Something For The Weekend Lyrics
I don't feel it's about drug addiction as such. Drugs, certainly - Ecstacy/MDMA in specific. It's an early song and quite naive. SFA have never been anti-drugs exactly (I still remember reading about the acid/keyboard/defication incident...). It's also very ELO-esque. A great tune about youthful enjoyment of recreational drugs I can certainly relate with.
I'm pretty sure Gruff was being sarcastic in that interview.
Gruff Rhys on the line about George Foreman: "There's a quote in it from George Foreman. He was asked, 'What did you spend all your money on?', and he said 'Slow horses and fast women.' It's about the downside. There's too many songs celebrating the upside of sex and drugs. Wine, sorry. There's a lot of trauma to be had by shagging and wine. If you drink loads of wine, you keep on repeating yourself, and if you shag a lot, you repeat yourself. Some sexual experiences are blissful, some are traumatic."
rather genius lyrics actually.
i think the end of the chorus the part of the line that says, "For the rest of my mind" is excellent.
it means that drugs have lasting effects on your brain, that is how i take it. For instance having a bad trip on LSD or doing too much E can have negative long lasting effects, post trauma, depression, depersonalization, etc. This has been proven. I really, really like that one of my favorite bands isn't just saying 'Woo hoo, drugs, yeah!' like so many do so often.
I find the approach of this song on the topic to be phenomenally unique and the lyrics to successfully express the potentially negative psychological side effects of psychedelic drugs.
fun fun fun fun song
It's about alcohol, not drugs. Same concept, though.
What makes you say it's about alcohol? I would have said the first verse is definitely about dropping pills, but the second is a bit more ambiguous - coke? Can't really see how it relates to booze.
I read an interview with Gruff that said it was about wine.
That and the line "Pass the brandy"
its bout E and going out at the weekend .
Yeah, its definitely drugs, hence "Stuck it on the back of my tongue and then swallowed it"
In the interview Gruff was being sarcastic. "It's about the downside. There's too many songs celebrating the upside of sex and drugs. Wine, sorry."