| Cake – Jolene Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think you guys are on the right track, but a little off.. " Well Jolene unlocked the thick, breezeway door, Like she'd done one hundred times before. Jolene smoothed her dark hair in the mirror. She folded the towel carefully and put it back in place. " From this, I imagine a scene of her getting ready to go to bed. As mentioned, tedius tasks, repeated often. "Yeah I want to pull you down into bed. I want to cast your face in lead. Well every time I pull you close, Push my face into your hair, Cream rinse and tobacco smoke, That sickly scent is always, always there. " I see this as the writer having an attraction to the girl. She's beautiful, he wants her beauty and what makes her HER to stay. But there is also the "cream rinse and tobacco smoke" smell that is always there - the mundane, repetitive parts of her life. Tobacco smoke, to me, seems like it's possibly from her father who she lives with, or from a job (server at a divey bar?) that she holds. "Jolene heard her father's uneven snores. Right then she knew there must be something more. Jolene heard the singing in the forest. She opened the door quietly and stepped into the night. " Here, she's realizing that the life she's living is repetitive, not spontaneous enough, and ventures out - but meekly (stepped quietly into the night) "Yeah I want to throw you out into space. I want to do whatever it takes, takes, takes. Well every time I pull you close, Push my face into your hair, Cream rinse and tobacco smoke, That sickly scent is always, always there.." He wants to rip her out of her world, he wants to show her what is out there. She's living in this plain and limited existence, and he wants to 'throw her into space' to show her that there is a huge world of possibilities. He'll do anything to get her to experience the world, because he absolutely adores her. The last mention of the sickly scent is kind of a last lament about the situation. I think the semen reference, while colorful.. a little far fetched? Heh. |
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