| Mother Love Bone – Stardog Champion Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"San Francisco where the flowers bloom in spring", I believe is a reference to the 1960's free love flower children. (His nickname in Malfunkshun was Love Child). "Fade to winter, (after the '60s) see what disease brings" Written in the 80's I believe this is about the SF AIDS epidemic. Augustino I believe to be Augustus Owsley Stanley III, and he obviously doesn't want to be like him. (Owsley was in hiding in Australia during the 80's for his LSD involvement) His father was a "wartime hero, the kind that money buys"(Vietnam?) I don't feel that as patriotic at all. Instead I feel it is thinly veiled as just the opposite. Here's an example, Exxon could buy anyone to wage war for oil. I don't feel the lyric written as patriotic at all, but just my interpretation. "It's a diamond bracelet for my mommy's memory" I believe this is another resentment against money. His mother got money for his dads war death? Hypocrisy of the flower children turning into the BMW driving yuppies? He ends again singing of the love children, the innocence lost. How they were loud and made noise, but nothing changed. "sang with Grace" Slick ? This album was recorded across the Golden Gate in Sausalito. These are all just my personal guesses, and there in lies the beauty of art. It is open to interpretation. *RIP Stardog* |
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