sold on the black market, and turning it into a story about how the same kind of thing can happen in a relationship.

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