I believe this is another amazingly on point and nuanced commentary on the insanity that follows emotionally abusive relationships. The abuser has no anxieties, no emotional pain, or salience/memory for that matter, so the survivor appears to be the crazy one, obsessed with the abuse and that buzzword that seems to ignite arguments about diagnosing people without a degree, etc. funny how you say the words domestic violence, abuse, abuse survivor and boom the subject changes. Anyways, I especially relate to her midnights becoming afternoons, complex PTSD often leads to this phenomenon, whether due to purposeful sleep deprivation by the abuser, or just hyper vigilance associated with the PTSD, along with the fear of facing people, especially your loved ones, who
Never actually understand, even if they try, because all they see is you, on fire, screaming about the arsonist that no one ever sees, and who has been spreading lies about your alleged mental instability, deceptive personality, etc. the whole time. While the last thing survivors need is more blame, our society supports a narrative that blames the objectively innocent party because the blatantly guilty party has spent their entire lives fabricating a persona and we’re just being human, and human psychology is quite counterintuitive especially in the context of trauma. Look at Amber Heard. Vilified and not believed, regardless of what any abuse survivor could recognize as a fellow survivor instantly. But Johnny depp is a malignant narcissist, a man, and wealthy as all get out. It’s sick.
Fell into
A sea of grass
And disappeared among
The shady blades...
Children all
Ran over me
Screaming tag!
You are the one!
He trips her as
Her sandals fail
She says stop!
I'm a girl...
Whose fingernails are made
Of mother's pearl...
Yellow buttercup
Helicopters
Orange buttercat
Chasing after
The crazy bee
Mad about somebody...
Me and my girlfriend
Don't wear no shoes
Her nose is painted pepper
Sunlight...
She loves me
I mean it's serious
As serious can be...
She sings a song and
I listen to what it says:
If you want a friend
Feed any animal...
There was so much space
I cut me a piece
With some fine wine
It brought peace to my mind
In the summertime...
And it rolled
Summer.... oh...
Oh.... the summertime rolls
A sea of grass
And disappeared among
The shady blades...
Children all
Ran over me
Screaming tag!
You are the one!
He trips her as
Her sandals fail
She says stop!
I'm a girl...
Whose fingernails are made
Of mother's pearl...
Yellow buttercup
Helicopters
Orange buttercat
Chasing after
The crazy bee
Mad about somebody...
Me and my girlfriend
Don't wear no shoes
Her nose is painted pepper
Sunlight...
She loves me
I mean it's serious
As serious can be...
She sings a song and
I listen to what it says:
If you want a friend
Feed any animal...
There was so much space
I cut me a piece
With some fine wine
It brought peace to my mind
In the summertime...
And it rolled
Summer.... oh...
Oh.... the summertime rolls
Lyrics submitted by iheartnitz
Summertime Rolls Lyrics as written by Perry Farrell Eric Adam Avery
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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As to the “song meaning” and the purpose of this website — to interpret the meaning: This is way out there but this is one interpretation some others have agreed with me on. I think the song does quick cuts or flashbacks between two parallels. One is clearly a young man in love w/ his girlfriend, who’s nose is “painted pepper sunlight” (best-ever way to say freckles). The other one is the young man having been drafted to serve in a War. Bear with me on this…and try to keep an open mind. If you cut out the lyrics that obviously relate to his girlfriend, there are a few mysteries raised w/ lyrics that remain.
For example, the opening paragraph, we all assume “fell into a sea of grass and disappeared among the shady blades” is another reference to playing, summer, etc, but it may be about a guy sent to Vietnam — he “fell into it” he did not choose it. “Sea of Grass” with shady blades so high that you can disappear among them? Easily could be said to be referring to the thick jungle in Vietnam.
“The Children all ran over me screaming tag — you are the one!” Not exactly about a one-on-one loving experience w/ his girl. This could be said to be the Vietnamese children who did not know what to make of the soldiers, playing with them, maybe literally “tag” but maybe figuratively — since neither the Vietnamese children nor the American soldiers wanted to be in that pickle, pushing blame to each other regarding who started it.
Then the lyrics change to the soldier hearkening back to his girl and their love, tripping, sandals, etc, mother’s pearl.
Then, it switches back to Vietnam with “Yellow buttercup” (Asian children — try not to think racist in thinking of “yellow” as an Asian reference) seeing an American "helicopter", it shooting at them, suddenly they are bleeding, red blood mixes with yellow, forming Orange (orange buttercat) and the “yellow butterCUP” is now an orange “butterCAT” (cats have claws and teeth to fight). The war is making the "yellow" Asian children orange and butter cups into angry cats, now the orange buttercats are “chasing after” the flying entity that caused their pain for no reason —what is first called the helicopter is now called simply “the crazy bee mad about somebody” — which the children don’t understand. “Oh no” is how that ends.
You may think this is out there, but how can you fit these “non-girlfriend” passages into the song when they have such imagery? And ending w/ "oh no".
After the pain and reality of what the war is doing, the lyrics settle in permanently on the comforting images of the soldier’s love with his beautiful girlfriend. It even possibly references a return not only back to the relationship w/ her, but how they are walking naked — which could be a reference to the Adam & Eve story in the garden before they knew they were naked. The song then in effect ends up drawing the distinction between innocence/love/euphoria/eternal-life and knowledge/pain/conflict/awareness/mortality.
Sorry, I know that is way out there and if Perry Farrell saw this he would laugh me out of the room. Maybe it’s just a song about a guy in love w/ his girl in the summertime. I am not a Vietnam vet or religious guy, just like to over analyze things, feel free to call me crazy.