| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – My Friend Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Hey mav1986 "And you know good well I don't drink coffee, so you fill my cup full of sand." I think these lyrics could be referring to him coming home drunk or high (dizzy). usually people drink coffee to try and sober up, but instead of trying to help him out, she fills his cup up with sand. meaning she gives him hell for coming home drunk. "the frozen tea leaves on the bottom sharing lipstick around a broken edge" relates to a cup of coffee or tea to fit the scene. but it's really a metaphore for their relationship breaking (the broken tea cup). The cup of coffee has a tea leaf design on the outside of it, and she's sharing lipstick with it (meaning she's drinking from the broken cup). The broken cup being their broken relationship. |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – My Friend Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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allthings mustpass. you're a moron. this song is amazing from a lyrical standpoint. it's pure poetry. the first part is about a lady who seems to be high class. she's in a stagecoach and she's dressed like she's rich (pearl handled necktie). Then it's hinted that Jimi is homeless at the moment, living in a box on the street. she pulled up to his "soap box door". She then insults him by asking if she's seen him in hell. Before Jimi could reply with a sense of humor asking if it was the East or West side of hell, she runs his feet over with her stagecoach and moves on. It hurt his feet physically but even more so emotionally. "And as they pulled away I could see her words Stagger and fall on my muddy tent Well I picked them up, brushed them off, To see what they say" This part is about as she's riding away, Jimi translates what she's saying/had said to him. (He picks up her words, brushes them off and see's what they really mean). and to his surprise, I take it she's a prostitute. "come around to my room, with the tooth in the middle, And bring along the bottle and a president" the tooth being the bed, the bottle being a bottle of course, and the president being money. he's surprised at this because she looked so high class. and it's his way of demonstrating that people aren't always as they seem, and the person you really know is yourself. The chorus is him saying that it's hard when his only friend is himself. The next part is about him riding through L.A. and running into one of his old friends. the friend comments that he doesn't look as good as he used to (that Jimi looks run down and raggity). Jimi thinks to himself that he just picked up his pride from literally underneath a payphone, in other words he's just thinking "no shit, i'm homeless. i just spent the night in a phone booth" to his buddy's comment. He then "combs his buddy's breath out of his hair" meaning he just shakes off what his so-called friend had said. but it's still not easy when you're only true friend is yourself. and people aren't what they appear to be. He then gets out of jail and goes home to see his girlfriend. He's dizzy (drunk/high) so he has to check in the mirror to see if "his friend is still with him" (meaning himself being his only true friend, and if whatever he's on had changed his personality) He finds her dog laying on his coat and her cat to be hostile towards him (pill box meaning the military bunker. not drugs). This could be a metaphore for her being angry at him. The "sharing lipstick" may imply she's cheating on him, but i'm not sure. He says that he thought that she was his friend too, but now he would put his shadow before her now. And in the end it turns out that he, himself is his only friend. |
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