"It's a bogus poetic allusion to the evils of vanity. Or it could be just something that sounds good to sing to. Or it might be that I was putting my own lyrics to a Can song where I can't work out the real lyrics. And there's also a tradition of blues people talking about haircuts -- gimme that wig back that I boughtcha."

"The summer of '99, electric music and the summer people. Stag-o-Lee has just got out of a penitentary in Florida. He joins a schoolbus of camouflage artists tracking across the southern part of the United States. It's like an inverse freedom ride. Stag-o-Lee has lost his hat, he's hatless in this new environment."

(I think that last one is a pretty good explanation of the music video--except that Beck has a hat...)

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