This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Oh, Pappy left a chair like he's still sittin' there
Once I almost saw him make his move
Brave Indian who never changes his mood
In a painting on the wall right there
Oh, how long 'til the morning wakes
Oh, how long 'til the medicine takes
Oh, Sally buffalo in the apartment just below
Just a bein' without a care
Oh, children from my brood they come and bring me food
Maybe open up a window for air
Oh, just now I smell the cornbread bake
Oh, now, now, now I feel the medicine take
Just like home
Where the stray dogs go through it all
Still right here, still just here,
Brave little friend
Well, we got a party goin' on many spirits strong
Ain't preacher just a happy to meet ya
Half a bottle 'neath the bed keep our spirits fed
My hat's off to you, to you and you
And now our brave friends, too, dancing circles through the room
And a broom and a radio and a twistin out a dos-e-do
Brand new day, the whole world's goin'
Whole room's goin' so
Just now, don't hesitate (hesitate)
Oh, taste the morning break (morning break)
Sweet, sweet, young honeycomb (honeycomb)
On, now, now, now just like home (just like home)
Oh, just like, just like home
Where the stray dogs go
Oh, oh, rest my bones
Like a fresh skipped stone to it all
Still right here, still just here,
Still just here, brave, brave friend
Once I almost saw him make his move
Brave Indian who never changes his mood
In a painting on the wall right there
Oh, how long 'til the morning wakes
Oh, how long 'til the medicine takes
Oh, Sally buffalo in the apartment just below
Just a bein' without a care
Oh, children from my brood they come and bring me food
Maybe open up a window for air
Oh, just now I smell the cornbread bake
Oh, now, now, now I feel the medicine take
Just like home
Where the stray dogs go through it all
Still right here, still just here,
Brave little friend
Well, we got a party goin' on many spirits strong
Ain't preacher just a happy to meet ya
Half a bottle 'neath the bed keep our spirits fed
My hat's off to you, to you and you
And now our brave friends, too, dancing circles through the room
And a broom and a radio and a twistin out a dos-e-do
Brand new day, the whole world's goin'
Whole room's goin' so
Just now, don't hesitate (hesitate)
Oh, taste the morning break (morning break)
Sweet, sweet, young honeycomb (honeycomb)
On, now, now, now just like home (just like home)
Oh, just like, just like home
Where the stray dogs go
Oh, oh, rest my bones
Like a fresh skipped stone to it all
Still right here, still just here,
Still just here, brave, brave friend
Lyrics submitted by SuperKind311
Blue Indian Lyrics as written by Hermann Bell
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this is by far my favorite wsp song. this is my take on it: he's on the road, traveling, touring whatever and is homesick. he thinks of these memories (pappy, sally), trying to get through the day (waiting for morning) and uses drugs to escape (medicine). smelling the cornbread bake = he's starting to get high then in goes "still right here, brave friend": that's his conscience or whatever telling him "you're still not at home, even though you feel good, brave little friend: him, for taking these chances with drugs for nothing so then he's all fucked up and partying and is happy with all these other people who are "self-medicating" for loneliness or unhappiness...or whatever then morning comes, and everyone always feels better in the morning cause it's a fresh start, new day, etc., but he's "still right here"
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This song was inspired by Todd Nance regarding a painting of he saw of an old indian with no expression on his face.
It is laced with meaning, though.
I feel the beauty of songs, and art in general, is that despite the intended meaning of the artist the song can take new meanig through others interpretations
It seems to me that this song is about a old, or sick dying man on his death bed. The morning being his impending death.
"Oh, Sally buffalo in the apartment just below a bein' without a care Oh, children from my brood they come and bring me food Maybe open up a window for air"
I think this is talking about his children visiting him caring for him, but not providing much else for him.
I think all music is what you yourself get out of it and everyone has different feelings but from the artist point of view I think it's him saying that hes in a familiar place and sees something he really loves and hes thinking about life and what comes next and the medicine is a drug or music or his friends anything that makes him happy or keeps his mind off his worries and as he escapes he hears the beautifull people go about life and has friends or nice people bring him stuff or come visit him and then he might try something new today and hes got a party going on where everything is ok and he will stay true to what he is and belives now everyone is having fun and he sees is at home where he belongs but he will still take any chance to do someting new if it comes the next day and explore his mind as he knows life is grand and just as the feeling of true happness
Here's what I see. Someone lying in bed waiting to die.
His children come cook for him and bring him food.
"Oh, children from my brood they come and bring me food Maybe open up a window for air"
The morphine pump.
"Oh, just now I smell the cornbread bake Oh, now, now, now I feel the medicine take"
He's being fed through an IV bottle
"Half a bottle 'neath the bed keep our spirits fed My hat's off to you, to you and you"
The spirits are here wanting to take him away
"And now our brave friends, too, dancing circles through the room And a broom and a radio and a twistin out a dos-e-do"
He's ready to go
"Oh, just like, just like home Where the stray dogs go Oh, oh, rest my bones Like a fresh skipped stone to it all"
But his time did not come yet...he is still there
"Still right here, still just here, Still just here, brave, brave friend"
Very nice, Jughead. This is much the same meaning I got from it as well. I see the title came from the painting to which LeadReporter refers, but mostly I get the sense it's about an old grandpa in the flat upstairs. Nice song.
I Always think he's waiting for his trip to kick in, the party is the show, then u peak and get a little scared then JB sooths u and lets us know he'll always b there
Ever notice they always wait until RIGHT when the "medicine is about to take" (peak) to sing this? Gets us Spread Heads moving.