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| Screaming Trees – Witness Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[juggernatrix:34611] You are the only one who understood this lyric. Religion? Lanegan? He was a junkie at 18! And when you are a junkie, there is absolutely nothing else you think about. In the words of his close friend Layne Staley, who knew a thing or two in the subject, "God's name is smack for some". |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Snow (Hey Oh) Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[ChefCookinabob:32582] I think you got it more than anyone else here. People like to philosophize and talk about quoting Socrates, but an ex addict, or an addict, only thinks about one thing, and one thing only, especially when he or she is trying to stay clean. Tracks IMO are track marks, road from the sea to the sky could be PCH (there is also a road near Vancouver called Sea to Sky) and the "Listen what I say-oh" may be all attempts of the character to justify his lies, or even his sponsor. "All the channels have broken down" - he is in recovery so he does not have his contacts anymore, but somebody finds one in the end (Now you bring it up
I'm gonna ring it up). He has moments of clarity through the song (When it's killing me, what do I really need, all that I need to look inside") but in the end "There is no way out" so he goes for the fall. This is obviously my reading and interpretation of the song, to me it sounds clear as a bell. Sometimes it's all so clear and we need to see much more into it, innit? |
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| Jerry Cantrell – Pig Charmer Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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The song is about Jerry in his maximum degradation - nothing left to care about phase. Seems like his rock bottom, the one when the instinct to survive starts to break through. Interesting part: Layne used to call him "Satan Hoof" for apparently, a foot odor issue, and he quotes Satan Hoof in this song about the fact that he hasn't showered in two months. |
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