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Severed Hand Lyrics
Big man stands behind an open door
Said, leave your lady on the cement floor.
Got some kicks, want to take a ride?
I said, yeah!
“take your pick, leave yourself behind”
I said, yeah!
I've no fear but for falling down
So look out below I am falling now
Oh please understand I just need, my friend,
a way a way a way home
Tried to walk, found a severed hand
Recognized it by the wedding band
Said it’s ok, do you want some more?
I said, yeah!
Said You’ll see dragons after 3 or 4
I said, yeah!
Under stand I’m not falling down
I said, look around, the rooms taller now,
I can’t close my eyes,
‘cause I see the sound in waves
In wave, lets me stay calm
If I don’t lose control
Explore and not explode
A preternatural other plane
With the power to maintain
Like a tear in all we know
Once dissolved we are free to grow
What is human, what is more?
I’ll answer this when I get home
Said, leave your lady on the cement floor.
Got some kicks, want to take a ride?
I said, yeah!
“take your pick, leave yourself behind”
I said, yeah!
So look out below I am falling now
Oh please understand I just need, my friend,
a way a way a way home
Recognized it by the wedding band
I said, yeah!
Said You’ll see dragons after 3 or 4
I said, yeah!
I said, look around, the rooms taller now,
I can’t close my eyes,
‘cause I see the sound in waves
In wave, lets me stay calm
Explore and not explode
A preternatural other plane
With the power to maintain
Once dissolved we are free to grow
What is human, what is more?
I’ll answer this when I get home
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It seems to me that this song is pretty obviously about psychedelic drug use, like LSD or peyote.
Heres evidence:
"Got some kicks, wanna take a ride?" --> kicks = hits, ride = trip
"...leave yourself behind" --> hallucinagens sometimes give the sensation of being outside your body
"tried to walk, found a severed hand...recognized it by the wedding band" --> he can't walk right, he sees his hand, but is outside it, "severed" from it, and he only recognizes that it is his by the wedding ring
"you'll see dragons after 3 or 4" --> hallucinations
"the rooms taller now" --> spatial perception shifts
"I see the sound in waves" --> experience of synaesthesia (i.e. tasting shapes, smelling colors, etc.) caused by psychedelics
"If i don't lose control explore not explode" - often users of hallucinogens panic when their world starts to desolve. he realized that he must keep control and not explode
"a preternatural other plane" --> reference to the transcendent journey he in undergoing
"once dissolved we are free to grow" --> a hippie idea, on the same page as Timothy Leary, that humans can reach spiritual freedom when the mental filters that structure our world are broken down
in addition to all this, the picture that accomplanies the lyrics in the album seems to fit along the lines of transcendence, mental/spiritual freedom
altogether, a great song
does anyone hear the bit of porch in this song and a bit of smells like teen spirit? lol anyways i don't know what this means..sweet lyrics but i'm not going to say something that its not so i'll leave it with you guys.
Definately sensing a hint of teen spirit...
I'm not sure so don't take this to heart but my first thought is a man is at a party of a sort with his wife and starts to take some stuff with his wife. She passes out, he takes some more and starts hallucinating, again just my ideas:P great song though, not th ebest of the album. little too fastpaced.
Pearl Jam did this on SNL, and it rocks! It surprised me! I loved the guitar solo at the end.
Pearl Jam did this on SNL, and it rocks! It surprised me! I loved the guitar solo at the end.
How do you know about the other songs on the album? Are they available to download?
I wanted to be original and make a comment on the similarity of this riff and the SLTS one,,...
So much for that lol,.. It's a surefire rocker thats for damn sure,...
How in the hell can the song be "too fast paced"? this song is fuckin awesome!
Saw this song performed live in SNL...IT ROCKED!!! This new PJ album is going to be BIG......
moreso porch though...