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The neighbours (representing parents) start up their cars - they’re running away from the town and it’s issues. The prayers (think of a “God help us!” sort of parental exclamation) are both cynical and sarcastic. There seems to be no effort to clear up the mess garbagemen clean the dumpsters, but this is a cycle of dirty and clean. Talking about it won’t stop it from happening. Whatever reason the cameras and reporters turn up (perhaps a metaphor for “the morning after” questioning that the kids will face as they wake up), it seems the situation is unlikely to change. Think of the way genius is used sarcastically these young people should be pursuing wisdom. The song suggests that swimming in a lake of “porridge” is a foolish pursuit and the young people are wasting their lives. The stagnant atmosphere could be responsible for suicide, but more likely for a littler death.

Perhaps the little town where these kids live is suffocating them bussing tables is very boring. Note the French phrase “La petite mort” or “the little death”, an idiom for orgasm, pertaining to the breathless post-climatic exhaustion. I recognise the suffocation theme but I don’t get the notion of a literal death. The suicide/death concept which many people on here seem to have commented on doesn’t fit in here, for me. He busses tables and gets high, he’s probably just come back from a gap year around Europe (mumbling German fables whilst high). I think the genius is one of the local kids, not an older man as some here have suggested. The genius next door verse expands on this his dismally drab job didn’t matter “as long as he was able to strip his clothes off… at night… just him and the secret he was keeping”. The adults (neighbours, others and locals) don’t want to talk about “the porridge” and the kids are also dismissive “saying to them it doesn’t matter”. This song is about masturbation as an accepted antidote for youthful boredom. “If you just hold in your breath till you come…” is sung orgasmically and would suggest as much. I agree with the auto-erotic asphyxiation interpretation. Now the geek 'genius' thought he'd try the theory out himself, without anyone knowing- he thought he was smarter than the drunk boys and would be sober enough to save himself, but he drowned alone in the lake, still hoping to acheive his orgasm, not realizing that there was no 'antidote' to save him from death. So they joke, and they nicknamed it the porridgeĬause over night that lake had turned as thick as butter' 'The neighbours were trying to keep it quiet The townspeople obviously did not find it appropriate to talk about what went down at the lake. inspiring the humor in the consistency of the lake itself. Perhaps they joked that those young men who died had ejaculated in those waters. Instead, many drowned- but this did not keep the kids from going back. I believe maybe the lake had a reputation- the teenagers would go there to party, and dare eachother to hold their breath a long time underwater, hoping to achieve the fabled orgasm while still surviving to tell about it. 'dreaming that the antidote is orgasm' - many believe that when a person drowns, they experience a euphoric sensation at the moment of death, comparable to an intense orgasm. Hold in your breath til you thought it through, you foolish child! The garbageman were emptying the dumpsters The neighbors were starting up their cars In the morning the film crews start arriving Hold in your breath til you thought it through, you foolish child

To strip his clothes off by the dumpsters

Hold in your breath til you thought it through, you fool

Party next door come see me lyrics full#

If you just hold in your breath til you come back up in full So they jokingly nicknamed it the porridgeĬause overnight that lake had turned as thick as butterīut the local kids would still go swimming, drinking The neighbors were trying to keep it quietīut I swear that I could hear the laughter Others said it must have been the weather Some said the local lake had been enchanted