| Soundgarden – Taree Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| English grammar is not exactly my strongest side, so nevermind that...Ok, my take on this song is that it's not just about the place(an bay with the "Taree" sign), it's more about things happend there...Key lyric line for me is "In my heart i will hold what my bloody hands have dropped", meaning he regrets something, some bad mistake he did, probably somebody he lost, cause of his weakness, stupidity, pride or alike. Those were probably the best times of his life and had the strongest impact on him, but he feels he did something very wrong(posible cause of drug abuse, but it doesen't have to be that, or that only. "Needles on the ground", and "floating on the fumes" can mean a lot of things). Anyway, things went bad.. So, memories hunt him, in his imagination he always goes back to his "home". But, the tricky part is he cannot ever realy be there and be the real him, caues not only he would have to go there, he would also have to bring back the time, the people, everything...and that's only posible in another, "ghost" dimension. Thats the reason for mixing real and surreal in his lyrics (cause he likes when it gets mixed in his head, it's the only way he can get home). The chous can also mean that the sing is not realy there anymore, and the whole place looks very different now, so he prays for the road to pop out from out of nowhere, so he could go to his favourite place that only he knows egsists. If you imagine a scene as described in the chorus lyrics, it looks very much like some portal pasing scene from sci-fi movies. | |
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