Contributors:

Jonathan Chaffer

Matthew Coon

Ido Magal

Shane Markle

This song is obviously about food in one way or another. It's a little unclear why the singer wants to have dinner remaining on his clothing in the morning. Perhaps this relates to him wanting to be ready to eat as soon as it is time (when the dinner bell rings).

A very prominent image is that of Pavlov's experiment. He researched stimuli by rining a bell each time he fed a dog. Eventually, the dog associated the sound of the bell with the food, and would salivate whenever the bell was rung. This is the reference made in the "experimental dog" section. Some would have it that the entire song is sung from the dog's point of view, while others feel that the dog is simply an allusion made in a song about something else.

The background lyrics in the first "experimental dog" section are very unclear. Several guesses as to the content have been made, none conclusive. Here are two of them:

Right                     Left

I repeat, my sir*         I reheat my soup,
fit it together           (It is a gumbo)
and walk a(way)           and walk away

*my sir, master, something like that.

                 I  |  re  | hea | t my | soup
                 gi | ve i | t a | good | look
                and | walk |  a  | (way)

                        [a ri hi ?m^ sup]

                        /gI vI t^ gUd lUk/*

                        [a_end w)k ^ we]

where:
       /)/ = [-high, +low, +back, +round, +tense]
     /a_e/ = [-high, +low, -back, -round, -tense]
       /^/ = schwa, stressed or unstressed
       /?/ = glottal stop