![]() ![]() There's the wife, the accountant, the boss, and the narrator. Which means there is a forth character in this song. And it's not the boss because he's mentioned in that line. And it's not the wife talking because she was mentioned in that verse in the third person, and it wouldn't make sense to just switch pronouns there. Every other time a first person pronoun is used, it comes after a colon, because it's the words that the accountant and the wife are thinking. My initial thought was that this song is in third person, to the asshole.īut the line "I am the last one you'd ever suspect of setting the fire". There are three distinctive POVs in this song. I was totally buying the whole it's the accountant and the wife teaming up and setting a fire, either literal or figurative, to their boss/husband and exposing him for all of his bad things.īut something kept tripping me up. Okay, so I've been thinking about this song for awhile now. Oh whatever you say, oh whatever you say, ![]() Oh whatever you say, oh whatever you say. ![]() I'll do what you ask me, I'll do what you ask me. Oh whatever you say, oh whatever you say: I am the last one you'd ever suspect of setting the fire, of setting the fire.īut as you switch on your TV tomorrow morning, you'll hear me saying quietly: No one would dare to question you, oh no.īut in the night she leaves the papers in a tiny pile: evidence for her reasons.Īnd in the night he takes the main accounts and pulls the files, detailing every treason. She is a dress wearing a face in the doorway, opening her arms out to you: she's alone again.īut she goes on curating your domestic museum. don't know if you're coming home or when. Never a real moment together but she understands: you're an important man.Īnother late night. Whatever you want, whatever you want, whatever you want is fine by me. He knows every loophole, the art of fine print, massages the numbers 'til they fit.Īnd every time you ask him for another vanishing act, he half-smiles as if to say: No detectable ambition, a model of efficiency, far as you can see. He's a company man, your right hand, 13 years and counting. ![]()
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