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”
Smack dab in the middle of the cuddles and kills,
guerilla jimmy city limits with a bucket of pills
hollring 'no I don't immediately ameliorate 'em.
I meet 'em, greet 'em, read 'em, and rate 'em, see if I hate 'em.'
El-P
Here come the hard rock bump through the speaker top.
The tweeter meter blew code def hones in.
I pack a lunchbox, walk to the stoning,
jump into the chemicals sold in my zoning.
I'm irrational, paranoid, tragic.
And the button on my chest says 'panic'.
Punch it, hold up, don't touch me.
I'm a savage from a rabid ass country.
Camu Tao
Who want to get it?
You all acquitted.
You need to quit it.
Getting evicted, you little idiot, pitching tickets.
It's sorta tricky the way you wanna go get your digits.
Body you up at the party, somebody get his mistress.
Aesop Rock
You take a pitch black lung and a purple heart,
then you kick back once the inertia start.
And when the shipwreck sunk through the perfect dark,
the serpent's arch alerts every circled shark.
See, bloody salt water sounds the h'ors d'oeuvres alarm,
and when the first arm's found we observe the art.
Like a belly-acher won't kick face to the curb,
rather kick when the face already raped by the worms.
El-P
Tasmanian pain coast, ridin'.
Very little to say to these politician behind it but this:
you better loosen the noose or lose livin'.
These little kids walking the ave. quick to produce a biscuit.
Camu Tao
Now you should medicate any area that the pain hits.
And when you in the streets you should peep the sets of strangers.
The actors that are in fact a cast of chaos.
They be looking for any situation they can play on.
Respectively injecting these thoughts, detain us.
Negative speaking, they be creeping, they entertainers.
When you out of data they run through a route that'll save ya.
In retrospect, infect and pressing your papers.
El-P
I design kill pain cave penmanship.
Federal analog hog unedited.
With a CUNY degree in young numbness.
Angels on the rooftop, gun in they trumpets.
Aesop Rock
I was buried to the neck in them all-start bloopers.
Periscope down, hop Boss Hog cruiser.
Porcelain or pewter authority wil be over ruled the second jukie uber alles news hit the sewers.
CHORUS
Rickety Rackety.
This city fit my style exactly.
With a backspin, and the fat laces, Gazelle glasses, chase rap daily.
Rickety Rackety, this city fit my style exactly.
Near the train tracks, in the garbage bags, where the cement cracks, we a part of that.
Camu Tao
When you take 2 to the vein, introduce 2 to the brain.
You don't get used to the pain. A maniac bruising the cage.
When cats rush you in the public you be like 'do it again'.
He's a motherfucking bloodsucker, he can do what he can.
El-P
On the side of the block, do the bus stop.
You paying a fare?
That's a trust fund.
Little ugly ass duck, life's a fun fuck.
Too battered to rush, I walk punch drunk.
And the whole world is yours now.
Before the steppers are goosed kick your door down.
I'm in the getaway whip with Aes Rizzle.
He got the same shit stitched in his missles.
Aesop Rock
O.k. lefty field... stealth.
Dressed to kill... self.
Megawatt with a horizontal neck spin swim funny to vertical bobble head yes men.
Camu Tao
When the evil falls in it draws to the pours, it gnaws to the core.
It's precedented that you represented a percentage that wasn't vintage and the crawlers hate us,
you automated, we brought the flavors, niggas you ought to hate us.
El-P
And even from antagonity squad the family tissue.
Testify the look of my eyes, genuine issue.
I'm a freak in the flesh that penetrates lust.
Spray the vaginal juices, like I was up in their undies.
Aesop Rock
Don't picket the misfit law, Nancy.
The core's no picnic.
Mislead whores advancing.
No business.
Insist lured with candy to cure citizen x with that all-rours dancing.
Corporals landing ashore, all soar boned nitwit, rickety rackety porn fancy.
Weave through the hell and high water hot zone,
diseases in the minute the idiot got home.
Camu Tao
Now I'm a teacher, 1st grade, and I want to participate.
I want to grade the papers but I don't want to give them A's.
O.k. F, D, F-, test time, set timers, call every parent and give 'em a piece of my mind, shit.
Cuz I don't want to give a good future, I'll shoot ya.
Shoot ya?
With an Uzi filled with rulers.
Fuck minors, flush minds.
Even leaving 'em bruised up.
Stack kids, pack cute lunches in the cooler.
CHORUS
Rickety Rackety.
This city fit my style exactly.
Near the fire ladder, where the wires gather, drink water, eat fish, smile after.
Rickety Rackety, this pussy fit my dick exactly.
With a threesome, giving treatment, sex on drugs, girl you can't keep up.
guerilla jimmy city limits with a bucket of pills
hollring 'no I don't immediately ameliorate 'em.
I meet 'em, greet 'em, read 'em, and rate 'em, see if I hate 'em.'
El-P
Here come the hard rock bump through the speaker top.
The tweeter meter blew code def hones in.
I pack a lunchbox, walk to the stoning,
jump into the chemicals sold in my zoning.
I'm irrational, paranoid, tragic.
And the button on my chest says 'panic'.
Punch it, hold up, don't touch me.
I'm a savage from a rabid ass country.
Camu Tao
Who want to get it?
You all acquitted.
You need to quit it.
Getting evicted, you little idiot, pitching tickets.
It's sorta tricky the way you wanna go get your digits.
Body you up at the party, somebody get his mistress.
Aesop Rock
You take a pitch black lung and a purple heart,
then you kick back once the inertia start.
And when the shipwreck sunk through the perfect dark,
the serpent's arch alerts every circled shark.
See, bloody salt water sounds the h'ors d'oeuvres alarm,
and when the first arm's found we observe the art.
Like a belly-acher won't kick face to the curb,
rather kick when the face already raped by the worms.
El-P
Tasmanian pain coast, ridin'.
Very little to say to these politician behind it but this:
you better loosen the noose or lose livin'.
These little kids walking the ave. quick to produce a biscuit.
Camu Tao
Now you should medicate any area that the pain hits.
And when you in the streets you should peep the sets of strangers.
The actors that are in fact a cast of chaos.
They be looking for any situation they can play on.
Respectively injecting these thoughts, detain us.
Negative speaking, they be creeping, they entertainers.
When you out of data they run through a route that'll save ya.
In retrospect, infect and pressing your papers.
El-P
I design kill pain cave penmanship.
Federal analog hog unedited.
With a CUNY degree in young numbness.
Angels on the rooftop, gun in they trumpets.
Aesop Rock
I was buried to the neck in them all-start bloopers.
Periscope down, hop Boss Hog cruiser.
Porcelain or pewter authority wil be over ruled the second jukie uber alles news hit the sewers.
CHORUS
Rickety Rackety.
This city fit my style exactly.
With a backspin, and the fat laces, Gazelle glasses, chase rap daily.
Rickety Rackety, this city fit my style exactly.
Near the train tracks, in the garbage bags, where the cement cracks, we a part of that.
Camu Tao
When you take 2 to the vein, introduce 2 to the brain.
You don't get used to the pain. A maniac bruising the cage.
When cats rush you in the public you be like 'do it again'.
He's a motherfucking bloodsucker, he can do what he can.
El-P
On the side of the block, do the bus stop.
You paying a fare?
That's a trust fund.
Little ugly ass duck, life's a fun fuck.
Too battered to rush, I walk punch drunk.
And the whole world is yours now.
Before the steppers are goosed kick your door down.
I'm in the getaway whip with Aes Rizzle.
He got the same shit stitched in his missles.
Aesop Rock
O.k. lefty field... stealth.
Dressed to kill... self.
Megawatt with a horizontal neck spin swim funny to vertical bobble head yes men.
Camu Tao
When the evil falls in it draws to the pours, it gnaws to the core.
It's precedented that you represented a percentage that wasn't vintage and the crawlers hate us,
you automated, we brought the flavors, niggas you ought to hate us.
El-P
And even from antagonity squad the family tissue.
Testify the look of my eyes, genuine issue.
I'm a freak in the flesh that penetrates lust.
Spray the vaginal juices, like I was up in their undies.
Aesop Rock
Don't picket the misfit law, Nancy.
The core's no picnic.
Mislead whores advancing.
No business.
Insist lured with candy to cure citizen x with that all-rours dancing.
Corporals landing ashore, all soar boned nitwit, rickety rackety porn fancy.
Weave through the hell and high water hot zone,
diseases in the minute the idiot got home.
Camu Tao
Now I'm a teacher, 1st grade, and I want to participate.
I want to grade the papers but I don't want to give them A's.
O.k. F, D, F-, test time, set timers, call every parent and give 'em a piece of my mind, shit.
Cuz I don't want to give a good future, I'll shoot ya.
Shoot ya?
With an Uzi filled with rulers.
Fuck minors, flush minds.
Even leaving 'em bruised up.
Stack kids, pack cute lunches in the cooler.
CHORUS
Rickety Rackety.
This city fit my style exactly.
Near the fire ladder, where the wires gather, drink water, eat fish, smile after.
Rickety Rackety, this pussy fit my dick exactly.
With a threesome, giving treatment, sex on drugs, girl you can't keep up.
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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
Cajun Girl
Little Feat
Little Feat
Holiday
Bee Gees
Bee Gees
@[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.
Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
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."
Just A Little Lovin'
Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield
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:
"'Just a Little Lovin’ is a timeless country song originally recorded by Eddy Arnold in 1954. The song, written by Eddie Miller and Jimmy Campbell, explores the delicate nuances of love and showcases Arnold’s emotive vocals. It delves into the universal theme of love and how even the smallest gesture of affection can have a profound impact on our lives." https://oldtimemusic.com/the-meaning-behind-the-song-just-a-little-lovin-by-eddy-arnold/
American Town
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran shares a short story of reconnecting with an old flame on “American Town.” The track is about a holiday Ed Sheeran spends with his countrywoman who resides in America. The two are back together after a long period apart, and get around to enjoying a bunch of fun activities while rekindling the flames of their romance.