"But now I rock a bar stool and I drink for two / Just pondering this time bomb in my mind."

— John Linnell and John Flansbaugh [They Might Be Giants]


Date
1990
Metaphor
"But now I rock a bar stool and I drink for two / Just pondering this time bomb in my mind."
Metaphor in Context
Confidentially, she never called me baby-doll
Confidentially, I never had much pride
But now I rock a bar stool and I drink for two
Just pondering this time bomb in my mind
Provenance
Listening
Citation
They Might Be Giants, "Lucky Ball & Chain," Flood (1990).
Date of Entry
06/12/2019

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.