Space Cowboy Lyrics
This song is about getting high on great cannabis. You can take whatever meaning you like from this song and thats fine as well.
The music video gives clues, he points to his eyes on the 'Say, I'm red again' part, indicating red eyes. The disco lights in the background are shaped like the leaves of the plant. The addidas shirt.
'A man with psychedelic picture frames Of happiness to shade his eyes' - it's about the sunglasses often used to hide the eyes.
Although at first sight this song seems about smoking out, I think it means more than that. It's about how love gets you high, much like "Cheeba". Jay doesn't say "I smoked some Cheeba and I feel awesome!" etc., instead he says "At the speed of Cheeba, you and I go deeper", which clearly indicates a love theme which perhaps overrides the drug theme also present in the lyrics. There are many more instances where this seems more about love than anything else. Examples include "I'm glad that I found somebody I can rely on" or "He's glad he found somebody he can rely on" and the repetitious use of the phrase "you and I" later on. It seems that love gets JK "so high in the sky" that he ends up in that "interplanetary good vibe zone", which perhaps inhabits the mysterious space cowboy or even Mr. Moon! Indeed, the emancipatory nature of love is a theme central to the entire album. Love gives "flowers for my pain" in Mr. Moon, and "sunshine in my life" in Light Years. There are so many more examples! Another piece of evidence for the love theme in the Space Cowboy is the musical development which reaches such a huge climax toward the end that it seems reminiscent of an orgasm.
I really love to listen to this song - especially at quiet evenings. strange nobody put a comment on this song yet
what's it about? lol
It seems like it's about general happiness. It's almost to relaxing to be true :D
hehehe yea
I love this song it's about someone returning from a jounrey and everything is good the sky is blue and good and maybe jay getting high he will feel the same way without going on a jounrey.
I think he's so high in this song. He's on a wonderful happy journey in his head. At the speed of Cheeba? he's tripping with a good friend or two.
lol...I can't believe nobody said it until Atrus. This song is so clearly about smoking out and everything mellowing out and feeling good. I know that and I've never even been to the Interplanetary good-vibe zone... ;)
lol yes that's true this is a very "high" song :p