This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control and gain power, depicting a cautionary tale against falling into their traps. It encourages us to question the narratives presented to us and remain vigilant against manipulation in various parts of society.
a man should die gaunt,
and not bloated and overdone,
there should be new words hidden,
in the shadows on his face,
and like a wine glass, in a perfect pitch, he breaks,
we're being dumped into order out of buckets of sea salt,
what was the first condiment?
but always one rose grows though a littered lot of gravel,
or we're struck dumb and doomed when it doesn't
flowers are how plants laugh,
and not by joke or to ridicule,
i never saw my parents,
try to make a thing like me
in time in the bathroom mirror,
i learned to accept my body.
i got jumped into living by a coven of midwives,
under a dracula-caped eclipse,
like cutting through watermelon meat with a wire,
you shoot sick from the hip and never miss.
all the things inside me i assume,
are doing what they need to be doing,
and always one rose grows though a littered lot of gravel,
or we're struck dumb and doomed when it doesn't.
always one rose grows though a littered lot of gravel,
or we're struck dumb and doomed when it doesn't.
looks like a sky for shoeing horses under..
looks like a sky, of some kind
and not bloated and overdone,
there should be new words hidden,
in the shadows on his face,
and like a wine glass, in a perfect pitch, he breaks,
we're being dumped into order out of buckets of sea salt,
what was the first condiment?
but always one rose grows though a littered lot of gravel,
or we're struck dumb and doomed when it doesn't
flowers are how plants laugh,
and not by joke or to ridicule,
i never saw my parents,
try to make a thing like me
in time in the bathroom mirror,
i learned to accept my body.
i got jumped into living by a coven of midwives,
under a dracula-caped eclipse,
like cutting through watermelon meat with a wire,
you shoot sick from the hip and never miss.
all the things inside me i assume,
are doing what they need to be doing,
and always one rose grows though a littered lot of gravel,
or we're struck dumb and doomed when it doesn't.
always one rose grows though a littered lot of gravel,
or we're struck dumb and doomed when it doesn't.
looks like a sky for shoeing horses under..
looks like a sky, of some kind
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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"'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."
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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."
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I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
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Oh man, the shout out to a sky for shoeing horses under makes me shiver.
Personally, I'm not too into the sound of the new album and I feel that the songs on this album are less personal and emotional than both Alopecia and Elephant Eyelash. That being said, One Rose is my favorite or second favorite song from Eskimo Snow. I think that Yoni wrote this song to explain how he feels that he doesn't fit in with society and has trouble relating to those around him. He feels as though something must be physically wrong with him that causes this separation between him and others but he can't distinguish what that is as shown with the line "all the things inside me i assume, are doing what they need to be doing." Yoni ends the song with "looks like a sky for shoeing horses under..looks like a sky, of some kind" which refers back to the song from Alopecia. In A Sky for Shoeing Horses Under, this line essentially means to give up and to move on. In that song, Yoni was referring to moving on in his musical career away from cLOUDDEAD. Yoni returns to the same idea and applies the same concept in this song; however, in One Rose Yoni is dealing with his life in general particularly his youth and his uncertainty of how to go about life. He debates whether or not to go on with life in a world where he feels misunderstood or to end it all in suicide.
I'd beg to differ about the album being less personal and emotional than earlier work. It is by far his most confessional and emotional songwriting to date. <br /> <br /> Let's consider the title of the album "Eskimo Snow" and it's relationship to the titular lyric: "All my words for sadness, like Eskimo snow". He's playing off of the belief that Eskimo's have hundreds of words for snow as a metaphor for album's hundreds of words exploring his depression, fears, anxieties and insecurities. Quite brilliant, imho.<br /> <br /> But let's not stop there. Below is an excerpt from every song to back up my previously stated belief:<br /> <br /> "These hands are my father's hands but smaller, soaked in paint thinner til they're so dry coming together they make a shril sound like two moving tires touching, hide nothing."<br /> <br /> "now my bike tires flat, i must have run over some glass in the dark, or it might have got slashed cause I was messing around with someone's ex-girlfriend again"<br /> <br /> "oh am i too concerned with the burn of scrutiny[...]will i gain weight in later life and when will someone swing a scythe against me!"<br /> <br /> "my true purpose which i will have taken the care to have kept hidden even from myself my whole life"<br /> <br /> "i wish i could feel close to somebody but i don't feel nothing. now they say i need to quit doing all this random ffff-[...]and i know saying all this in public should make me feel funny, but ya gotta yell something out you'd never tell nobody."<br /> <br /> "in time in the bathroom mirror i learned to accept my body."<br /> <br /> "The rat that's caught in the ribs of me will be released within the year"<br /> <br /> "Will this new year's see my rotting hair's release? Will my new black book pull the sick from my deepest creases?"<br /> <br /> "i wanna speak at an intimate decibel with the precision of an infinite decimal; to listen up and send back a true echo of something forever felt but never heard. i want that sharpened steel of truth in every word"<br /> <br /> "Then I'm still here. Bearing my watery fruits if fruits at all. Then I'm still here. Barely understanding what truth that rarely calls."
The whole song is about one's worth and society's perception of it, and how distorted and inertly and inherently it is measured and used (under the assumption that no absolute worth of any human can be measured)
It starts with losing dignity in old age by trying to stay young (hear Act Five for Yoni's views on age), and than, establishing that natural course is much more adequate (new words in shadows of his face - something to learn from the elderly) and elegant (wine glass - very elegant, perfect pitch - inevitable cause for death: AGE).
"Dumped into order" - as soon as we get born we are put into place... "buckets of sea salt" new age ways of baby delivery maybe? In a tub at home in salt water and new age stuff like that... "What was the first condiment (blood)" - we started our life by "sucking" blood, who cares about delivery methods (you just swallow the cold and follow your breath until death - Gemini - Birthday Song)...
Great people often get overshadowed and suffocated by the mass and ruggedness of the average masses, and sometimes they withstand, but sometimes they dont... and it is sad, but true.
"Flowers are how plants laugh, and not by joke or the ridicule" means that smart and good people don't express themselves in spite of others, but because it's what they are... beautiful. He never saw his parents try to make him what he made of himself, because he made himself worthy and great. Bathroom mirror shows the contrast of beautiful interior and weird exterior, two world that need to be connected some way...
"jumped into living" - whether he likes it or not
"Under a dracula caped eclipse"... off into bloodsucking world, healthy baby, off you go...
"like cutting watermelon meat with a wire" meaning with such ease and suggesting abortion, "you shoot sick from the hip and never miss" - from the hip meaning skillfully and routinely, shoot sick and never miss meaning killing an unworthy potential member of society...
"all the things inside me..." meaning guess i was and am worthy...
Before "this is a sky for shoeing horses under" I thing he rhythmically sighs "suff-o-cate"
Sorry for typos, was very tired while writing this... And yep, those are just things that come to MY mind when I try to catch the meaning of Yoni's words.
"this song is easily the worst song on the album, if not the worst why? song ever."
Seriously? In the Shadows of My Embrace, One Rose, and On Rose Walk Insomniac are my early favorites off the album (only listened to it once). One Rose is awesome. I love the beginning of it. It sounds nothing like the usual Why? weirdness, but it's great.
The sky for shoeing horses under part im pretty sure is refering to suicide. According to the song from Alopecia, "sky for shoeing horses under," it ends as, "looks like a good sky to die under.
Does anybody actually understand the shoeing horses thing? I understand that it's referring to that song when he mentions it in this, but what does it mean?<br /> <br /> What kind of sky makes one say "oh, this is a sky for shoeing horses under?" Is that some other old expression I didn't know about, like "mouthing watermelon"?
I assume "mouthing watermelon" is the phrase film makers used to make background characters say so it looked like they were talking.<br /> <br /> If you apply that to the song's context... it makes sense..<br /> <br /> I think the "shoeing horses under" refers to suicide, in a vague way. Kind of like pushing your problems away. If you think about it, I'm sure herding horses is difficult, as is suicide, and a very burdensome task. But it's pushing problems aside? Just analyzing since nobody else is.
"i never saw my parents, try to make a thing like me in time in the bathroom mirror, i learned to accept my body." This line was used before in the Odd Nosdam song "Kill Tone Two"
good call!
I am almost sure that there's answer to "what was the the first condiment"... I hear "blood" in the background.
...Or we/re struck dumb and doomed when it doesn/t.
Brilliant.
I believe the sky for shoeing horses line is referring to an ugly rainy day as that would be a perfect day to bring a horse into the stables to shoe it.
I actually really like this. But then again I like everything Yoni does.