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I touch the tongue to see a devil's face in front of me.
A sad man in front of me.
You blow your nose then cry and the clown demands a sad goodbye.
A sad man, a sad goodbye.
Black below the tree, white horses dead in front of me.
A sad man in front of me.
A scar below the cheek, where there's a sweaty man with a bloody sink.
A sad man, a bloody sink. So,
(Chorus)
It's just a trip not a way to ease your pain.
(This is not a way to ease your pain)
Self help. Tell another shrink the same damn thing.
(Listen for the way to ease your pain)
Stay cool, everything is gonna be okay.
(I think it's rather time to ease your pain)
Until you decide to drop again. Until you decide to drop again.
A blue jean girl to be, and still the sweaty man is behind the trees.
Behind the trees.
The flip side of sanity is the game. I'm 14 million miles away, I'm 14 million miles away
away from sane.
The dark man in the restroom window pane who's words just pour out human pain.
(Chorus)
It's just a trip not a way to ease your pain.
(This is not a way to ease your pain)
Self help. Tell another shrink the same damn thing.
(Listen for the way to ease your pain)
Stay cool, everything is gonna be okay.
(I think it's rather time to ease your pain)
Until you decide to drop again. Until you decide to drop.
drop.
now I'm so high, so high, so high.
So I, so I decide.
'Till you decide to drop again.
A carnival ride through trip again.
Until you decide, until you decide, until you decide.
'Till you decide to drop again.
A carnival ride through trip again.
Until you decide, until you decide, until you decide.
It's just a trip, not a way to ease your pain.
Self help. tell another shrink the same damn thing.
Until you decide to drop again.
A sad man in front of me.
You blow your nose then cry and the clown demands a sad goodbye.
A sad man, a sad goodbye.
Black below the tree, white horses dead in front of me.
A sad man in front of me.
A scar below the cheek, where there's a sweaty man with a bloody sink.
A sad man, a bloody sink. So,
(This is not a way to ease your pain)
Self help. Tell another shrink the same damn thing.
(Listen for the way to ease your pain)
Stay cool, everything is gonna be okay.
(I think it's rather time to ease your pain)
Until you decide to drop again. Until you decide to drop again.
Behind the trees.
The flip side of sanity is the game. I'm 14 million miles away, I'm 14 million miles away
away from sane.
The dark man in the restroom window pane who's words just pour out human pain.
(This is not a way to ease your pain)
Self help. Tell another shrink the same damn thing.
(Listen for the way to ease your pain)
Stay cool, everything is gonna be okay.
(I think it's rather time to ease your pain)
Until you decide to drop again. Until you decide to drop.
now I'm so high, so high, so high.
So I, so I decide.
A carnival ride through trip again.
Until you decide, until you decide, until you decide.
'Till you decide to drop again.
A carnival ride through trip again.
Until you decide, until you decide, until you decide.
Self help. tell another shrink the same damn thing.
Until you decide to drop again.
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It's funny. I've been listening to Blue October since I was 10 or 11(at the latest). I know everyword to every song up to Any Man In America. I'm about to turn 21 now, and I've been going though all these songs, line by line and I'm just in shock about how much passion and thought went into these songs and really just how personal they actually are.. I never knew this was about acid, yet I sung it all the time.
Sick song...fucking great when Justin starts yelling"so high"....album is so unreal its almost as good as "The Answers"..
To me, this song looks like an interpretation of what someone's (maybe justin's?) conversations with their phsyciatrist are like.
the lyrics describing various symbols sounds like a dream, dreams, or maybe repressed memories.
i'm not sure what the trip is. perhaps a trip to a mental hospital? or a specialized phsyciatrist.
the drop is one from a place of well being. he's singing from the perspective of his shrink, essentially telling himself that it's up to him to decide how healthy he is phsycologically, and that he's going to be okay until he decides to drop from that place again.
"now I'm so high, so high, so high. So I, so I decide."
he's relatively happy, and that scares him, so he goes back to the familiar territroy of being depressed/disturbed.
that's how i see it, anyway.
it cant be that because he sais "self help tell another shrink the same damn thing" he doesnt want help from people like that he wants to work it out on his own
it cant be that because he sais "self help tell another shrink the same damn thing" he doesnt want help from people like that he wants to work it out on his own
Justin is talking about dealing with depression and instead of taking his rx drugs he is self medicating. "a sad man and a bloody sink" is reference to a heroin junkie who has missed their vein or it has collapsed and they wasted their dope on a missed shot... It's just a trip, not a way to ease your pain. Self help. tell another shrink the same damn thing. Until you decide to drop again. This is a reference to another dose of heoin... You tell a shrink that you have coped with your issues and that you are all better to be released......
Justin is talking about dealing with depression and instead of taking his rx drugs he is self medicating. "a sad man and a bloody sink" is reference to a heroin junkie who has missed their vein or it has collapsed and they wasted their dope on a missed shot... It's just a trip, not a way to ease your pain. Self help. tell another shrink the same damn thing. Until you decide to drop again. This is a reference to another dose of heoin... You tell a shrink that you have coped with your issues and that you are all better to be released... But in actuality the trip to ease your pain is a way to run from your deamons even for a short while..
The trip is an acid trip. He's dropping acid. Hence the line "I touch my tongue"... as in putting a piece of acid paper on his tongue.
"14 million miles away from sane" as in tripping balls.
"I'm so high, so high, so high." he's tripping.
Can't believe you missed that
that makes sense.
is it that hard to believe i don't know much about acid?
I think it's a little of both. He's been trying to go clean, but, withdrawal or whatever led him to start, is causing him pain, mental or physical. So he's going back to the acid--"I think it's rather time that you ease your pain". But he knows, ultimately, that it won't help. It isn't a way to ease his pain. But because it's the only thing he knows how to help himself, he self medicates with acid. And it's what he'll keep doing until he decides he has to fix himself.
On a personal side note, having chronic back pain, I love this song. I self medicate as well (though not with acid) and I listen to this song sometimes to remind myself that self medicating isn't going to help anything in the end. It's a very beautiful song, for an acid trip!
Justin Furstenfeld said this is about a bad acid trip he had when he was around 15 years old.
Agreed, this is a song about self-medicating (with LSD) to escape and avoid extreme emotional pain (depression).
Does anyone know why Justin repeatedly uses the number 14 in many of his lyrics? He uses that number so frequently it has to have some significance...
Meant to add to the above post:
...I wonder if he started suffering from depression around the age of 14 and/or if something significant happened at that age.
well on the cd sleeve it says "this is just a drip not a way to ease your pain" but I hear trip...I think it's about how when you're in the hospital after a traumatizing event they give you a morphine drip. Or it could be about taking a trip using illegal drugs
maybe it's about him using drugs to ecape reality and the trip thatthey take him on and the journey Justin has to take to give them up and become a better person and heal on his own.....
does anyone know what the "blue jeaned girl" is talking about?