Barbarella

I don't really know what means this one, I think it's like for an x-girlfriend. anyway, scott weiland gave us a great song, and an amazing video too... i'm a selfish piece of shit.... by the way, barbarella was/is a kind of 60's comic space heroe. that's why i think it's about an x-girl or someone u really wish.

Was he on heroin when he made this album? I thought he made this while he was in jail. To me it's like he is admiting that what he does is hurting everyone around him and he wants to stop but can't. He wants someone to save him in this song. (Thats my take on it.)

In the movie Barbarella, the character discovers the pleasure of sex and kind of whores her way around trying to find Durand Durand and stop him from using his "destructo ray" (I can't remember what it was but it was bad.). Along the way she meets an angel who can't see and lost the will to fly. She makes love to him and he regains his will. He flys her around and they are pursued by these evil flying things. Barbarella shoots them down. On and on. Barbarella saves the day. Its a terrible movie, but terrible like the Evil Dead is terrible. It's great.

The song is indeed about his heroin addiction, his ex, God and least we forget. Narcotics Anonymous.... R.I.P sweet prince.

CAN SOME ONE TELL ME PLEASE WHAT THIS MEANS????

Who knows? It's weird but it's funny when he says "and all the tangerines...they taste like jelly beans."

Scott was on a lot of heroin when he made 12 bar blues, which tends to make a lot of the lyrics impossible for mostly all of us to comprehend. That's not to say they're not great songs, just...

This song ties in aspects of Barbarella the movie, along with other science- fiction pop culture references i.e Space #9. Which was some kinda 70's TV series I believe. Much like Star Trek. The whole video was a direct spin- off of a David Bowie song and video. I can't remember what the name of the Bowie song was. I can only vaguely recall a 3 minute story Kurt Loder did on this song. It was an interview in which Scott talked about the power drugs can have on you. Along with the things I have mentioned above.

I'll break down what Weiland is referring to with some of his lyrics:

"Don't know just who I am Don't know about the lamb I'm the meat of the feast". = As a junkie Scott is the meat that drug dealers feast on. It's an easy sale. Scott doesn't know "who I am", or his role, bcuz he is clouded by his drug use.

"And all the tangerines they taste like jellybeans". = The greater aspects of his life have become ordinary. Again this is bcuz of his drug abuse.

Barberella = I'm pretty sure Scott's refering to his wife.

" Save me from my Misery. Can't you see it's a disease. Shoot the bad guys..........................We watch Lost in Space on my TV". = Misery due to drug abuse. Disease is his drug abuse. Shoot the bad guys; meaning to kill Scott's demons. Watch Lost in Space; Watch other struggle while we live happily ever after.

Worth mentioning......The one line that hit me like a ton of bricks was: "grab a scale and guess the wait of all the pain I've given with my name. I'm a selfish piece of shit". This song is fucking heavy. And it was a great way to sum up his message. I cried the first 10 times I heard this song and Scott sang that line.

In honesty, who really cares what its about? Scott is the only one that really knows in the beautiful, heroin injected mind of his.

I mean, "And all the tangerines, they taste like jellybeans." Where the fuck are you gonna find lyrics as great as that???

If anyone listens to the second verse, I'm pretty sure it's weiland's take on religious beliefs. In his view, he believes there's some higher power, but he's not taking any one religion's view on it. "Let go, let god they say, I do believe but not in yours or yours. I just believe it's all the same." That part's pretty obvious. Then he says, "Don't know just who I am, don't know about the lamb. I'm the meat of the feast." Clearly, he's referencing Jesus. "The Lamb," is a metaphor for Jesus, and as far as him being the meat of the feast.....no idea. Messiah complex? Dunno, he's maybe making a comparison between him and Jesus tho, meat of the feast referring to Jesus and the last supper. So none of this clarifies the rest of the song, but that's my little 2 cent chime-in on the 2nd verse. Hope that helps someone!