| Ween – Happy Colored Marbles Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The first stanza is pretty simple to understand. People are not okay, they sleep through the day and don't do anything to make the changes they want. The chorus about happy colored marbles is at least a reference to losing your marbles or being crazy/stupid. He takes the marbles that were in his head and he gives them away. They don't just *poof* disappear. So, the subject of the song knows what he is doing. He says he'll ask for his marbles back when he's ready and done. I take that to mean he's going to be doing something (read 'drugs') that he doesn't need his mind for. At the end of it though he plans on coming back for them. I can't imagine another meaning of "Getting down til the dawn", except partying all night long (the reason why the people are sleeping in the daytime in the first part of the song). I suppose there might be a personal story lurking within the song itself, but it reads pretty literally. |
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