Will someone please explain to me the meaning of these Dispatch lyrics?

Question

The song is "Bats in the Belfry." The lyrics are:
"I have a crazy idiosyncrasy
It's affinity to serendipity
And in this eternal epiphany
No hypocrisy or duplicity."

Answer 1

Bats in the belfry

Meaning

Crazy, eccentric.

Origin

The allusion is to bats - the erratically flying animals, and 'belfry' is the head. So, 'bats in the belfry' refers to someone who acts as though he has bats careering around in his head.

It might sound English in origin. It certainly has the right imagery to crop up in any number of Gothic novels based in English parsonages or turreted castles. In fact, it comes from the USA. Nor is it especially old. All the early citations are from American authors and date from the early 20th century. For example, firstly from the American author George W. Peck, in his 'Peck's Uncle Ike and the Red-Headed Boy', circa 1901:

"They all thought a crazy man with bats in his belfry had got loose."

Ambrose Bierce, also American, used the term in a piece for 'Cosmopolitan Magazine, in July 1907:

"He was especially charmed with the phrase 'bats in the belfry', and would indubitably substitute it for 'possessed of a devil', the Scriptural diagnosis of insanity."

Belfries are no longer common of course. Just as well that we don't appear to need them to express craziness - bats alone is now enough. The use of 'bats' and 'batty' to denote odd behaviour originated around the same time as 'bats in the belfry' and is clearly related. Again, the early authors to use the words are American:

1903 A. L. Kleberg - 'Slang Fables from Afar': "She ... acted so queer ... that he decided she was Batty."

1919 Fannie Hurst - 'Humoresque': "'Are you bats?' she said."

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Answer 2

Dispatch Lyrics

Answer 3

I don't know the band, but I can translate the words to more plain speech for you,

I have a weird habbit
It's that a lot of the time things seem to happen in sync
And all the time I have these powerful insights
No doing things that I tell other people not to do or saying one thing and doing another.

I have NO WAY of actually knowing if this is close to what the writer of the song actually meant... but this would be close to the meaning of the words.

I hope that helps.

Answer 4

It means that the only way to really enjoy life and make sense of it is to not make sense of it at all, but to release the infinity of the human experience. It recommends to become completely unfeeling to test if you will be able to accept the sensation of complete nothingness. It explains that even if you do this, the world will always revert to "drama", or the act of participating in the human experience, so it will never be a permanent solution to remove yourself from reality. Also, laughter and chocolate are pretty cool.