Holes To Heaven Lyrics
This song takes me to another place.
Also, it's "The next morning we woke up mad to the 7hour drive There we were stuck in Port Blaire Where boats break and children stare."
It doesn't seem like hes singing about childhood or growing up i recon hes signing about coming from a developed country to a "developing" country shows that science has given us too much to think about.
When he says there were so many fewer questions he means that noone really cared what was up there when noone knew what was up there. Hes signing about generations ago and how his experience in that counrty bought him closer to those times.
I thought the same thing when i heard the song. I didn't think it was so much about growing up as it was about the acquisition of knowledge in general... Centuries ago, when the masses still believed that stars had some heavenly connection, there was much less to worry about. He's wondering if where we are now is truly "better" than back then, all things considered. That could be interpreted as wishing you were young again, but i think it has a wider meaning than that.
I thought the same thing when i heard the song. I didn't think it was so much about growing up as it was about the acquisition of knowledge in general... Centuries ago, when the masses still believed that stars had some heavenly connection, there was much less to worry about. He's wondering if where we are now is truly "better" than back then, all things considered. That could be interpreted as wishing you were young again, but i think it has a wider meaning than that.
thank you johnjackson, seems like people years ago just never got the song?
Yeah I agree, I think it's definitely about when civilization was younger(less developed) rather than when he was younger, and he's talking about how he's somewhat jealous that these people can live and not worry about things like what's in space
This is an awesome song....actually all Jack's songs are awesome!...by the way its "the bulls were running wild"
Also, it's "The next morning we woke up mad to the 7hour drive There we were stuck in Port Blaire Where boats break and children stare."
He has said that his one is about going on surf trips when he was younger with his friends
This song is about a trip JJ made to the Nicobar and Andaman Island chain of India, to surf and shoot Thicker than Water. They started in Batong, Thailand, then motored to the Islands, arriving in Port Blair, India. Thay had to bribe the officials with beer and other gifts to get visas to Nicobar. They travelled south, by boat, from Port Blair, spent a lot of time looking and waiting for surf, then returned to Port Blair with only a little bit of surfing under their belts.
To me this song is about Jack's frustration with the trip, the rough start to it, the hassles of Port Blair, lack of surf, etc. I picture Jack sitting on the boat writing this song, thinking how life was so easy when you were a kid and still thought starts were just the holes to heaven. Being an adult can be a headache, and this trip was no exception.
John
In response to BarbiErica1 comment about the lyrics, there are several versions of this song, and in one of them he does say "Well there we were in South Batong, Where Women are men and men go wrong", so ya...
The correct lyrics from the Album are:
The air was more than human And the heat was more than hungry And the cars were square and spitting diesel fumes The bulls were running wild because they're big and mean and sacred and the children playing cricket with no shoes The morning we woke up man To a seven-hour drive Well there we were stuck in Port Blair Where boats break and children stare
And there were so many fewer questions When stars were still just the holes to heaven, mmm Man and there were so many fewer questions When stars were still just the holes to heaven, mmm
Disembarking from the port with no mistakes of any so Moving southly engine running smooth Officials were quite friendly once we drown them w/ our sweet talk and we bribed them w/ our cigerettes and booze The next morning we woke up man w/ the sunrise to right moving back north to port blair where boats break and children stare
And there were so many fewer questions When stars were still just the holes to heaven, mmm and there were so many fewer questions When stars were still just the holes to heaven, mmm