C-C-C-Cinnamon Lips

i thought it was about a mail-order bride bought by a lonely old man..

ahahaha, I thought the same thing, emma. :D

Also, the drug reference doesn't cover the whole song, you're just cherry-picking the parts of it that fit the drug reference. What does the weather affecting his knee have to do with blow, eh?

I think it's just meant to be a light, happy song about being in love with someone. The part about sheep not being able to put him to sleep is more likely a reference to not being able to sleep well when they're apart than a reference to being wide awake on coke, imo. "Never felt this way before"-- do I really have to explain that? And rain and snow... it's doubtful that it's a drug reference, it just doesn't mesh. Sorry Automission, but I'm gonna have to go with love on this one, not cocaine.

The song functions on two levels, which is integral to its meaning. On the one level, as magicsheep and meet4breakfast mentioned, it's just about a fun and playful relationship with a more serious undertone. Look in deeper, though, and you'll realize it's about the effects of drug use on relationships.

As the song starts, they are using drugs to, let's say, make things more fun. He realizes amidst all the pleasure, though, that "tears [can't] come from those eyes" — the drug is messing up their emotions. As fun as it is, he realizes that it's turning their relationship into a purely superficial one, all about drugs and sex and no longer about a deeper emotion. He tries to convince her not to use drugs so much, because it's messing them up - he doesn't even know who she is anymore, because the person she used to be is lost underneath the haze of drugs. ("I'm tired of looking up into those starry eyes... does it rain where you are?")

He tells her that it's messing them up ("the weather affects my knee"), but she gets angry and dumps him for a boyfriend who's fine with her addiction. "Powder your cheeks" refers to her getting high again, and "new beau" is the new boyfriend. The tragic thing is that when this happens, the grief does what the girlfriend couldn't — he withdraws back into the land of drugs. He wishes she was back with him, and says that she will, someday, wish she hadn't dumped him. In the end, the emotions brought on by her dumping him, and his love for her, and those from the drugs, all overwhelm him.

i guess it could be about drugs, and it would make perfect sense, but i prefer to think that it's about a guy whose girlfriend is wrapped in her own little world. He loves who she is but he also wants her to come back down to earth with him. oh well..

i dunno really! ^^

i love this song so much!! everytime i think about it, i get this funny vision of tonnes of couples throughout the century, like a 50's couple at a fairground, and a 60's hippie couple outside a VW and an 80's couple by a punk rock club...its really cool lol

They do this awesome awesome dance to this song. you can apparently buy the dance at their shows, but ha i got to see it live and it was by chance the coolest thing i have ever seen in my entire freaking life, i could not stop laughing.

but ya the song's awesome, like all other ok go songs, so ya.

yeah i love their dance. i didnt get to see the one to cinnamon lips, but i got to c the new one for a million ways, it was badass!

this song is awesome & the first song i've heard from them. my sister played it to me on a roadtrip to the shore. and now it remind sme of kittens... because my sister's cat gives kisses and this song reminds her of the kitty too. :] hee.

this song is about a relationship that is playful and cute, but after awhile it gets more serious and meaningful.

and have you landed yet means they're high and "snow"=cocaine... once again thats just an assumption