ETA Hoffmann

[xineax]

I think this song is about Marie in the Nutcracker by ETA Hoffmann.

Totally unqualified but...read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T.A._Hoffmann

Grasping for straws?: read the synopsis of The Nutcracker (in the play Marie is Clara)

[xineax]

i have too much time on my hands...the song means everything and nothing.

[Cemetery Shindig]

i have too much time on my hands...the song means everything and nothing.

It's about Maynard's mother Judith Marie Keenan.

[xineax]

tongue-in-cheek and ironic thread...

[Cemetery Shindig]

tongue-in-cheek and ironic thread...

It's difficult to convey irony and sarcasm through text. You did an especially bad job of it.