With the exception of the choruses and occasional bridges, the track is mostly a spoken word narration about a made-up person's life in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after winning a first-class one-way airplane ticket to the city.
"[1] The lyrics were too long to include in the liner notes for the album (it ends mid-sentence and goes into a written apology by Yankovic), saying that the listener will have to figure them out for themselves.
[3] The song begins with Al talking about a traumatic childhood, living "in a box under the stairs in the corner of a basement half a block down the street from Jerry's Bait Shop (You know the place)" and being force-fed sauerkraut by his mother for his own health until he turned 26½ years old.
Enraged, Al swears that he'll leave his mother's place, and by chance, wins a radio contest on the very next day, with the grand prize being a first-class one-way ticket to Albuquerque, New Mexico.
When performing this song live in Canada, Al is known to replace the dream job at Sizzler with one at Tim Hortons,[5] a Canadian doughnut shop.
[6] The 2004 video game Doom 3 contains a thin reference to the song - an email in one of the in-game PDAs mentions a character whose arms and legs were dismembered by the "Albuquerck Capacitor", therefore giving him the nickname "Torso Boy".