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Inside Out Lyrics
Look out your window
That grass ain't green
It's kinda yellow
See what I mean?
Look up your chimney
The sky ain't blue
It's kinda yellow
You know it's true
It's so hard to figure what it's all about
(Chorus)
When your outsides in (inside out)
And your downsides up (upside down)
Yeah, your upsides right (rightside up)
Yeah, don't it make you wanna twist & shout
When you're inside out
Look down your drain pipe
What color do you see?
It's got to be yellow
Don't try to fool me
And don't it make you wanna twist and shout
(Chorus)
Be careful where you're walking
You might step in something rough
Be careful where you're talking
And saying all that stuff
Take care when you are breathing
Something's funny in the air
And somethings I'm not saying
Bout what's happening out there
It's inside out
Look into the future
With your mystic crystal ball
See if it ain't yellow
See if it's there at all
Ain't no shadow of doubt
Don't it make you wanna twist and shout
(Chorus)
That grass ain't green
It's kinda yellow
See what I mean?
Look up your chimney
The sky ain't blue
It's kinda yellow
You know it's true
It's so hard to figure what it's all about
When your outsides in (inside out)
And your downsides up (upside down)
Yeah, your upsides right (rightside up)
Yeah, don't it make you wanna twist & shout
When you're inside out
What color do you see?
It's got to be yellow
Don't try to fool me
And don't it make you wanna twist and shout
You might step in something rough
Be careful where you're talking
And saying all that stuff
Take care when you are breathing
Something's funny in the air
And somethings I'm not saying
Bout what's happening out there
It's inside out
With your mystic crystal ball
See if it ain't yellow
See if it's there at all
Ain't no shadow of doubt
Don't it make you wanna twist and shout
Song Info
Submitted by
ruben On Jun 09, 2002
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Observations following an acid trip?
the simplicity of the lyrics is so endearing!
This song seems like it has political overtones, about how people look away from problems in the world... Yellow grass, yellow sky could refer to pollution and environmental degradation. "Be careful where you're walking / You might step in something rough" -- poverty, crime. "There's some things they're not saying / 'Bout what's happening out there", the media doesn't cover some things going on in the world, society wants to gloss over its problems. "Look into the future / With your mystic crystal ball / See if it ain't yellow / See if it's there at all." The future is metaphorically "yellow", sick or maybe there's no future for some. The chorus seems to say that people are feeling mixed up, "inside out", and sarcastically asks, "Don't it make you wanna twist and shout?", referring to how people seek entertainment as a distraction from reality and it's problems.