Some Weird Sin

feel an eternal outcast, the world doesn't allow you to love him or even to get a life that's when go on the edge, for thrills, something that makes you care and towards the limits on your own, sometimes it gets really sick

anyone who doesn't relate relates

Only three comments? This song is about feeling so alien in the world, so much like you don't even belong here, that the only way to tolerate existing in it is to commit some act that the world at large views as vile, just to feel anything at all.

Some Weird Sin by Iggy Pop- The general message of the song is about three things: anxiety, rejection (or dispossession/displacement) and drug use. This album was made while Iggy Pop and David Bowie looked to Berlin to minimized their drug use. In essence, the song is about struggling with addiction while living with the stigma of being a social outcast. Here is a detailed summary:

Well, I never got my license to live They won't give it up So I stand at the world's edge: -Iggy never had much of a chance at life. He went to school with some of the wealthiest people, but was poor in comparison.

I'm trying to break in Oh, I know it's not for me And the sight of it all Makes me sad and ill That's when I want- Some Weird Sin: -Iggy realizes he will never be mainstream as his wealthy counterparts. It makes him feel "sad and ill" (possible a reference to Heroin withdrawals). This is when he wants a "weird sin" - which can only be interpreted as Heroin because of the following stanza-----

Things get too straight I can't bear it I feel stuck, stuck on a pin: -Iggy feels sober and can't take the reality sobriety presents. So he feels stuck, anxious to leave the situation like he is on the a pin- yet the pin may be a metaphor for his immobility as well as heroin use.

I'm trying to break in Oh, I know it's not for me But the sight of it all Makes me sad and ill That's when I want Some Weird Sin That's when I want Some Weird Sin Just to relax with: -Repeating the same concepts again. He wants a weird sin to relax with- this could mean sex, heroin, alcohol etc.

Yeah, some dumb, weird sin For a while anyway With my head on the ledge That's what you get out on the edge Some Weird Sin:

• Iggy mentions "dumb" in the paragraph. Heroin has the effect of numbing and dumbing its user. He believes the pressure leads him to want it.

Things get too straight I can't bear it I feel stuck, stuck on a pin (see previous)

I'm trying to break in Oh, I know it's not for me When the sight of it all Makes me sad and ill That's when I want Some Weird Sin That's when I want Some Weird Sin Just to relax with (see previous)

That's some dumb weird sin For a while anyway With my head out on the ledge That's what you get out on the edge Some Weird sin (see previous)

Thank you!

I promise you, this song is 100% about Heroine and the feelings that precede and demands its usage. The opening line, the feeling of being born out of place, and that others feel a part of. ‘They’ won’t give it up? The resentment and anger that you’ve been deliberately excluded by an uncaring world. So I’m standing at the worlds edge-outside the circle of humanity. I’m tying to break in. Maybe I can join this world of human support and warmth. Isn’t that what him and Bowie were doing in Berlin? Oh the sight of it all makes me sad and ill? A remembrance of the way most(not all) but most heroine addicts see the world even before the first usage. A confusing mass of unloving, cold and hostile people. This is what Heroine treats…and with out it and seen thru those eyes, it really is a sad and sickening sight. And THAT’S when I want, some weird sin. It is a weird sin. And considering the price it eventually demands, it is a dumb weird sin. Things get to straight-is simply normal life, which is unbearable. In the movie Drugstore Cowboy it’s attempted to be described to a normal person why even after being physically separated for even long periods of time, why would anyone return to it? Something like “one day the pressure of having to tie your shoes is just too much “. Stuck on a pin? Like a butterfly, pierced and exposed and unprotected. And after all this building pressure? Just a little relief, for awhile anyway. Head on a ledge? Nodding out…temporarily treated, relived and relaxed. One of the only privileges that come to you- out on the edge . Sorry so long, but so brilliant in its simplicity, not so easy to describe. If you disagree, perhaps because you have not felt this way, I’m happy for you, be glad

one of Iggy's most powerful lyrics.

I think it's about never fiting-in a world that ultimately we'd never want anyway. We can't help to feel frustrated for being outcasts, and some weird sin is the validation of the place we have (or have chosen) in life. The need of remarking how different we are.

Now are we different because we're outcasts, or are we outcasts because we're different?

You can clearly hear the Bowie touch in the music here. (In case somebody doesn't know) two of them did "Lust for Life" album together, and Bowie is heard in the back in several songs...