The meaning of the lyrics of "Lump" by the Presidents of the United States of America

[UncleRojelio]

Huh, I always assumed Lump was a frog.

[muldoonthief]

@even_sven

We meet our protagonist as he is embarking to his new home outside of the city, presumably on a collective farm. He looks forward to the paradise that awaits, as illustrated in the fanciful image of peaches available to him in unlimited quantities, at no cost. Rather than being sold in distant markets, the literal fruits of his labor are made available to him as a worker. And this is no slave camp. In this farm workers are have the freedom to relax as needed, filled with the bounty of nature and labor.

With that in mind, he takes a moment to contemplate the dignity of the labor that produces this abundance. From his own collective farm to the industrialized factories in urban areas, the humble peach has been turned into a product with great value, in pies or otherwise.

He then thinks of an unspecified woman, who he perhaps left behind as he serves his country. With some lingering emotion, he exceeds power over the peach (and perhaps nature itself), crushing it. Returning to the theme of nature, he then turns the peach into a shelter for ants. This echoes the them of collective labor (like so many busy ants) producing a safe space out of nature’s bounty.

What about the ninjas?

[Drunky_Smurf]

@RickJay

“Peaches” is about a guy who likes having sex with country girls.

I always assumed it was about a man having sex with peaches.

[DrCube]

I got this album for my 13th birthday, and really loved it. I still think it is good music, though not anything world-changing. I’ve always tried to take PUSA’s “less is more” message to heart.

I never listened to their second album, and completely lost track of them after that. Did they break up? Get back together? I guess a trip to Wikipedia is in order…

[Catamount]

@DrCube

I guess a trip to Wikipedia is in order…

I took that trip and found the explanationfor the lyrics to both “Lump” and “Peaches.”

Though “Peaches” met the most critical success, the band credits “Lump” as their favorite single. The song’s strange lyrics came from a dream that Ballew had while fighting pneumonia. The antibiotics he was taking caused an allergic reaction that produced several consecutive nights of wild and crazy dreams. The lyrics for “Peaches” were written about a crush Ballew used to have on a girl. According to him, she had a peach tree in the front of her yard, and when he finally summoned the courage to go talk to her, he stood under the tree and smashed peaches in his fist until he decided not to talk to her.

Now what kind of meaning can we find in the song “Kitty”?

[Push_You_Down]

@Apwalker

Perhaps earlier commentators missed the revelation c 1996 that POTUSA formed more or less on a dare. Originally formed as an impromptu party band, there was a wager that they couldn’t come up with an album-length of material in an impossibly short period of time.

If memory serves that first album is under 30 minutes long.

[BurnMeUp]

The lead singer and lyricist now does double duty with a “Kindie” rock band… (kids music with an indie flavor). He calls himself Caspar Babypantsand has some catchy songs that could be passed off as Presidents stuff. My boys love them.

[Dale_Sams]

“She don’t eat meat but she sure like the bone”

Says everything you need to know about 90’s and hippy girls.

[Dale_Sams]

@SpazCat

You must have never heard any '70s pop. I’ll see your “Lump” and raise you “McArthur Park.”

Nothing wrong with 70’s or 90’s pop. It’s this decade’s pop that sucks ass. When ‘artists’ like Nicki Minaj and Iggy Azalea feud…“Wrap it up!”

[GraceOMalley]

So I think that its pretty basic…the girl murdered in her PJs and dumped in the swamp. The Piranhas were confused b/c most things from the animal kingdom are confused by human remains, it’s a rarity in the wild.
As for her intelligence or “small brain” well I think that goes to show she trusted the wrong bloke - she was either a ho or a whore and one of her fuck buddies either got to obsessed with her and she just wanted to have fun or she just took the wrong guy home. They had sex. After which she cleaned up, got in her PJ’s, he killed her then dumped her body.
She’s a lump cos she dead, she’s rocking out with the band - which means she’s dead…like she is up in heaven having fun…
So since I’ve been hearing this song for like over 20 years and it took this thread of a convo for me to get it :smack:

[GraceOMalley]

“I actually think I may be possessed with demons, I was dropped on my head as a kid.”

Maybe one of these folks would know better

:mad::mad::mad:

[astorian]

Just a guess: guys get into rock bands for many reasons, but getting girls is usually a major factor. The dream is to become a rock star and have thousands of screaming girls chasing you.

But bands often find that real groupies are damaged girls with a lot of problems. “Lump” is an ugly picture of the girls the Presidents of the United States were seeing backstage: emotionally scarred, drug addicted zombies who screwed musicians without any real passion, emotion or even enjoyment.

[yanceylebeef]

“Trump lingered last in line for brains
and the ones he got were sorta rotten and insane.”

Eerily prescient.

[Jonathan_Chance]

Or, hell, it could just be a goofy as hell alt-band with nonsensical lyrics but fun attitude.

Just a thought.

[RGCarr]

All of you clueless virgins… LUMP is a woman’s CLIT … “boggy marsh” = wet vagina… I think that’s as far as I need to take it … The rest is self explanatory

[GreysonCarlisle]

@RGCarr

All of you clueless virgins… LUMP is a woman’s CLIT … “boggy marsh” = wet vagina

On what grounds do you assume that all of the previous posters are male?

[BlankSlate]

So clitorises wear pajamas? I knew something fishy was going on.

[solost]

Is Lump related to Seether? Those two woulda made for a hell of a double date…

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