Someone on Songmeanings suggests that this song is about incest. I don't get that from it, but then again, music is all about interpretation (like religious texts) and I suppose if you want to read incest into it, you can. Specifically he states "redefine a perfect function" is what strikes him as particularly incestuous.

At that rate it could be a song about an attempt to re-program Pac-Man that ended disasterously when the ghosts burst out of the machine and started following the programmers around everywhere. Doesn't that make even more sense?

Toadies have been one of my favorite bands for a long time. I was turned onto "Possum Kingdom" when I was fourteen or so by a girl from the internet who used it to describe her horny world view and from that point on I was hooked. Rubberneck was full of the angsty and sinister kind of music that I thirsted for at that point: fast-paced angry guitar rave-ups with vocalist Todd Lewis screaming "You hurt me you bitch!" over and over again; a mixture of religious themes (Backslider), relationships gone horribly awry (Tyler), or just simply crazy schizoid pieces of music that jump all over the place (Mister Love). I was transfixed.

Eventually they released a second album that was largely "feh" and then broke up. They recently reunited (minus original chick bassist) and released an album that I still haven't managed to listen to. It's OK: Toadies are one of those bands that exist almost solely on the strength of their earlier work, when they were young and crazy and weren't yet jaded by the professional recording industry that turned away their first attempt at their second record, back when Todd Lewis was still a kid and was a victim of the kinetic energy of angsty youth.

Luckily they released enough good music in that period to still be legendary.