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Green hocker croakin'
In the Pygmy Twylyte
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From: Bill Lantz <lantz@primenet.com>
Any time you spit snot, that's a hocker. Why it would be glowing is
probably a result of the mystery Pygmy Twylyte...
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From: "JWB" <mudshark@ptdprolog.net>
A hocker is a big disgusting booger. When you have a really bad
cold, you "hock" up something from your lungs that resembles the
color green, or often a flourescent yellow.
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From: Michael Pierry <stilliving@home.com>
But it seems a less literal interpretation is necessary in order to fit into
the context of the song. Perhaps this strung-out cokehead is being compared
to a disgusting booger? Or, another way to interpret "hocker" is "one who
hocks", meaning he's sick and he's hocking up these boogers.
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From: hoodooBUGZAPPER@newnorth.net (Hoodoo)
A hocker is (in my experience) a hunk of expectorated phlegm from the
bronchial region. A booger is any of a various form (wet, or, dry and
crusty) of nasal emissions. "Croakin'" in this context seems to me to
be the hoarseness or raspiness of having bronchial problems from
extensive chemical abuse.
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From: AJ Wilkes <u6n71@keele.ac.uk>
I would say a 'Green Hocker' would be a ball of sputum re 'Hock a
loogie',
but given the verb croakin' afterwards, might it be something to
do with a frog-type animal? And why a PYGMY twylyte???
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From: Michael Pierry <stilliving@home.com>
I think it's some coked-up addict, all strung out. He's "green"
because he' s sick, and he's a "hocker" because he hocks up yucky
stuff (maybe), and he's probably dying, or "croakin'". I think
the song is just generally sneering at the pathetic life of a
druggie.
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From: "JWB" <mudshark@ptdprolog.net>
Ah, excellent observation.
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From: hoodooBUGZAPPER@newnorth.net (Hoodoo)
I read it as the hocker is green that is being coughed up as in the
above mentioned alternative "hock a loogie". It is not literally
about a frog or dying; just the act of coughing or croaking up a green
hunk of phlegm. Taken as a whole, the "green hocker croakin'"
expression is obviously a put-down of the activity causing the
expectoration.
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Crankin' an' a-coke'n
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In the Winchell's do-nut Midnite
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From: "JWB" <mudshark@ptdprolog.net>
"Crankin' an' a-coke'n" are references to use of the drugs crank
(methanphetamine) and cocaine.
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From: Patrick Neve <splat@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
If you go to a donut shop at midnite, mostly the customers will be people
who work at night and junkies.
This line conjures familiar images of insomniac junkies and druggees
tweaking out in an all night donut shop, waiting to get their 2am sugar
fix. A sick sight.
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From: Bill Lantz <lantz@primenet.com>
Crank is slang for methamphetamine, usually a really slimy, runny substance
and Coke is slang for Cocaine. And since you're up all night, I guess your
hanging out at Winchell's.
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TTR. The Blue Light
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Oh well, you travel to bars
You also go to Winchell's Doughnuts
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Out of his deep on a 'fore day run
Hurtin' for sleep in the Quaalude Moonlight
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From: "JWB" <mudshark@ptdprolog.net>
Quallludes are a depressant drug.
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From: Bill Lantz <lantz@primenet.com>
A downer to bring you off the speed that's keeping you up all night.
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From: hoodooBUGZAPPER@newnorth.net (Hoodoo)
That should be "four day run" meaning to go on extended binge of
drugs, and can also be applied to heavy alcohol abuse as well.
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Green hocker in a Greyhound locker
Smokin' in the Pygmy Twylyte
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From: evilbob@tbag.tscs.com
In most bus station terminals (as in most airports) there are a number of
lockers wherein a person can temporarily stash their stuff. You put yer
stuff in the locker, close the door, jam 75 cents into a slot, remove the
locker key and take it with you. Upon your return you stick the key back
in (at which time it becomes stuck until you jam in another 75 cents) and
retreive yer stuff.
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Joined the bus on the 33rd seat
By the doo-doo room with the reek replete
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From: Michael Pierry <stilliving@home.com>
Once I sat on a train next to the toilet because there were no other seats.
It definitely had "the reek replete"!
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From: evilbob@tbag.tscs.com
At the back of all modern buses designed for interstate travel is a very
tiny restroom. Inside is a mirror, a sink (which displays a sign
indicating that you shouldn't drink the tap water) and a non-flushing
single-seat bench-type toilet. When you use the toilet your waste
materials disappear into a dark and smelly "pond" several feet below which
sloshes ominously to and fro. If road conditions are particularly bad you
run the risk of having some of this vile "pond-water" slosh out and land on
you. Invariably, the last 2 rows of the bus are permeated by the scent of
waste materials in general and doo-doo in particular overlaid with some
sickening antiseptic smell (presumably the primary ingredient of the
"pond-water").
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From: "JWB" <mudshark@ptdprolog.net>
Even the most sophisticated buses and airplanes in America have
these disgusting little bathrooms. Also, note that the offending
"pond water" is made up primairly of blue disinfectant/deodorizer.
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From: Bill Lantz <lantz@primenet.com>
maybe a little more "CC" with the number 33 (Room "33" with the smell of
the dog coming out of it)
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From: AJ Wilkes <u6n71@keele.ac.uk>
Is there any FZ comment about this song on any concert tapes? It
sounds like it could be a 'shoulda been there' real life story.
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Crystal eye, crystal eye
Got a crystal kidney & he's 'fraid to die
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From: hoodooBUGZAPPER@newnorth.net (Hoodoo)
And could the "crystal eye" be the way an extreme drug abuser looks
upon everyone with a paranoid vision. I think excess methamphetamine
usage causes great paranoia. Perhaps it could also be a color tinge in
a drug addict's eyes such as with jaundice.
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I agree with the "crystal kidney" being caused by overindulgence in
some chemical. I believe that a malfunctioning kidney can cause
extreme pain which would think one is possibly about to die, or wishes
they were to alleviate the pain.
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In the Pygmy Twylyte
Downer midnite
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So it's a song about drugs and addiction!
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From: "JWB" <mudshark@ptdprolog.net>
There certainly are many drug references in this song.
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From: Bill Lantz <lantz@primenet.com>
Alot of it is! See the reference to meth-amphetamine I made above for more
about the crystal reference.
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From: Michael Pierry <stilliving@home.com>
I think it's a song that describes a drug-addict as a disgusting
loser, the drugs have made him sick and incoherent, he's been up
for days: "out of his deep on a four-day run/hurtin' for sleep in
the Quaalude moonlight" So he's been snorting stuff and popping
pills for days, which is a pretty common thing for speed/coke
addicts to do, they go on binges. The lack of sleep combined with
the drugs tends to cause hallucinations and extreme paranoia ("he's
'fraid to die"). Then again, he's right to be paranoid, since he's
also been popping downers, which you can easily OD on. This is
also common for coke or speed guys to do, to try and soften the
"crash" after all the powder is gone. He could even be addicted
to them (barbituates are more addictive than heroin), which means
he can't sleep at all without them and if he doesn't take them, he
could die. So you can see, this guy has a lot of problems, which
he brought on himself, and FZ had little respect for a sad sack
like him.
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From: "JWB" <mudshark@ptdprolog.net>
Also, he may have been drinking, because he's got a "crystal kidney".
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From: Vladimir Sovetov <sova@kpbank.ru>
Also is there any CC with the
Sheik's song City Of Tiny Lites?
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From: "JWB" <mudshark@ptdprolog.net>
No. Not that I can find. Just the use of the word "downer".
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From: Vladimir Sovetov <sova@kpbank.ru>
So it doesn't sound as linked things to you Tiny Lites and Pygmy Twylyte?
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From: Michael Pierry <stilliving@home.com>
Both are about drug use and the "tiny" or "pygmy" world of drug escapism,
which Frank cast his scornful eye upon.
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Any proposal? I'd like to hear!