Highways of Gold

Poor Bobby. :(

Okay, so, some of the words are nonsense because I couldn't really figure out what he was saying, but most of it makes sense. If anyone has corrections, feel free to post and I'll edit it! :)

Bobby? I'm pretty sure it's.."Everybody knows, knows, knows, that FIRES going to die, die die"

I think its' nobody knows not how we climbed so high...

Has anyone heard the new version of the song?

I thought the demo was oh so much better.

I bought the album at their concert and this is what the liner notes say...

And everybody knows, knows, knows the highway climbs so high, high, high past the skeleton crows pecking out the cities eyes

Yeah if you drive, drive, drive and never look down you'll pass the spines, spines, spines connecting the clouds And if you drive, drive, drive through the rainbow fence you'll pass the crystallized thundercloud gardens

Me and the skeleton rose, rose, rose lay on our backs one night watching those luminous roads tying knots in the night humming this old song...

Highways of gold Where do they go? The suns dripping roads Like flailing tentacles

And everybody knows, knows, knows that Bobby's gonna die, die, die The way that skeleton rose is always gettin' him high

Oh when he cries roads eject from his eyes And we drive, drive, drive over his last rights Yeah we fly, fly, fly past a map of his heart flashing like, like, like a neon junkyard

And everybody knows the highway climbs so high past the skeleton crows on those towers of time

Highways of gold Where do they go? The suns dripping roads Like flailing tentacles

I think it is pretty vague... I think it has to do with addictions or greed. Addictions because he says shit about getting high, flying over rainbows. Greed because he is making alusions to gold and well being. Hell it could be both ways now that I think about it.

But then he warns us about it, talking about Bobby...

I dunno... I've never really seem to understand quite well Blood Brothers lyrics anyway

i think its about cocaine. am i the only one?

i think its about drugs

And everybody knows, knows, knows that Bobby's gonna die, die, die The way that skeleton rose is always gettin' him high

and the skeleton rose is like drugs

past the skeleton crows pecking out the cities eyes

and the skeleton crows is like the idea of drugs and how ppl dont see how there bad cuz other ppl make them seem soo good like it pecks out your eys and leaves you blind to the fact that what your doing is wrong

Perhaps the "highway" bit represent the notion of "death's road" as in the road that everyone travels when they die..hmm.. i read that somewhere, but i dont know...

I think this song is more about envy than anything. The way i see it, the highways are other people, they're gold because their lives are better than Bobby and Johnny's, who's lives are described as a skeleton rose, Death and life together, perhaps monotony or misery.