 so people are really happy by the time i arrive because they get rid of you you know uh and in fact to be completely honest i'd never even seen a marlon brando film when i wrote that song you know but at the time i wrote it it was based off you know kind of popular greeting cards that were in stores at the time that had images of brando from the wild one or streetcar named desire or whatever you know and it was just like he was an iconographic figure of the of the cinema