@[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.
I've always been behind you
So I think we should meet
I've sharpened my knives
So I'm gonna use them
Oh, baby
Oh, lalalala
I'm gonna smother you with my love
Forever and ever, also forever
Acid and poison and chemicals baby
Is what I mean to provide
I know together, we'll make the possible
Totally impossible
Lalalalalala-luh
If you want me I'm yours
And even if you don't want me
I'm trained and licensed and armed to the teeth
I think you'll agree
It's so hard to apologize
So I'm just gonna skip it
Sleep deprivation will make you a million
Did you just hear something crazy?
I got my fingers crossed you'll catch something baby
Cause I just threw myself at you
Everyone run and hide
I'm coming to find you
Is my face still bleeding?
Then what is your problem?
By the skin of my teeth
That's how I'm going to drive you
Muh-muh-muh-muh-muh
LSD and a bloody pile of rags (Hey)
I hate to be the bearer of bad news
But I am
But I am
But I am
So I think we should meet
I've sharpened my knives
So I'm gonna use them
Oh, baby
Oh, lalalala
I'm gonna smother you with my love
Forever and ever, also forever
Acid and poison and chemicals baby
Is what I mean to provide
I know together, we'll make the possible
Totally impossible
Lalalalalala-luh
If you want me I'm yours
And even if you don't want me
I'm trained and licensed and armed to the teeth
I think you'll agree
It's so hard to apologize
So I'm just gonna skip it
Sleep deprivation will make you a million
Did you just hear something crazy?
I got my fingers crossed you'll catch something baby
Cause I just threw myself at you
Everyone run and hide
I'm coming to find you
Is my face still bleeding?
Then what is your problem?
By the skin of my teeth
That's how I'm going to drive you
Muh-muh-muh-muh-muh
LSD and a bloody pile of rags (Hey)
I hate to be the bearer of bad news
But I am
But I am
But I am
Lyrics submitted by DeadEndFriend, edited by Txredhead
Interlude With Ludes Lyrics as written by Josh Homme John Baldwin
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after listening to the song and researching the drug 'ludes' i think it's pretty clear that josh is the voice of the drug speaking to the person taking it, probably himself. He mentions always being behind you, and smothing you with my love but then goes on to say acid poison and chemicals will be used, suggesting he is the drug, and how 'i'm yours even if you don't want me' suggests he has no choice but to take this drug and the fact that it's used to treat sleep deprivation he says 'sleep deprivation will make you a million..' the drug being the million.
@bumbaklatious I think I agree with you and also with WPSIATWIN. I think the drug is "speaking" to Josh, but that Josh may have gotten in too deep with drugs altogether, causing him to act really weird, and do crazy stuff (see TCV interview where Dave and JPJ are laughing at Josh being on "6 different drugs"). <br /> <br /> Perhaps it got to the point that Josh was using, but didn't really want to be--or maybe he could see how it was messing up his life--but was more or less trapped in using chemicals to alter his reality more than he should have.<br /> <br /> I take "sleep deprivation will make you a million" to mean that maybe he was working so hard on the band, writing music and lyrics in order to "make a million" that he was becoming sleep deprived...so he was taking ludes and other drugs, but they only made him hear things ("did you just hear something crazy?"), as well as doing stuff that would get him into trouble, like not being emotionally present--not apologizing when it was necessary; or getting into situations that caused his face to bleed...yet he still took LSD. <br /> <br /> I think the drugs are telling him:<br /> Acid and poison and chemicals baby<br /> Is what I mean to provide<br /> I know together, we'll make the possible (potential success)<br /> Totally impossible (he'll become a loser, doing nothing if he <br /> keeps taking so many drugs)<br /> I hate to be the bearer of bad news (that drugs can ruin your life)<br /> But I am (because...it's the truth)