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Chris Garneau Lyrics

Music from the porch light
The sound of music that comes from the porch light or from outside every night.

Is the same song every night
The music playing outside is always the same song every night, creating a feeling of monotony.

Spider on the window
A spider crawling on the window of the house.

Crawls over mother's shadow
The spider is crawling over the shadow of the artist's mother, which is cast on the window.

If you could hear me say
The artist imagines telling someone what is on their mind.

Half of what I thought today
The singer has many thoughts and only wants to share a portion of them.

You would laugh in all my head
The imagined listener would find the singer's thoughts or ideas amusing, but only in their own mind.

From all the funny things I said
The artist thinks of these thoughts as 'funny things' that they have come up with.

Well I'll stand by the sea
The artist is standing by the ocean or sea, contemplating their thoughts.

Until the sand covers me
The artist means that they will stay there by the sea until they are covered up by the sand.

Empty bottles on the floor
There are empty bottles lying around on the floor, perhaps symbolizing a feeling of mess or disorder.

Body caught up to the shore
It is unclear exactly what this means but it implies a feeling of being trapped or stuck, like a body caught by the shore of the ocean.

Sending my eyelashes
The singer is metaphorically sending their eyelashes somewhere, perhaps meaning they are closing their eyes to meditate or imagine.

Where did you put your glasses?
The singer is asking someone where they put their glasses, which seems unrelated to the other lines before and after this one.

Bathtub filled with water
A scene where there is a filled bathtub in the house, which seems unoccupied and abandoned.

There on the kitchen counter
The humor comes from the fact that the missing glasses were on the kitchen counter all along, adding to the sense of absurdity and mental confusion.

You would laugh in all my head
The imagined listener finds the whole series of events or thoughts happening inside the artist's own head amusing.

From all the funny things I said
The humor comes from the way the singer sees their own thoughts as 'funny things' despite the confusion and chaos of the scenes they describe.