Just a Little Bit seems pretty crazy, but I'm thinking that it's about a "bit" as in a computer bit (1 or 0). And that you the user, shouldn't blame this little bit for all your problems, because you are the incompetent one, not the bit.
This line...
"No, I never quit
I was cleared from work
I'm not the jerk
getting paid"
I take that to mean something like...
"I'm a bit, so I never choose to stop working. Some guy (computer operator) chose not to use me (programmer perhaps), so don't blame me for your problems. It's the human who is still to blame."
Another line which makes me think someone is "blaming the bit" for their problems...
"I'm not a hypocrite
You need to think twice
To reduce the price
a percent"
That could mean somebody is trying to get his/her spreadsheet right and the numbers they are coming up with aren't what they want. Again, don't blame the bit, it doesn't lie.
"I'd seen her just the other week, but now we're in a fight"
I believe that the "her" is a user here.
Then as she performed some kinda operation, perhaps a "ctrl-X" or Cut or even the physical process of accessing data, this little bit barely escaped "between the eights"
Eight bits = one byte.
The last verse throws me, I don't know what the hell is going on there. "Ice into the scorching sun"???
Escaping the heat probably means the heat of the hardware itself, the internals of a PC, but I'm not sure.
That's my take...now that all my dorkdom is out in the open,
am I right on any of those points Ron?
If I am this song has a very good point, and even though I'm a software engineer, I fall into this same type of thing. But, I try to blame the people manipulating the bits and not the bits themselves. Damn MS and XP SP2
