IN THE STRIPES¹
THE DOGS²
JAPAN
A MOUSE DOES IT WITH A RAT³
FURRY LOVE⁴
AND THE TWO OF US⁵
GULPING
YOU REALLY DO HAVE SUCH STANDOUT HANDS⁶





1.) Refers to reading between the lines.
2.) American performers.
3.) Historical juxtaposition of warring 1940's era United States and Japan in the context of the Waits album Mule Variations. See also "irony" or the chorus of the song.
4.) Rhetorical. After all, what mode of the word "love" is not "furry"?
5.) Man versus man, man versus self, man versus nature, man versus supernatural, man versus society, man versus technology, man versus destiny, man versus audience.
6.) To chose with, baby.