Turning Japanese

Look, you shouldn't believe everything you see on the tele, you know? This song has double meanings. It really depends on the way you look at it. One way, would be the obvious-Masturbation. Okay, we've got that. But think about it. "Oh it's in color Your hair is brown Your eyes are hazel And soft as clouds I often kiss you when there's no one else around"...He might be talking about falling in love with a Japanese girl, and the whole world around him shuns him, because he isn't Asian. He might feel that he is so in love that he, too, is starting to feel a bit Japanese.

Or...He could be talking about masturbation. ^_~

dude, i dunno about you guys.......but my face doesnt turn all japanese like

He's not in jail - he's in a psych ward obsessing over a picture of this girl which he would like a million of. It's not 'cyclone ranger', its "everyone avoids me like a psyched lone ranger"

well, when dave originally wrote this song, it supposedly was a love song...and later when interviewers asked him if it was actually about masturbation or not he'd answer no or yes, depending on his mood .. so basically you can decipher it any way you want to

Masturbation is pretty much a "lone ranger" activity.

It is amazing how on idiot says something and the rest of the idiots pick up on and before you know you have a pseudo-fact.

It is obvious that no one here has actually seen/heard the REPEATED interviews by Dave Fenton (the guy wrote the song) about what the song means and it is NOT about masturbation.

If fact Fenton made up the term one day when he woke from a dream and thought it would be good in a song. The song was and is about love nothing more.

Term itself did not get used as a euphemism for masturbation until AFTER the song was released and well some idiot came up with the notion and said it was a fact.

If you don't believe me, and I know you don't here it from Fenton's own lips -

youtube.com/watch

I heard that this song was about the guy going gay. I don't believe that at all, & agree with the masturbation thing, but what is this part about..."No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women, No fun, no sin, no you, no wonder it's dark"?

Why does the guy have to be in jail if he has a pic? You can jack off with a pic anywhere, not just in jail. And I do think that's what this song is about.

ONE HIT WONDERS-but it's still a cool song!

I've got your picture, I've got your picture I'd like a million of them over myself ..i thought that part said "i'd like a million of them over my cell" everyone's been saying it's about being in jail, so wouldn't that make sense. also, if this song is, in fact, about masturbation, what does this "Everyone around me is a total stranger Everyone avoids me like a psyched lone-ranger" part mean? how does that relate to masturbation?