Sugar Cinnamon Lyrics
Sleeping on the streets
Did you ever know anyone
Sleeping on the streets
Slip out your arrows in tongues
(I'll dance on that cross)
Sleeping on the streets
Soil pressed to the knees and below
Sleeping on the streets
Slip out your arrows in tongues
(I'll dance on that cross)
Sleeping on the streets
But only sharp eyes ever know
Sleeping on the streets
Slip out your arrows in tongues
(I'll dance on that cross)
Tell me where we plan to be
Baby boys born a gentleman
Sleeping on the streets
Only love for everyone
Sleeping on the streets
Slip out your arrows in tongues
(I'll dance on that cross)
Sleeping on the streets
But he's got those keys in his nose
Sleeping on the streets
Slip out your arrows in tongues
(I'll dance on that cross)
Sleeping on the streets
Got my only son feeling so low
Sleeping on the streets
Slip out your arrows in tongues
(I'll dance on that cross)
Tell me where we plan to be
Leaving lips like living trails
Bodies dragging down against the earth
They said "Don't you squeal
I know a pig when I sees one"
Coming up about the bend
It's a long and quiet road ahead
Still they're talking talking talking talking talking
And always moving where we're sleeping
Where we're sleeping
Sleeping on the streets?
Did you ever know anyone
Sleeping on the streets?
Slip out your arrows in tongues
(I'll dance on that cross)
Did you ever know or plan to
Tell me where we plan to be
I get the feeling hes trying to touch on certain cruelties and hipocracies of the unfortunate..
Slip out your arrows in tounges - you know the "get a job!" "you bum." comments? thats what i take fromt his anyhow.. i could be way off
I don't know what this song means but Gourley did say in an interview that he just wanted to have "sleeping on the streets" in a song.
I think it might be about something to do with cops. Only because they say "pigs".
Now that I have had efficient time to read this through I think that's about poor vs the rich.
"Baby boys born a gentleman," If a baby is born into a rich family, society respects him.
"Did you ever know anyone sleeping on the streets?" Telling the rich that they shouldn't mock/judge the poor because they've never known anyone who have actually lived through that scenario.
And then I think the song goes onto say that really it's the rich, greedy ones you should actually watch out for.
"There's always moving where we're sleeping," means that when everyone is sound asleep they're really scheming around us, involving us.
And lastly, I believe "I'll dance on that cross," means he'd rather be one of the poor than one of rich.