The Rum Talking lyrics
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tdwarms
Mon, 11/12/2017 - 12:09
I don't mind you asking at all. :)
So, I made an error that I just noticed since you pointed it out. It should be spelt "deuced," not "duced." "To deuce" means to hold up your fingers like the peace sing or V-sign (i.e. two fingers) as a way of saying goodbye. Sometimes if someone is really pissed off, they might say, "Deuces!" as a way of angrily saying goodbye to someone or something. So in this context, it means he's getting rid of his cigar, or figuratively saying goodbye to his cigar.
"To step out of one's boots," I'm pretty sure means "to move so fast that it's like you're going to come out of your shoes."
I don't hear an extra syllable, but I could be wrong. The only other thing I could possibly think he was saying would be "end in a cage." In this context, it would mean to be arrested and have to spend the night in the drunk holding cell at the police station. Both make sense in context, but I'm more partial to "and engage." What do you think?
Some of these songs are quite casual or have a bit of slang, so if you're ever hung up, don't hesitate to ask! :D
Klou
Mon, 11/12/2017 - 12:20
Thanks for the explanations :)
I think I get the V-sign thing. ^^
"Coming out of a shoe" is when you're wearing a shoe but the shoe falls from your foot?
Just another question that has nothing to do with the song: what's the pronunciation of your username? :) "Tee dwarms"?
tdwarms
Mon, 11/12/2017 - 12:25
No problem. Yeah, "stepping out of your shoes" is figurative, not literal. So it's figurative as though you're moving so fast that your body is gone, but your shoes remain where you were standing.
I suppose my username should be pronounced "Tee Dee Double-U Arms," as it's acutally my initials and part of my last name. I'm terribly unimaginative when it comes to usernames. Honestly, you can pronounce it however seems best to you. But my name is Taylor, anyways.
tdwarms
Mon, 11/12/2017 - 12:31
Ah, it took me a minute to see what you were saying. :) It's a great suggestion, but I don't think that's what he's saying here.
If he was telling me this as a story and he said, "I want(ed) to see the night end in a cage." I would know exactly what he meant: He was so angry that he wanted to beat this other guy up, even if that meant getting arrested for disorderly conduct.
Arou_
Mon, 11/12/2017 - 12:30
Third stanza, fourth line should be "Well, all the rest was child’s play", right?
Eight stanza: I think he's singing "gut" at the end of the third line to get a straight rhyme with "shut" and it might even be "street" at the first line.
Ninth stanza: What does he mean by "The road I was bouncing popped all life from the bar"?
tdwarms
Mon, 11/12/2017 - 12:37
Yes and yes. Well spotted!
As for the line in the ninth stanza, I'm not sure. That was the one line I had the hardest time hearing.
I thought perhaps he meant: "the road I was bouncing" -> "the man's head/body that I caused to bounce on the street" he won't even dignify him by referring to him
"popped all life from the bar" -> "everyone had to leave the bar because of the fight/crime"
Arou_
Mon, 11/12/2017 - 12:45
I agree, it's hard to hear that line and to me it even sounds like it's something of a tongue twister for him (and in the video the movement of his mouth doesn't really match until "the bar"), but your suggestion is good, I just had a hard time understanding it. :)
tdwarms
Mon, 11/12/2017 - 12:47
I tried to look at his lips for a lot of the transcription to see if I could understand him too. :) Another thing I noticed is that he's trying to stick to a rhyming scheme and that makes his phrasing a bit awkward at times: -> "everything he said unusually stung." No one sober would say that. :D
tdwarms
Mon, 11/12/2017 - 12:53
Well, the way I understand it, he's talking about the effect of the man hitting the road as if it were the road that was bouncing and not the man. Does that make a bit more sense?
The only alternative I could think of is that he means "bouncing" as in "a bouncer" -> the big men that stand at the entrances of bars. But since the singer doesn't seem to be a bouncer in this story, it doesn't make much sense to me.
Arou_
Mon, 11/12/2017 - 15:01
I'm sorry Taylor, but I'm still trying to make sense of the narrative of the last part of the last verse to figure out what's happening; not just on a line by line basis, but as a whole, to try and grasp the internal logic:
1. The narrator notices his assailant having his eyes shut.
2. Something the size of a truck comes from behind the narrator, misses him, but hits the assailant? Could it be a truck and that's why he has his eyes shut, blinded by the headlights? (Or should "before me" be interpreted as them both being hit? But that wouldn't make sense if it comes from behind.)
3. How is the narrator suddenly bouncing his assailant against the road? If the narrator is bouncing against the road, like Klou suggested, then it would be consistent with being hit by a car, but like I said above, that doesn't really make sense.
I'm confused :/
Thanks for your patience!
mcflorid Arou_
Mon, 11/12/2017 - 23:04
Okay then it must have been the bouncer who was "‘bout the size of a truck" (might be a slight exaggeration)...
But then "Hit my assailant before me, thunderstruck" means "first him, then me", right? Not "hit my assailant in front of me"?
And then everyone gets out in the street and the narrator realizes it would be a very short fight? That makes sense. :)
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Sorry to ask for your help once again, but what's the meaning of "duced" in "duced my cigar"? According to the context I'd say something like "écraser un cigare" but I couldn't find a meaning for this word, even the urban dictionary isn't really helpful :/
Same thing with "I stepped out my boots", I can't figure out what he's doing.
Also, isn't there an extra syllable in "and engage"? (01:54)