1 post tagged “shitting the bed”

My friend Billy taught me the expression "to shit the bed", and I use it liberally, as often as I can. It basically means you fucked up, fucked the dog, didn't do your job, let things go to hell. However, today, while listening to music on shuffle on my new iPod, I came across not one but TWO separate songs with lyrics that reference shitting the bed or one's pants - literally. WTF? And the lyrics were clear enough that I took notice each time.

First:

Pedro The Lion - Keep Swinging
You got drunk, moreso than you'd ever been
You hailed a cab but passed out cold
Before you told the driver where to go
So he drove you around Chicago

You woke up, sicker than you'd ever been
You threw up and shit the bed
And there was no one there to clean you up
And the room was spinning all around

Make a fist and take a deep breath
Close your eyes and count to ten
Just keep swinging until you're over it

The mess you'd left
Had got you feeling pretty bad
But she is a maid
I guess that's what she gets paid for

And then:

Why? - By Torpedo Or Crohn's
[...]
today after lunch i got sick and blew chunks
all over my new shoes in the lot behind whole foods
this is a new kind of blues and what about losing
limb or loved one in a duel dissatisfies you or seems just
as a kid i did not shit my pants much,
why start now with this stuff
and man i do not bluff
second caller gets bit by a dog or jeff dahmer
kisses or stitches no mitt for these pitches
lone pone one master of the cheap pun,
if i'm not raw i'm just a bit underdone
but i'd be okay cool as a rail
if they'd just let us have health food in hell