A small ass town where everybody knows everything, where you think you want to leave as soon as you get out of school but you come to find out its the only place that truely feels like home and after being gone for so long you always want to go back to it.

A phrase to describe someone who is cognitively degenerating. Synonym of "going off the deep end". Can have varying degrees of severity.

Reference to the song "Hey You" by Pink Floyd. The line "and the worms ate into his brain" makes no sense in an otherwise linear and literal narration throughout the lyrics.