Contributors:

Jonathan Chaffer

Mark Stephen Cipolone

Ford Prefect

Patrick A. Reid

This song is fairly simple. The man spoken of is a womanizer of some sort. "Hypnotist" is used metaphorically, with much of the language supporting it (getting sleepy, pocket watch). The fact that he "never had a pocket watch, never counted backwards" is our clue that he is not a hypnotist in the literal sense. Instead, he is a master of "hypnotizing" ladies into loving him, though the spell wears off ("You won't remember why you liked him"). This last line is also a joke, as it puns on lines real hypnotists use, telling their subjects what they will and won't remember when they wake.

Although on surface value this song appears to be about a great seducer of women, it is in fact about a guy who is so boring that he sends his dates to sleep. They are "getting sleepy, very sleepy," although he "never had a pocket watch, never counted backwards," which are of course methods real hypnotists use to send people to sleep.