Plato's Cave [The Falling Wallendas featuring Todd Sucherman]

Plato's Cave
Written by Allen Keller and Scott Bennett

Lead Vocals by Scott Bennett

I tried to stay in one night
But too many mirrors and too much light
Crawled from my apartment to Plato's Cave
Like a worm to a freshly dug grave

Phil Spector's wall of sound
Lay in pretty pieces on the ground

I had nothing to say
I said 'til I was blue in the face
Some yellow-fingered girl offered me some skin
(She was ecstasy thin)
But those girls they don't want to fuck
(They just want to touch)

Dance light poured from every glory hole
Sinatra at CBGB's
Segovia on his Danelectro

I killed another cigarette
Asked everybody "Am I having fun yet?"
So I slipped into a Susse Chalet
(Wearing candy lingerie)
Popped a quarter in the bed
A couple of reds
Pulled a plastic bag over my head

My whole life passed in front of me
I saw Linda Lovelace
As the statue of liberty

Interpretation

I was going to stay home and get to bed at a decent hour but ended up going to a bar called Plato's Cave, named for the famous allegory of the cave told by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.  The wall of sound had fallen and broken, much like the Wall of Sound music production approach invented by Phil Spector. The girl, very thin, like many who spend too much time stoned on ecstasy, just a tease, not wanting sex. Dance lights spill out of the clubs, like Frank Sinatra at CBGB's with Andrés Segovia playing his Danelectro guitar.  No fun, so I went to a Susse Chalet with a vibrating bed like the ones popular in motels in the 1960s, with 15 minutes for a quarter.  Feeling suicidal I popped some reds and put a plastic bag over my head to suffocate myself, which caused a hallucination, where I thought I saw Linda Lovelace as the Statue of Liberty