This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Just a spoon full of sugar
Makes the medicine go down
Sweet Mary-Jane won't you lay me down
Lost my heart in California, lost my mind
Shot me down with a revolver, got me high
Then a heart of gold came on the stereo
Mr Young made me cry
Then all the colors of the rainbow
Fell in my eyes
I lost my mind long ago
Down that yellow brick road
I lost my mind long ago
Down that yellow brick road
Took a train to the river
Where I drove right in
That skinny dippin' girl
Made the blue bird sing
Fell in love in California, she blew my mind
She shot me down with her revolver
She got me high
Then the weather man came on the radio
Said there be sunshine
Then all the colors of the rainbow
Fell in my mind
I lost my mind long ago
Down that yellow brick road
I lost my mind long ago
Down that yellow brick road
Makes the medicine go down
Sweet Mary-Jane won't you lay me down
Lost my heart in California, lost my mind
Shot me down with a revolver, got me high
Then a heart of gold came on the stereo
Mr Young made me cry
Then all the colors of the rainbow
Fell in my eyes
I lost my mind long ago
Down that yellow brick road
I lost my mind long ago
Down that yellow brick road
Took a train to the river
Where I drove right in
That skinny dippin' girl
Made the blue bird sing
Fell in love in California, she blew my mind
She shot me down with her revolver
She got me high
Then the weather man came on the radio
Said there be sunshine
Then all the colors of the rainbow
Fell in my mind
I lost my mind long ago
Down that yellow brick road
I lost my mind long ago
Down that yellow brick road
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personally, i can't believe no ones picked this up, i literally made an account just so i could say this ahha.
i think its about drugs. the first verse ALONE has soo many referances. Just a spoon full of sugar Makes the medicine<-- what medicine? Sweet Mary-Jane <-- weed Lost my heart in California, lost my mind Shot me down with a revolver, got me high <-- obvious ha
such an amazing song. but i think theres a few obvious hints haha :)
you didn't elaborate in the slightest. The only thing you analyzed was that of the sweet mary-jane line. don't act like things are obvious when you obviously don't know what your talking about
Although there is a bit of reference to drugs... its about more.<br /> maybe an experiance he had with a girl..<br /> or life..
I totally agree with you caitbron, i was thinking the same thing. It seems the 'long ago' might've referred to being quite young in california when they maybe had it for the first time. Where they sat and listened to music and kinda fell in love with it all. 'All the colours of the rainbow fell into my mind' seals the deal.
I have to agree, if not only for the first verse. The references, in my mind are far too obvious to pass off as anything other than drugs. A spoonful of sugar is of course referring to the process of preparing heroin in a spoon over a flame and being the browny orange colour of unrefined sugar. Mary Jane is a no brainer, and all being topped off with all of the colours of the rainbow filling his eyes - tripping balls. <br /> <br /> To me this is by far the best A&J song ever, the way it evolves from a few simple acoustic chords to a solid beat and that gorgeous electric solo, it's just perfect. Watching these two play it live is gorgeous, so much heart behind it.
Oh and I completely forgot to mention the most important part - the name of the song. Simply him saying "I lost my mind down the yellow brick road" is again to me telling of the effects of the yellow coloured hell that is heroin.
the spoon full of sugar has no reference to heroin im sorry and the yellow brick road is a special type of marijuana that is grown solely in california.