A kitten on fire, a baby in a blender
Both sound as sweet as a night of surrender
I know it ain't easy
But you do what you can
If your livin' gets weezy
You can follow this plan

Put in more than you could ever get out
I'm tired of the talking
I know what you're about
Now open your mouth-here comes the spoon
You're gonna eat what I give ya
And you're gonna like it real good

I went over the river
And into the woods, where did I go?
Where a wood buring stream flows up through the trees
Like the soul of the hottest kind of lover i've ever seen, "E"
One who lives to choose another fool's dream

A good shower head and my right hand
The two best lovers that I ever had
Now if you find you agree with what I just said
You'd better find a new love
And let 'em into your head


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Into the Woods Lyrics as written by James Olliges Jr

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    i was talking to a fellow MMJ fan the other day about the meaning of the first two lines, which always seemed to catch me off-guard:

    "A kitten on fire, a baby in a blender. Both sound as sweet as a night of surrender."

    it seems so over-the-top, I could never quite wrap my mind around it. here is a theory we came up with by the end of the conversation, however wrong it may be:

    He is playing with cultural stereotypes with the shocking imagery (kitten on fire, baby in a blender). Kittens & Babies typically signify innocence and sappy preciousness; they can also represent naivety. The lyrics destruct this innocence in order to represent how, analagously, first love and/or sex (forms of 'surrender' in the metaphor) destroy innocence as well. For instance, think of how idealistic & lofty your interpretation of 'love' was before your first physical relationship. This is what you ultimately 'surrender,' - that blissful ignorance.

    The following line "as sweet as a night of surrender" is sarcastic. Of course a kitten on fire or a baby in a blender don't actually sound 'sweet.' He's being ironic. This forfeiting of ones innocence is actually a sad thing, though we don't quite realize until it's gone. At the time though, the action (sex, for instance) seems beautiful, but a part of us is ultimately being destroyed irrevocably.

    Hope this makes at least a little bit of sense, but no, I don't put much validity in it. I'm interested to hear what other people think about it.

    NightNeverSleepson January 04, 2007   Link

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