"People tell me what a real nice guy you are, so come on seranade me on your acoustic guitar".
Does Jarvis sing this as if to quote people who have spoken about him, or is he 'talking' to someone else. In other words, is Jarvis the nice guy or someone else?
I hope you catch my draft. I thought it seemed ambiguous!
Apologies if I sound thick because the answer is proabaly obvious!
I originally thought he was sarcastically refering to the Ford Mondeo owning, Dido album-buying 'modern man' but he has introduced the song at gigs and in some interviews by saying how a night of drinking at a dinner-party for example ends with people saying the gist of this line to him but he is too too fcuked (pissed) to live up to their expectations.
Whatever, it's one of the best songs he's ever written.
I can't agree with that, but it does seem like Jarvis is talking to himself in this song; now that he's all grown-up with a family he finds that his life has become disturbingly close to what he, as an outsider, attacked on 59, Lyndhurst Grove, I Spy, etc. But he doesn't buy into this lifestyle, so he's still an outsider really, and even sees fit to mention Peter Sutcliffe and Wearside Jack in reference to the song.
I like The Idiot's point. I also like the wry line in Tonite which goes "Somebody falls in love / Somebody falls from a window-sill" - the latter bringing to mind Jarvis' legendary fall from a window ledge (after which he'd ended up in a wheelchair for months, recall...)
