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THE MAN FROM UTOPIA

 Cocaine Decisions

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Chop a line now...
From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
  Cocaine usually comes in a rock like format that must be chopped up with a razor blade on a mirror. You chop it up until it is fine and powdery and then make lines which are snorted through straws or rolled up currency - the $100 bill being ultra cool.
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Cocaine decisions...
You are a person with a snow-job
From: "Peter de B. Harrington" <Harring@Helios.phy.OhioU.edu>
  Snow-job funny double entendre. Snow implies coke, but also implies the person has a job that does not really contribute to society (sort of like a lawyer or publicist). (To snow = to put one over or fool).
From: John Henley <jhenley@mail.utexas.edu>
  "snow job" - refers to a job that seems more important than it is, where you fool people about how important you are and what you can do. Also a job that pays enough so you can buy coke.
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You got a fancy gotta go job
From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
  Just to rhyme mostly. "gotta-go" just refers to high powered 1980's style business. Someone with "A fancy gotta go job" is a big time wheeler and dealer who has a lot of money. Cocaine is expensive.
From: "Peter de B. Harrington" <Harring@Helios.phy.OhioU.edu>
  Coke is being referred to as yuppie or upper class drug. During the early '80s alot of status was attached to coke use. Zappa used to do a live bit called Cocaine Rumors, about parties where all the participants would converse about how much coke they just did. Also, the Yuppie implication was that they were busy in their job and were always on the move, so a common expression was "gotta go."
From: John Henley <jhenley@mail.utexas.edu>
  "fancy gotta-go job" - refers to a busy and important job which keeps the person moving from place to place all day. Many big sales executives are like this. In the 1980s, many of those executive were young guys who made so much money that they could, and did, spend a lot of it on coke.
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I don't wanna know
'Bout the things that you pull
Outta your nose
From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
  You've obviously never done cocaine. Since you try to coat your mucuous membranes with it, it can irritate and form big crusty snot. Sometimes the membranes bleed. If you abuse coke it really fucks up your inner nose. This is what Frank is talking about. The big disgusting coke snot that users do pull out of their nose.
From: "Peter de B. Harrington" <Harring@Helios.phy.OhioU.edu>
  What goes in must come out. At least sometimes. So the next morning when you want to clear those nasal passages for that wake-up line, one uses a finger which can remove quite a bit of residue. Also, when you are not telling people about how much you did, you can discuss what you pulled out and what you then did with it.
 
And the cocaine decisions that you make today
Will not be discovered till it's over 'n' done
By the customers you hold at bay
  :-)))))) Let's mine the harbor ((((((-:
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We must watch the stuff you make
You have let us eat the cake
From: John Henley <jhenley@mail.utexas.edu>
  "eat the cake" - I think this refers back to the saying from the French Revolution, "let them eat cake." In Frank's sense, it means you have given people flashy stuff that they think they want, instead of giving them useful stuff that they need. It also implies that the person who provides the cake does not respect the people who eat it.
From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
  Big wordplay on the famous Marie Antoinette line "Let them eat cake" Referring to the insensitivity of the opulent rich.
From: "Peter de B. Harrington" <Harring@Helios.phy.OhioU.edu>
  From Marie Antoinette "Let them eat cake." Implies the aristocratic attitude and that in the end we are paying for their cocaine decision.
From: Biffyshrew <biffyshrew@aol.com>
  In the live arrangement of this song as performed on the 1981-82 tour, Tommy Mars would sing/play "Happy Birthday To You" (using the Vocoder) after this line. When the album came out I was very disappointed that this little detail was not included--it was my favorite part of the song!
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