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Originally Posted by Gadzooks
Holy Guacamole,
This song is like a novel.
So to summarize, some fat ugly waitress is serving a "little" man and he explains how he banged a hot chick once, she left, and then the fat broad and the "little" man hook up.
Little dude ends up getting his dinky stinky at the end, I don't see how this is a sad song. Is it sad because the waitress was fat & ugly? (Wait, that actually makes a lot of sense...  ) |
It's classic Harry Chapin. He was a story teller. most of his songs took a "tad" longer than the 3:00 radio stuff.
The song itself, if you read between the lines, is about "losers". No hope, no future and just trying to get by. Misery loves company.
Anyway - that has always been my take on it.....that's the beauty of music. It's the listener who determines what they hear - no right or wrong.