Blue Balloon

I think a lot of people may be missing the darkness of this song. There's a beautiful twisted dick joke (and possibly worse) under the surface of seemingly serene environmentalism and childhood innocence.

blue balloon = literally, an inflated child's toy, among life's simplest pleasures blue balloon = metaphorically, the earth floating through time and space blue = sad, gloomy, or depressed balloon = an impending economic crash, or something always on the verge of sudden collapse as impossible expectations meet their reality balloon = condom blue balls = a man's discomfort from lack of sex balloon = a common way heroin and some other drugs are smuggled and/or sold (refer to the song "Dirty Blue Balloons" by Failure)

I suspect this is about the poor life of a sex worker, trying to get high or distract herself while having to perform oral sex on guys all day. It's so odd that she will accept any man. Her mouth slides over and down the shaft of his penis which is covered by a blue condom. She doesn't make eye contact (eyes defy every man).

Meanwhile, men are building their own balloons, their impossible expectations, their own economic crash, and no one recognizes the emptiness of it. No one recognizes that the sum of our unfulfilled dreams and our eventual failure to achieve is going to resolve itself with emptying our sperm sacs into a brightly colored rubber receptacle.

The sex worker is looking for her father's love; if she stays high all day (above the clouds) can she feel the affection she still craves?

She bounces along the banks of BACCHANAL, which is not a mystical place, it is actually a word for a hedonistic party, or a partying state of mind, in honor of Bacchus, Greek God of wine, indulgence, and so forth.

Only after beating along the paths (streets) and boulder caps (fat guys?) and icicles (thin guys?) she eventually dies, hardly noticed at all. She expires and her last breath is expelled. It returns to the central blue balloon (the earth/atmosphere).

The refrain "Blue Balloon, my soul calls to you" I take to mean "You poor wretched walking cumbag, I extend my sympathy, and also I may be attracted to you. I yearn for you, Ms. Blue Balloon, reliever of blue balls." and also "I feel sorry for this whole Earth, this whole big inflated bag of hot air."

bluee blue balloon. metaphor ?

I think they just wanted to write a cheesy song about a magical blue balloon, a song that is so funny w/ the keyboard part alone, people won't be able to help but laugh.

this song is about heroin use, not to say that any member of ween has done heroin but that is what this song is about

these lyrics are wrong i get the vibe this song has an underlying meaning and its really about some girl who gets around, but is beautiful and defiles the eyes of all man.

blue balloon = da earth

yeah blue balloon is obviously referring to the earth. and here is what i think everything means...

As she bounces through the blue sky (as the earth goes around the atmosphere) Everybody's building up a big, blue balloon (maybe everyone climbing up the latter or success) they made the string (some fail on the latter, some dont) from fairy wings and golden dreams (comparing the rich to poor) see how high it goes (see how sucessful people get.

i could be wrong though.

and these lyrics "Can the Farmer's arm reach the child above clouds, so as to dance the Delapart away upon above the blue balloon." are wrong and should be changed to "can the father's love reach the child above the clouds so as to dance the day up high"

i think its just a metaphor for the earth... the weird trumpet effects in it are to remind us how stupid people really are on earth

It is a metaphor for earth. This song is about global warming. The polar caps are melting, putting more and more land underwater, making a big blue earth. A big blue balloon.

its about nitrous