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In the belly of a dream
I bought a gram of opium seeds
I heard a hundred flowers speak
Yes, it's true
And I met two little girl eyes
Her body was a countryside
That led the day into the night
It's true
It's true
True
In the belly of the street
There are idiots walking with their feet
To where the ocean kissed the land
Yes, it's true
I met a walrus and a man
They really helped me understand
That life is just a dream
Then who's the fool
Gaman Dikeru
I'm dreaming of papaverine
Hole fallin'
I'm lookin' glass lookin'
In the garden of live flowers
I'm deep sleepin'
I'm dreaming of papaverine
Hole fallin'
I'm lookin' glass lookin'
In the garden of live flowers
I'm deep sleepin'
I'm dreaming of papaverine
Hole fallin'
I'm lookin' glass lookin'
In the garden of live flowers
I'm deep sleepin'
A deep sleeper
I bought a gram of opium seeds
I heard a hundred flowers speak
Yes, it's true
Her body was a countryside
That led the day into the night
It's true
It's true
True
There are idiots walking with their feet
To where the ocean kissed the land
Yes, it's true
They really helped me understand
That life is just a dream
Then who's the fool
Hole fallin'
I'm lookin' glass lookin'
In the garden of live flowers
I'm deep sleepin'
Hole fallin'
I'm lookin' glass lookin'
In the garden of live flowers
I'm deep sleepin'
Hole fallin'
I'm lookin' glass lookin'
In the garden of live flowers
I'm deep sleepin'
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choked Up The Air On Sep 02, 2006
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I love this song, it was what hooked me on to As Tall As Lions. Obviously this song is a dream, and how random and changing dreams are and in the one verse "That life is just a drean then who's the fool" that you spend all your life dreaming so who's the fool the dreamer or the dreams? Then it talks about falling and looking through glass. Like you fall at the end of the dream and wake up looking through glass "window" back at your imagination/dream.
Song is about doing drugs and the hallucinations that come with. It also references/loosely bases itself upon Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass.
Duh.
I agree with TheLionTamer, except for the hallucinations. "I bought a gram of opium seeds" Opium is what makes heroin and also papaverine. Neither of these causes hallucinations. Heroin causes intense euphoria and papaverine is used medicinally to loosen muscles and is non-addictive. My favorite part of this song is "I'm dreaming of papaverin. Hole fallin', I'm lookin' glass lookin'. In the garden of live flowers I'm deep sleepin'." My take on it is that he may be using heroin and takes enough that he passes out. He has vivid dreams and in them experiences flowers, possibly poppies, which is where opium comes from. He has a new take on life, "Life is just a dream".
Opium can definitely induce hallucinations. Read some William Blake, or better yet read Naked Lunch.
Opium can definitely induce hallucinations. Read some William Blake, or better yet read Naked Lunch.
in this song, there's a line "gaman dikeru", and it bothered me for the longest time because i really wanted to know what it meant. i finally asked julio at one of their shows, and he went and asked someone, and they said that they don't remember the exact meaning of the phrase, but it's japanese and the reference is to drug usage as a part of society. just in case you were wondering. :]
Thank you for that info! Although I'm not sure it's the exact spelling since I can't seem to find any info on the phrase from google. Still super interesting though.
Thank you for that info! Although I'm not sure it's the exact spelling since I can't seem to find any info on the phrase from google. Still super interesting though.
@asdfgkayla The relative low popularity of opiates is not only testament to the yakuza's efforts to effectively control the black drug markets, it is also the product of an anti-opium campaign that goes back more than a century. Last but not least it also reflects the Japanese value system that esteems "gaman dekiru", a tenacious endurance of all things unpleasant, including pain. Japanese society honors those who have a high tolerance for pain (in an almost sado-masochist way) and it condemns those who abuse a pharmaceutical substance that kills pain.
@asdfgkayla The relative low popularity of opiates is not only testament to the yakuza's efforts to effectively control the black drug markets, it is also the product of an anti-opium campaign that goes back more than a century. Last but not least it also reflects the Japanese value system that esteems "gaman dekiru", a tenacious endurance of all things unpleasant, including pain. Japanese society honors those who have a high tolerance for pain (in an almost sado-masochist way) and it condemns those who abuse a pharmaceutical substance that kills pain.