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Date of upload: Aug 1, 2022 ^^
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This song has an aweful backstory
Many people thought it was about a man who killed his wife but it's truly
About a suicide hotline that took place in 2016.
The line "hoarder of quarters" means that his wife liked collecting quarters.
And the line "someday when I go back outside, I'll see your okay" means the singer (Jack Stauber) wants to see her collecting quarters on the street again.
she called a suicide prevention hotline and they just put her on hold. (remember a SUICIDE PREVENTION hotline)
And by the time they called her back, she had already killed herself. Neighbors really missed her and said that the incident should never happen again, or should have never happened.
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Okay, a lot of people here are messing up the story, and I wanna get the record straight.
This song is about a real woman who was depressed and was seeking help.
Her own mental state mocked her, basically telling her to do it already (baby flatline, still time to do it too.)
Her husband loved and supported her (baby hotline, hold me close to you.)
The “hoarder of quarters line” is often misinterpreted as she liked collecting quarters, that’s not what this means at all. Not a lot of people know this, but for old school hotlines you needed quarters to call people, like a toll. So this is to reference how many times she called the hotline, it was like she was a hoarder of quarters the way she kept calling the hotline. It’s a clever play on words, obviously the “suicide hotline” isn’t an actual pay a quarter hotline, but those old pay a quarter hotlines actually needed you to pay a quarter. It’s just supposed to truly tell you how many times she called that hotline.
“I contend that your drinking eye has never opened.” This is because she’s not dead. Often times when people commit suicide they’ll get drunk, and in their drunken state they become emotional and point out all the flaws about themselves. Stuff that they “didn’t see before.” Almost, like a drinking eye. Considering she has not yet committed suicide, her “drinking eye” never opened. This is once again, either someone else mocking her or her own mental state.
Her husband, knows that soon she might try to commit suicide, and he hates hoping things will get better, because they never do. (I contend somebody will die, and I hate hoping.)
She’s been taking medicine to deal with this depression, the pills are supposed to make everything better, but they’re not. This shows a duality. The song is saying the husband (after the death) and the wife (before the suicide) are both taking pills. He hates coping with her loss, and she hates coping with her depression, cause she truthfully just wants to let go.
And the last line is self explanatory.
The main story is basically, lady is depressed, her husband is trying to help her. Her own mental state mocks her. She calls a suicide hotline because she can’t take it anymore, the suicide hotline puts her on hold and hangs up on her multiple times. By the time the suicide hotline calls her back, she’s already committed suicide.
The husband is trying to cope with this loss.
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this song is about a women, in 2016 who called a suicide hotline. the hotline put her on hold for 2 hours and 18 minutes and when they called back she had already committed. “hoarder of quarters” means she loved collecting quarters, and “someday i will go outside and see her okay” means she loved collecting quarters off the street. this women was his girlfriend.
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This song has a good vibe and is so catchy…. Until you know what it means….
Meaning:
According to the most popular interpretation, the person singing in Baby Hotline loves someone who died; he’s now trying to process the loss. Some of the lines seem to refer to the dead person’s issues in life. The “baby hotline” symbolizes a connection that the singer keeps attempting to stay in contact with the loved one, but it doesn’t seem to work, and at some point, the protagonist will need to accept it.
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