| Blind Melon – Dump Truck Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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So many references to drug use, namely heroin. rather than attempting to analyze the lyrics of this song for meaning, i thought i'd simply interpret some of the language that Hoon used in the song that most people will not understand, since it involves a drug culture that they are not themselves part of or familiar with. Thus, i have provided the following for others to help them decipher whatever meaning they might find: "...soothing my itchy itchy month of May" because opiates make you itch...alot "...pigeon park" probably where he scored dope "way up in my arms you know i love you just a little bit more" obviously talking about shooting dope, and either that he loves dope more or that he loves better when he's had dope "raisin' nose down to chin smoke after smoke they all trickle in" this may be the snobs who look down on junkies, only to eventually "trickle in" themselves; also, nose down to chin may refer to nodding out, in which a person's head will always be down "anything for anything and ending up with nothing" because the junkie will do anything for anything and always lose everything "simple pimpled young man sores all over his hands, he's sleeping not so silently" junkies who shoot up often get abcesses or pimples on their faces, hands, arms, all over really, and sleeping may be referring to nodding out "i know that you could fly a mile high" could refer to someone with a really high tolerance, who can get really high but needs alot more dope and finally "nothing is ever gonna come between my dumptruck and me" i thought about this one and i'm not so sure about the language here, but i picture the "dumptruck" also a reference to heroin, because another name for heroin is "junk." junk goes in a dumptruck and nothing is gonna come between a junkie and his junk. |
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| Blind Melon – Car Seat (God's Presents) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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i remember the news story of Susan Smith killing her kids. i was only 14 at the time, but i recall the great amount publicity the case received and the outrage that most Americans had for Smith. indeed, this case seemed to spark much interest and thus media attention for cases where children may have been murdered by their own parents. But the second verse of the song refers not to Susan Smith, who drowned her kids by driving her car into a lake with them trapped, but to a father, who apparently buried his children at or near a truckstop. Any idea who these lines are referencing? [On a side note, thinking about media and murderous parents instantly made me think of a case more recent, the disappearance and death of Caylee Anthony, who achieved an enormous amount of press coverage, throughout her disappearance, then throughout her mother, Casey Anothony's, murder trial. And even following the trial, there remains occasional interest in the case, which i believe is largely due to the public's confusion by the jury's conclusion that Casey was NOT guilty of murdering her 2-year old...after all, as soon as the missing girl became regular national news, the media blitzed Casey Anthony, practically finding her guilty in the public realm before she had even been arrested. i believe most people came to the conclusion of guilt as soon as they learned that the supposedly distressed and grief-stricken mother had, until the point of police involvement, been having a wonderful time partying at nightclubs and, perhaps worst of all, had the phrase "Beautiful Life" tattooed on herself. Whether she actually killed the child or not, i don't know. but after catching snippets of the story as it unfolded, i certainly assumed she was as guilty as anyone could be. it certainly didn't seem like she was behaving the way a "good" mother would. but i guess being a shitty mother isn't itself a crime. if it were, she would never have been released...but we'd also have to imprison all the millions of other shit moms...] |
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