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I wanna be clean but I gotta get high
It's good to be here so hard to come by
You bring pain cause you got game
And needles and pins a man can't take
Peaches living like lychee's
Digging the scene like beautiful cliches
From these shapes of a gangster lean
Ignoring wars on gasoline
Our god's ? and made to get high
God's left hand wasn't made to get by
Got more highs left in me
And there's more room in recovery
From evil stains that strip all chrome
From Marshall Amps into broken homes
And borstal blues to countless clicks
That rhythm sticks to those classic checks
Steal your tears and drown your fears
All is clear in a glass of beer
Peaches living like lychee's
Digging the scene like beautiful cliches
You fill me with endorphins
And you star in magazines
We draw liquor from the mattress springs
It ain't over til the last bell rings
Got more highs you and me
And deluxe rooms in recovery
It's good to be here so hard to come by
You bring pain cause you got game
And needles and pins a man can't take
Peaches living like lychee's
Digging the scene like beautiful cliches
From these shapes of a gangster lean
Ignoring wars on gasoline
Our god's ? and made to get high
God's left hand wasn't made to get by
Got more highs left in me
And there's more room in recovery
From Marshall Amps into broken homes
And borstal blues to countless clicks
That rhythm sticks to those classic checks
Steal your tears and drown your fears
All is clear in a glass of beer
Digging the scene like beautiful cliches
You fill me with endorphins
And you star in magazines
We draw liquor from the mattress springs
It ain't over til the last bell rings
Got more highs you and me
And deluxe rooms in recovery
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I'm pretty sure this song is about running away from your problems using drugs. It's about breaking a promise of not getting high (made to yourself or someone else) because you don't feel there's any reason to keep it anymore. And you want to escape the pain that's drowning you. It could possibly be a break up scenario.
I listen to it when I'm running cause it definitely gets the blood going.
I'm God's only addict and made to get high God's left hand wasn't made to get by
Should be "What I got in my hand is made to get high God's left hand was made to get by"
Yah, thanks. I got the album off of iTunes, and all the sources I could find online were missing that line so I had to play it by ear. Sorry. :/
Yah, thanks. I got the album off of iTunes, and all the sources I could find online were missing that line so I had to play it by ear. Sorry. :/
Where did you get those corrections from, because it doesn't sound like that's what he's singing at all? More like the lines that got removed.
Where did you get those corrections from, because it doesn't sound like that's what he's singing at all? More like the lines that got removed.
This song is so gloomy, just the way I feel right now. It's about drugs and addicition, isn't it? Well, for me the feeling this song has to it resembles the feeling I have when I find out that a girl doesn't like me when I'm in love...
Massive’s Robert Del Naja describes "I wanna be clean but I gotta get high" line, and the song’s other references to substance addiction, as more metaphorical than literal, saying,
“"I want to be clean, but I gotta get high” is a general observation really. For myself and other people I know … It’s not a battle with addiction so much as it’s just about trying to moderate everything.“
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/massive-attack-weve-always-been-into-telling-a-story-1896929.html
Same with other comments, I believe this song is about using drugs and breaking a promise. I like how "you bring pain cause you got game" perfectly describe the drug, but for the one who also think this is a gloomy break up song I think that perfectly says "the girls with game, with style, are harder to handle kinda thing" lets stick to the drug side of the song tho
"Peaches living in niches, digging the scene like beautiful cliches, FROM THESE shapes of a gangster lean, ignoring wars on gasoline" this part talks about the people with shallow "beautiful lives" but then sticking to cliches, ignoring the real world (wars on gasoline) and just thinking about their car and style (gangsta lean)
This hes is the one using the drugs with the background of jamming with friends (Marshal Amps into broken homes) as a teenager and borstal experience and everything... (classic chicks might refer to the fact that those times are passed now)... and soothing all the pain with a glass of beer
and the last part talks about ordinary people sticking to cliches while his sex life is just doing drugs and fucking all night (till the last bell rings refers to church) and again dealing with drugs
P.S: English is my second language and I am always the reader in these websites, not the one writing comments... but this song has changed my life... so I wanted to share what I think about it. Hope my interpretations aint too off
Same with other comments, I believe this song is about using drugs and breaking a promise. I like how "you bring pain cause you got game" perfectly describes and complements the drug, but for the ones who think this is a gloomy break up song I think that perfectly says: the girls who got "game", have style, are harder to handle kinda thing.
lets stick to the drug side of the song tho
"Peaches living in niches, digging the scene like beautiful cliches, FROM THESE shapes of a gangster lean, ignoring wars on gasoline" this part talks about the people with shallow "beautiful lives" who stick to cliches, no out of box shit, no critical thinking, ignoring the real world (wars on gasoline) and just thinking about their car and style (gangsta lean)
He also describes his lifestyle a lil bit with on point phrases which matches the tone of the song perfectly, he comes from the background of jamming with friends (Marshal amps into broken homes) as a teenager and having to deal with borstal (shitty experience) and everything... I think classic chicks might refer to the fact that those days are gone and its been a while... and soothing all the pain with a glass of beer
and the last part talks about ordinary people sticking to cliches while his sex life is just doing drugs and fucking all night (till the last bell rings refers to church) and then dealing with the "aftery" s
P.S: English is my second language and I am always the reader on these websites, not the one writing comments... but this song has changed my life... so I wanted to share what I think about it. Hope my interpretations aint too off