Do you know what the fuck "Two-headed Boy" is about?

[thespearkid]

Post your interpretation if you think you know it.

[Aeroplaned]

Zaphod Beeblebrox?

[Machu505]

Not a clue.

[thespearkid]

Who voted yes? I want to hear an interpretation because I've got no clue whatsoever. I know Mangum is big on dreams and visions and such but he's always said his dreams mean something.

[Russellmcdoogle]

I feel like it's about the dreamed results of a Nazi experiment. Just makes sense considering what Mangum has said about his Anne Frank dreams.

[billy_yo]

i have not a clue

[TheZeroKid]

Taken from the 33 1/3 book series, on In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, by Kim Cooper:

"This scans like a song for a carnival punk, one of those freaks of nature preserved in formealdehyde, yet somehow animate, cognizant and full of love for she who waitsoutside the jar for the radio he;s building her. And here's starved Anne again, with the lover's (or are they killers?) fingers that trace her meatless spine. Maybe the jar is a metaphor for impermeable time, a transparent barrier between souls. Maybe the title is an off-color reference to every man's (and woman's too) eternal struggle, which head do you think with? The song closes with words of comfort for the jar-baby, singing him to silence, or sinking into poison fluid oblivion that he resists no more.

Scott Spilance notes that it took him six or seven years to realize that the two-headed boy was tapping on a jar in a darkened lab somewhere, as someone asks 'Where are you? Tap on the jar and I'll follow the sound'"

[batmannj]

no idea.

[jgord88]

Neutral Milk Hotel?

[Ryzenfall]

Taken from the 33 1/3 book series, on In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, by Kim Cooper:

"This scans like a song for a carnival punk, one of those freaks of nature preserved in formealdehyde, yet somehow animate, cognizant and full of love for she who waitsoutside the jar for the radio he;s building her. And here's starved Anne again, with the lover's (or are they killers?) fingers that trace her meatless spine. Maybe the jar is a metaphor for impermeable time, a transparent barrier between souls. Maybe the title is an off-color reference to every man's (and woman's too) eternal struggle, which head do you think with? The song closes with words of comfort for the jar-baby, singing him to silence, or sinking into poison fluid oblivion that he resists no more.

Scott Spilance notes that it took him six or seven years to realize that the two-headed boy was tapping on a jar in a darkened lab somewhere, as someone asks 'Where are you? Tap on the jar and I'll follow the sound'"

Sheds some light on it. But it's a lot of speculative meandering convoluted light.

[yourprivateeye]

it's jeff magnum, i don't think you're supposed to know what it all actually means.

i actually listened to itaots right before class today.

[jawstheme]

I always thought of it as giving life to a freak Nazi experiment or something from Chernobyl. I saw fake pictures of a two-headed fetus in a jar full of fermaldehyde one time and it made me think of this song. In the middle of the song it says "your eyes ain't movin now. they just lay there in there clouds." This suggests that the two headed boy is dead, and he is building this life for him through the song.
I'm bad at explaining these things.

[kolby182]

listened to that album today....and i have no clue what most of the songs are about. Is it a concept album? it feels like one...but I'm just not smart enough to disect it

[TMartin442]

"The real meaning. | Reviewer: Klaus | 12/9/2007

This is about a twin who gets experimented on, and his other twin witnesses it and feels it. At the end when all the sick doctors are done and the twin is dead, the boy takes his dead twin outside to bury him in the snow. The angels come and greet him and take him in to heaven."

I just found this on some random lyrics site, I have no idea. I had no idea this song even touched on a subject of this nature.

[thespearkid]

"The real meaning. | Reviewer: Klaus | 12/9/2007

This is about a twin who gets experimented on, and his other twin witnesses it and feels it. At the end when all the sick doctors are done and the twin is dead, the boy takes his dead twin outside to bury him in the snow. The angels come and greet him and take him in to heaven."

I just found this on some random lyrics site, I have no idea. I had no idea this song even touched on a subject of this nature.
I don't really hear much of that in the lyrics.