The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
This next one
Is dedicated to all the stoners in the house!!!
The ones that smoke the weeedaa
Hydroponic is on
Mother nature supreme step back and dream the hydroponic scene
Found around knocked out of bounds wound into the mind of my stone cloud
Taste the thinnest of oxygen rising higher a stoner cus I can groove something
Wrecking nothing to prove see that's in my nature
So fresh, the vital bud of the chronic tastes of something thicker
Everything I eat is from the Earth, right
I am what I eat straight up Earth, right
Nothing but a walking sack of Earth nice to meet you how do ya do
Guess what. Ya you're one too
My skin holds me in my brain moves me then boom
I jump straight off the speaker in a form a celebration that we're moving
Freely disconnected I'm truly grateful I'm going back the Earth
I'm not gonna waste life being hateful
Jumpin' out my skin
The skin I'm in
And the hydroponics' on
Did it because we want to toke up until it's gone an abstract notion
Here to connect me to the ocean
'Cause I'm water and carbon and not much else I felt compunction
Conjunction junction what's your function
I'll be hookin' ups verbs and nouns and phrases and clauses as to the causes
Of misery quizzically I look to my own book hooked on trying to fathom
The solar systems and atom in a larger molecule
called a galaxy cool
The milky way is where I stay
Astronomy steppin' stompin' a pow wow I rock the mike and shake up the ground
And I'm a bust out like wild dandelions in fat bloom
I'm shooting through the cosmos because I loom
you know I'm higher I'm shining brighter
yes yes
Like where water comes together with other water foamin'
Now I'm Homin'
Like a bird soarin' right to the mood
I'm a wildflower busting out I go boom
Jumpin' out my skin
The skin I'm in
And the hydroponics' on
Jumpin' out my skin
The skin I'm in
And the hydroponics' on
Is dedicated to all the stoners in the house!!!
The ones that smoke the weeedaa
Hydroponic is on
Mother nature supreme step back and dream the hydroponic scene
Found around knocked out of bounds wound into the mind of my stone cloud
Taste the thinnest of oxygen rising higher a stoner cus I can groove something
Wrecking nothing to prove see that's in my nature
So fresh, the vital bud of the chronic tastes of something thicker
Everything I eat is from the Earth, right
I am what I eat straight up Earth, right
Nothing but a walking sack of Earth nice to meet you how do ya do
Guess what. Ya you're one too
My skin holds me in my brain moves me then boom
I jump straight off the speaker in a form a celebration that we're moving
Freely disconnected I'm truly grateful I'm going back the Earth
I'm not gonna waste life being hateful
Jumpin' out my skin
The skin I'm in
And the hydroponics' on
Did it because we want to toke up until it's gone an abstract notion
Here to connect me to the ocean
'Cause I'm water and carbon and not much else I felt compunction
Conjunction junction what's your function
I'll be hookin' ups verbs and nouns and phrases and clauses as to the causes
Of misery quizzically I look to my own book hooked on trying to fathom
The solar systems and atom in a larger molecule
called a galaxy cool
The milky way is where I stay
Astronomy steppin' stompin' a pow wow I rock the mike and shake up the ground
And I'm a bust out like wild dandelions in fat bloom
I'm shooting through the cosmos because I loom
you know I'm higher I'm shining brighter
yes yes
Like where water comes together with other water foamin'
Now I'm Homin'
Like a bird soarin' right to the mood
I'm a wildflower busting out I go boom
Jumpin' out my skin
The skin I'm in
And the hydroponics' on
Jumpin' out my skin
The skin I'm in
And the hydroponics' on
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okay ya, this song really rocks....i dont even smoke but still this song kicks ass
311 rocks with this song. "Conjunction junction what's your function. I'll be hookin' ups verbs and nouns and phrases and clauses as to the causes. Of misery quizzically I look to my own book hooked on trying to fathom. The solar systems and atom in a larger molecule called a galaxy cool. The milky way is where I stay."-they're proving that just because you smoke weed it doesnt make you dumb and that you casn still kick ass because weed doesnt make you stupid
it's swag that makes you stupid, when you smoke the good shit like dro and kb, then everything is clear. And haven't you noticed that the galaxy resembles a giant atom. They weren't the first to point that out though, but damn, great song anyways!
After about 5 bong rips I crank this up and when they hit the chorus its like being in a diffrent universe for me
let's hear it for smoking pot, and how wonderful it is. it's great that there are bands like 311 that can show the world that just because you smoke pot doesn't mean you should be considered some sort of stupid stoner or whatever society's lead everyone to believe. sure, there are stupid people who smoke pot, but they were stupid to begin with, right?
alot of respectable poeple smoke pot. 311 rocks... fuck sublime ;)
Anybody else feel like the chorus was waaaay too short in this one? I really liked it, but each time it came around it seemed to end too quickly. Good song though, even if you're not a fan of the herb.
I don't think there is a better beginning to a song than the beginnning of this song if your hear it live, or the way it starts on the "live" album. I'll listen then start it over right after the intro just to hear it again before listening to the whole song
one of my favorite headbanging tunes... saw them at the greek theater in berkeley,ca and sprained my neck and back i was rocking so hard.hahahaha! im too old for the mosh pit.bummer.