Hideaway Lyrics
Tried shortcuts, but those are myths.
Despite the first hands, the backhands, the bruises, the bites
The painful spoonful the hustle invites
You speak of me and & I appear,
Right here
hideaway
Addiction to friction leaves you raw
Left with taste of flesh & bone
It's a beautiful day in the USA
I requires a pupil & I'm sure, its yours
hideaway
Never ever need to run & hide from me
New prey soft & easy
Tangled forever in my arms
you'll feel love
Like keys & dreams & old tattoos
With one quick twist love turns to scar
cruising the bruises in my car
Catch the keys, take the wheel & drive, for awhile
Hideaway
Never ever need to run & hide from me
New prey soft & easy
Tangled forever in my arms
you owe me everything
You owe me everything
You'll feel love
You'll feel love
Hold my hand.
You'll feel love
Who needs love.
I think the song is about pedophilia and how the child still thinks he's "free" and "being loved". The album already talks a lot about the relationship between father and child, and hideaway would be the worst nightmare for a father where the child doesn't even want to come back.
@Yaidin That's a good read but I decipher it differently. This song to me is a mash up of Metallica's Master of Puppets and David Bowie's Ashes to Ashes - it's about drug addiction and the power it weaves. This song, like Master of Puppets, speaks from the POV of the drug / drug dealer - "Start crawling faster - obey your master" and from the point of view of the addict in Ashes to Ashes "Time and again I tell myself I'll stay clean tonight". Homme says "Catch the keys and take the wheel and drive for a while"...
@Yaidin That's a good read but I decipher it differently. This song to me is a mash up of Metallica's Master of Puppets and David Bowie's Ashes to Ashes - it's about drug addiction and the power it weaves. This song, like Master of Puppets, speaks from the POV of the drug / drug dealer - "Start crawling faster - obey your master" and from the point of view of the addict in Ashes to Ashes "Time and again I tell myself I'll stay clean tonight". Homme says "Catch the keys and take the wheel and drive for a while" is the addict opening the door to drugs to mask his short-term pain. The drug / drug dealer portion is the chorus - "You'll stay fast and lonely Never ever need to run and hide from me New prey, soft and easy, entangled forever in my arms You owe me everything You owe me everything" Then, the end with the repeated lines of "You'll Feel Love" is the drug convincing the addict that they need nothing else but it. Finally "Who needs Love?" is the addict completely giving into the drug.
Heavy stuff.