Sun set and sun rise is my own personal light show.
Flipping switches...moving from basin bottoms to plateaus.
The Earth...manipulates itself beneath me.
I stand still...stagnate. Can't kill...this lagged state.

Life...manipulates itself around me,
but I'm dead still.
Upright...
but dead still.
Word is still born...I will not stoop to the level of the stoop that y'all chill on
If the building's boarded up and the children of the corn-
er Liquor Store don't want to kick it no more...
because holes have filled the wall, sneakers are scuffed & toes have become sore.

I saw y'all walk from the hood of tough luck.
Yeah, if these walls could talk they wouldn't shut the fuck up.

Jump in your pick up truck. Drive from the mountain range.
Cash the chips in on your shoulder, cut your losses, die young, count the change.
How strange...you think these clouds look lovely?
Smoke signals...manipulate themselves above me.
No symbols...are below me enough to overlook.
I know you read my every move, I wrote the book.

Mind not the blemishes that are on my premise. Endlessness is my "to be continued..."
Notice the nervousness in my footnotes when being interviewed,
shaking uncontrollably. "How you doing?" "Not bad...how about you?"
Brought it right back to me like "What've you been up to?"

I DON'T TALK TO FREAKS. I even ignore my neighbors who live down the stairs.
I WALK THE STREETS. And they don't know that I'm famous in 2000 years,
So I say shit loud in their ears and I spit a wretched verse in their face...
Disrespecting their personal space.
In a split second, curtains and drapes get closed.
They think they've shut me out, but I can see their ugly mouth in the shape of "O"s.
I'd break their windows with a stone that has a note attatched
that says "I hate Jim Crow, and here's a poem to let you know the haps:"

"I've got a golden axe and I chop cherry trees down.
Dead to this world. Bury me now."

I am from a distant place that sits and waits for my belated time to come
but its too late I've missed my fate. I "F" with the deaf, blind and dumb.
My father taught me one thing...how to fire a gun.
I don't bother...this is survival for fun.

I have become the most sinister sin city clicker
cynical dim witted trixter
critical shit grinning hipster
Whisper...to my earhole...tell me not to be fearful.
Be careful
not to make any...sudden...movements.
Show me your sole...I like to study shoe prints.

You've stepped to me before! I can recognize them stubby toes!
I left them guys with bloody clothes. For a second time...nobody knows
The pain I've seen. Nobody knows the pain I've seen. Nobody knows why I've got a bloody nose or how they made it bleed.

Chorus:

Climb trees...go out on a limb/
to find me...forget about him/
Forget about hymns...what are those psalms that you sing/
What are those songs that are in your head echoing...

I am not here to make a change. I break chains. I break dance moves and move Strange.
Strange Famous is infamous for inflammatory mission statements.
Living in basements with subterranean secret service agents.
With little patience. A pediatrician who hate kids.
Women's lib is getting choked to death by their own baby bibs.
Lady, did you know I love women who hate mankind?
I talk about it all the damn time....keep it comin' HUH!!!

"IIIIIIIII HHHHAAAAAAAATE MEEEEEEEENNNNN"

This conversation is mine. I own all the stock in boring small talk,
And I've trade marked this facial expression called "gawk."
So fuck off. I dis functions souped by ninjas and hockey fights,
While discussion groups infringe upon my copyrights.
All them bitches want me tonight...I've been so great and respectful.
They only get salty when I bend them into the shape of a pretzel.
I make them flexible when I break their schedule. It only got hard...
When I asked 'em politely not to fight me and to give up...God
Damn...this is easier than I thought it would be.
They'll attend any party and not fight it as long as they're invited cordially.
Unfortunately, I've only got so many hundred openings.
But talk to me, I want to take you all under my broken wings.

Who's the right man for the job?!
Put up your hands y'all because I'm not tall enough to stand up to God.

Who's the right woman?! Throw up one hand...and wave it now


Lyrics submitted by exact

Climb Trees song meanings
Add Your Thoughts

2 Comments

sort form View by:
  • 0
    General Comment

    The anit-christ or a demon is on a soul searching mission. It kind of reminds me of the book "The Screwtape Letters" by C.S Lewis. Good read by the way. Genius song by Sage Francis aka Strange Famous. You have to be able to listen to grasp the concepts of Sage's lyrics. SO SHUT UP AND LISTEN!!!!! J.J MiC

    J.J MiCon December 20, 2005   Link

Add your thoughts

Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.

Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!

More Featured Meanings

Album art
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Led Zeppelin
This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
Album art
Cajun Girl
Little Feat
Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve. The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future. Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere" The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Album art
Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988. "'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it." "There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
Album art
Punchline
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran sings about missing his former partner and learning important life lessons in the process on “Punchline.” This track tells a story of battling to get rid of emotions for a former lover, whom he now realized might not have loved him the same way. He’s now caught between accepting that fact and learning life lessons from it and going back to beg her for another chance.
Album art
Head > Heels
Ed Sheeran
“Head > Heels” is a track that aims to capture what it feels like to experience romance that exceeds expectations. Ed Sheeran dedicates his album outro to a lover who has blessed him with a unique experience that he seeks to describe through the song’s nuanced lyrics.