| Gnarls Barkley – Blind Mary Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is one of my favorite Gnarls Barkley song. It's both a clever love song about weed and also a commentary on people and real love. I think it's clearly about weed and the line "She has never seen the sunshine" easily fits with that. Weed growers have had to develop indoor methods in order to avoid aerial surveillance of growing operations. As a result most illegal weed grown in the U.S., Canada, etc. doesn't actually see the sunshine. "She's not staying, she's just passing through" makes me think of smoke passing through the lungs. The second verse is a bit tougher to rectify to weed but I think he's talking about his addiction in general. The drug is calling to him and the line "Before you know it I was holding her hand" shows that he's impulsively using it. The line "I'm so much prettier inside" is clever because it invokes a feel-good maxim about beauty not being skin-deep, but in the weed context it's meant to be taken literally. The only part of him the weed sees are his insides and they're much prettier than his outer appearance. That's really bleak to think about literally though; that he thinks the mess that are our inner organs are better looking than what's presented to the eye. There's some really nested cleverness in the overall idea of the song that goes beyond just the lyrical content. It's a love song about a drug disguised as a love song about a girl. To me the implication of that is that the girl being used to disguise the true object of the song could never love him the way the object could and he can only find unconditional love like that from a drug. It's a brilliantly cynical and depressing idea dressed up as a love song. |
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