Suits
Appears in 3 songs
“In your suit and tie, in the nick of time”
The suit and tie carries deliberate ambiguity, it could be worn to a wedding or a funeral, and the poem refuses to resolve which. This serves the song's central double-meaning structure.
“No one in my small town thought I'd meet these suits in L.A.”
The suits represent the industry executives, agents, and corporate figures who control the machinery of fame — depersonalized figures defined only by their clothing, contrasting with the 'flesh and blood' humanity of the artists they recruit.
“New money, suit and tie”
The suit and tie as a marker of the lover's surface attractiveness, he looks good, he's rich, he's magazine-ready. The image reduces the lover to an accessory in the speaker's public narrative.