Vigilante Shit
Details
- Stated inspiration
- From the Midnights prologue: "you're cosplaying vengeance fantasies, where the bad bad man is hauled away in handcuffs and you get to watch it happen."
“Drivin' in your Benz”
Driving his Benz as the cool, vengeful poise of the song; the borrowed luxury marks the speaker taking the high-status seat in her own revenge.
“While he was doing lines and crossing all of mine”
The man is caught doing lines of cocaine, the phrase doubling as crossing the lines he should not, his drug use folded into the portrait of someone who broke every rule.
“Picture me thick as thieves with your ex-wife”
Mental staging of the speaker for the listener's perception. Full analytical context awaits the Vigilante Shit episode extraction.
the good wife and what she finally collects
“She gets the house, gets the kids, gets the pride”
“Good wives always know” — mad woman
Community readers hear the bridge's good wives answered two albums later in Vigilante Shit: the wife who always knew finally acts on the knowledge, collecting the house, the kids and the pride the spin doctor's flings cost her. The bridge plants what she knows; the later song stages the settlement.