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"
Wasting time home alone dotting your I's
Peanut butter pudding surprise!
Ain't nobody care what's going on in your mind
But they got they eye on your prize
I'm highly suspicious of you
Now daddy's got you home alone- solving your crimes
Peanut butter pudding surprise!
Ain't no jokin, smokin, strokin, tapping your lines
Peanut butter pudding surprise!
I'm highly suspicious of you
Wasting all your time on drama, could be solving real crime
Waste away your mind too
I'm highly suspicious of you
I'm highly suspicious, highly suspicious of you
Peanut butter pudding surprise!
Ain't nobody care what's going on in your mind
But they got they eye on your prize
I'm highly suspicious of you
Now daddy's got you home alone- solving your crimes
Peanut butter pudding surprise!
Ain't no jokin, smokin, strokin, tapping your lines
Peanut butter pudding surprise!
I'm highly suspicious of you
Wasting all your time on drama, could be solving real crime
Waste away your mind too
I'm highly suspicious of you
I'm highly suspicious, highly suspicious of you
Lyrics submitted by Jurassic Parker
Highly Suspicious Lyrics as written by James Edward Olliges Jr.
Lyrics © Hipgnosis Songs Group
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How could you concider yourself a big fan and not allow the band to do their thing? Yes, this song is quite different, but I can't get enough of it. It's what makes mmj so great, theyre more than just another rock band.
and how can you complain about Jim Jame's falsetto?
I love this song. I was high when I first heard it and loved it then, just as I do now. I think this song is incredibly fun. I have no idea what it's about but hey, peanut butter pudding surprise!
it's not ;)
Yeah, I have no idea what this song means. I don't really think I want to know what a peanut butter pudding surprise is tho..
i heard this song on the radio a couple times, and i never knew who it was. to be honest, i thought it was prince for a while. then i bought the cd, simply because mmj is a solid band and i wanted to hear what they were up to these days, and i flipped my shit when i heard this song on the cd.
that aside, this song reminds me of getting fucked up, the "tapping your lines" bit especially. and then the bit about "wasting all your time on drama, could be solving real crimes" reminds me of how pointless and counterproductive the war on drugs [especially marijuana] is. not to mention the references to shit going on in people's heads.
and if THAT didn't give it away, listen to jim's vocals when the backup vocals start "highly suspicious"ing. jim james never actually says "highly suspicious." "i'm hiiiighh [highly suspicious of you]" he's just saying he's high. then, before the solo or whatever, he says "i'm hiiiiiighhhh" and goes into a fit of laughter.
and i'm not one of those people who thinks every song is about drugs. seems to me that most of the songs on Evil Urges are actually about sex.
oh, and if you think this is "such a crappy song," why don't you listen to the guitars, dipshit?
dude half his songs are in falsetto just not so extreme. besides this song fuckin rocks
First thing MMJ is the shiznitlecracklepopopbangboom.
second this song is about the Gov. bush admin. and possibly getting high. think about it.
First thing MMJ is the shiznitlecracklepopopbangboom.
second this song is about the Gov. bush admin. and possibly getting high. think about it.
@balpo - "dot your i's" means to make sure you take care of all your loose ends, like a teacher telling her students to literally make sure they have all their letter i's dotted before they turn in their work,
The song's definitely about a drug-induced paranoid freakout and the "highly suspicious" parts are meant to be like British Constables pounding at the door, either in reality or in the person's head. I'm not the biggest fan of the song compared to the rest of their catalogue but it is different, I'll give them that.