Real Thing Lyrics
you can snort lines of heroin too...
Its definetly about drugs but I'm not so sure about herion in specific. Both the use of "blade" and "white line" seem to imply its about cocaine. About who is using I'm not sure.
"I messed around as a little boy. I grew up, made the blade my new toy." Meaning: Used lesser drugs, graduated to heroin. The blade is a syringe.
"I grew up, went into rehab. Doctors did me no good. Gonna be a new man. Can I borrow $50 bucks." Meaning: Sarcastic verse. Rehab wont work if your not ready to quit. Doctor is just another person to hit up for some $ for a fix.
"Under the hill with just a few notches on my belt. Take it away, dont want no more Even if you say just one more I wont leave you alone" Meaning: Gonna die with nothing accomplished in my life. There is no "just one more". Hooked, dependent, its always just one more, and then one more... etc.
"Goin' down the steps on a white line. Straight to nowhere." Meaning: Sinking, dying, (down the steps).. because of heroin use. I cannot recall any rock song about heroin using the lyric "brown line" to reference heroin. In the 50's and 60's when heroin was prevelant in rock music, it was white. (China white, for example). Even today the best heroin, if you can afford it, is white. The brown heroin from mexico is incomplete in the process of making it street ready. Uncleaned and unwashed, it is brown in color, (and not as potent.)
"Sexual chocolate, baby" (Possible) Meaning: A sarcastic, humorous, ironic toss off lyric. In 1988 Eddie Murphy made a movie called Coming to America. In the movie, Eddie plays the lead singer of a band called Sexual Chocolate. The song Black Chocolate sings is Whitney Houston's "The Greatest Love of All".
Of course, the lyric might be comparing a good heroin high to sex. And as mentioned above, there is brown heroin out there. Another more simple meaning might be that, to an addict, heroin is sex and chocolate rolled up into one. "Heroin is better than chocolate or sex"!
And finally, the demo song for Real Thing was orignally called Heroin. That is the best indicator of that this song is about I would think?
coke = the Real Thing.
It seems pretty self-explanitory: White line-herion and/or cocaine. That's what this song is about
He just randomly screams it at the end... I like this song and it's early demo "Heroin."
this is a song that is actually important to the aic legacy, its just hard to realize it. yea its a humerous ode to heroin, but thats ok, cause they were just gettin started, so they could mess around a little. well i think it was put as the last song on purpose. in the lines "im goin down the steps of the white line straight to nowhere" which was exactly was layne was going to do ever since then. i dont know if that was an accident or what. the sexual chocolate part is kinda weird, but wutever who cares.
ok its definetly coke not heroin thats y he made reference to a blade but the sexual chocolate in my opinion was probly just a joke or something and under the hill has nothing to do with under the bridge under the hill means that you r dead
I like the way he does the second "I messed around . . ." couple of lines.
"Sexual chocolate baby" is a reference to a quote from the movie "Coming to America." At least, that's my guess. "under the hill" - kind of like RHCP's "under the bridge"?