Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Serpentine
(Jimmy Buffett/Mac McAnally)
Maybe it’s just age or a thousand other fears
That took me back tonight to my early carnival years
I can see the parade a-movin’ like the source of the old gulf stream
Oh what a lovely dream
Adolescent lust was begging for a start
As I side-stepped those Brothers with their sacred hearts
Yet for those two weeks a year, it was all about sin
Folly’s chasin’ death, you can count me in
There’s a flambeaux man with a gold earring
And the cold north wind smells like kerosene
Here comes the float of the Carnival Queen
I want to wrap her in serpentine
Hands up high eyes open wide
“throw me something mister”
That’s why you ride
Cracker Jacks with toys inside
Real beyond our wildest dreams
Floats and masks and a two mule team
Some things really are
The way they seem.
Beads and confetti were littering the air
When the Queen looked at me with her Ava Gardner stare
Though tomorrow would bring ashes and penance by the ton
Mardi Gras’s where I learned to have fun
There’s a flambeaux man with a gold earring
And the cold north wind smells like kerosene
I’m still in love with the Carnival Queen
I want to wrap her in serpentine
Still want to wrap her in serpentine
It was the devil….
©2013 Coral Reefer Music (BMI), All About The Music (BMI)
(Jimmy Buffett/Mac McAnally)
Maybe it’s just age or a thousand other fears
That took me back tonight to my early carnival years
I can see the parade a-movin’ like the source of the old gulf stream
Oh what a lovely dream
Adolescent lust was begging for a start
As I side-stepped those Brothers with their sacred hearts
Yet for those two weeks a year, it was all about sin
Folly’s chasin’ death, you can count me in
There’s a flambeaux man with a gold earring
And the cold north wind smells like kerosene
Here comes the float of the Carnival Queen
I want to wrap her in serpentine
Hands up high eyes open wide
“throw me something mister”
That’s why you ride
Cracker Jacks with toys inside
Real beyond our wildest dreams
Floats and masks and a two mule team
Some things really are
The way they seem.
Beads and confetti were littering the air
When the Queen looked at me with her Ava Gardner stare
Though tomorrow would bring ashes and penance by the ton
Mardi Gras’s where I learned to have fun
There’s a flambeaux man with a gold earring
And the cold north wind smells like kerosene
I’m still in love with the Carnival Queen
I want to wrap her in serpentine
Still want to wrap her in serpentine
It was the devil….
©2013 Coral Reefer Music (BMI), All About The Music (BMI)
Lyrics submitted by SongMeanings, edited by adviseamad
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