Talking of elephants, there's the old Indian story of the 'Blind Men & The Elephant' - which is about a number of blind men each having a feel of a different part of an elephant and each coming to a different conclusion as to what it & therefore the whole is.
This is one reason I esp like both the Stoonz's lyrics and Jigger's singing style - the way multiple interpretations can result / are allowed and why I'm not too keen on lyrics being printed in the initial packaging accompanying albums (such as with 'A Bigger Bong'). Didn't Jogger once say that it's only necessary for one in three words to be heard clearly when singing? Also, many Stoonz songs seem to develop from recordings in which Jiggler sings vowel sounds as a way of developing a lyric, making up for the fact that lyrics are incomplete and as a way of 'conducting' the band.
Gawd knows what exactly he's crooning during the original Monserrat take of Sad Sad Sad -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RnjZ6qO0YA - but there are multiple differences from the released version.
Anyway, Bitch, I didn't mean to undercut what your ear-holes hear or your bwain gets from hearing 'Sad Sad Sad'. Apologies if it came over this way. I just wanted to add a thoughtlette into the mix.
However, if the lyric is indeed 'elephant in the room', wiouldn't this be more likely to be referring to a young lady's father rather than their hubby?
It still sounds like 'infant in the bedroom' to me, but maybe that's partly because I was amused to read that both Marsha H and Jerry H said that Jangler was 'annoyed' at some point by them breast-feeding at the expense of paying attention to him. Trick cyclists might (arrogantly?) claim that this partly derived from childhood issues concerning young bro Chris' arrival on the scene. I wouldn't mention this if MJ hadn't claimed (in the '70s) that he's a Freudian.
Sorry to have rattled on but I'm the sort of person who can see seven or more layers of meaning and irony in even 'Let's Work'.
Happy days.