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Am I a pleb for liking Elliot Smith, I know this isn't Mu/ but I won't get a decent opinion of the lyrics there. I feel like this is a fantastic post-modern / nihilistic song.

Throwing candy out to the crowd, dragging down the main
The helpless little thing with the dirty mouth who's always got something to say
You're sitting around at home now waiting for your brother to call
I saw him down in the alley, having had enough of it all

> so there's a parade, they're throwing candy, brothers fucked off to shoot up in the alley with our narrator

Said you can do what you want to whenever you want to
You can do what you want to, there's no one to stop you

> you can do what you want to there's no one to stop you, cool huh

All spit and spite, you're up all night and down every day
A tired man with only hours to go just waiting to be taken away
Getting into the back of a car for candy from some stranger
Watching the parade with pinpoint eyes full of smouldering anger

>here's where it all comes together, our narrator is a junkie (pinpoint eyes) looking out at a parade, a nice image of life as being organised around meaningless subjective cultural practices, very epitomising. Also candy here is meaning and heroin, in rejecting normal life the parade, which he sees as meaningless, he has chosen instead to have his candy/meaning supplied by junk. Getting into the back of the car, taking candy from some stranger again very epitomising of the way we look for meaning.

You can do what you want to whenever you want to
You can do what you want to, there's no one to stop you
Now you can do what you want to whenever you want to
Do what you want to whenever you want to
Do what you want to whenever you want to though it doesn't mean a thing
Big nothing

> even though our narrator has chosen to reject the parade/meaning and is "free" his life of smack addiction and conscious nihilism is not freeing: it is meaningless by definition.