Burning Man

..one of their best in my opinion

Um, ok... I'll agree that 1000 Julys is about sex, and I'll even agree that Deep Inside of You is about sex, but this one definetely isn't.

Stephen realizes that life is too short, and he doesn't want to waste it, so he lives his life like it's constantly fading; (like a "burning man") experiencing everything and anything. "I won't get enough until my legs are broken". He's a burning man, he's running around like hell; ie, he's living his life to the fullest. He won't stop until his legs are broken means he won't stop living his life until he's died. He may refer to sex in some of the lines, but that's not what the the theme of the song is.

It's alot like the theme to "The Red Summer Sun", but then you probably think the theme to that is sex too.

You can't judge anything from from what he says in concert. Stephen has a habit of making himself and his material shallow for the masses at concerts; trust me, I've seen them several times. He introduces Motorcycle Driveby as being about "a girl who dumped me, on my skinny white ass" harharhar. We know there's more to it than that. Same with 'Forget Myself' - "This is a song about how I was BAAAD, last summer." Riiight. It may also convey powerful messages that just about anyone can relate to but we aren't going to talk about those, no no.

All I'm trying to say is that he likes to project a bad-ass image of himself and his music, but alot of it is pretense. Most everything he writes is very personal to him, he just doesn't like to get all poetic when he's trying to keep a stadium full of cheering people happy.

So I stick by my interpretation of the song. Stephen may love women, but he's anything but shallow... he's at heart just a real emotional guy, and a genius lyricist.

Easy...... 'rise and fall of my sloppy love the smatterings and splatterings' is sex, and smatterings getting you is pregnancy possibly. Maybe a girlfriend or affair of his was very paranoid about un-planned-for babies. Also, 'hold me down I wanna find out' is sexual discovery of personal technique, perhaps. Kinky. Ummm... 'You know you never get what you need',Maybe she never orgasms? Blue Diamonds are a brand of matches, caffeine is an upper, basically excitement. Not sure about incineration, squelching desire by giving in to it? (My way) 'Pull out of your stall, maybe I'll see you after all' is use of a pun that PARENTS use, "Kinda like closing the barn door after the horses have escaped" 'Burning man', easily a man overheated by his....mojo. 'I won't get enough until my legs are broken' , going at it like a couple of little rabbits until you poke an eye out with that thing!!!!! 'Life is not to fear' the irrational fears of a virgin. 'Life is to enjoy' a come-on line of some sort. Mr Death.....who knows for sure? I like that line the best out of them all,however..... ' sparks will fly into the summer air' 'the stars they shine in an empty void' is the ecstatic visions acheived during orgasm, falling into 'the summer sky' and they being the stars,so to speak. she must not have been too impressed, or she would've called. Definitely the theme is sex.

I totally agree with the above statement. I love the way Stephan says things in a different way to make the fans really think about what the song is about. :D

a lot of his songs talk about sex. but i dont think this one is about sex. I think he is pissed cuz his girl cheated on him "maybe you thought i'd call instead im crashing down your hall" you know she wasnt expecting him to just show up. So now he's just like screw it.

third eye blind are my gods

I happen to agree with the former of the comments.. Sex.

To illustrate, I was recently at a 3eb concert down in Jones Beach Ampitheatre, and Steven said something which resembles the following right before they played Semi-Charmed Life:

(Refering to their touring), "In the last 2 years.. I have learned NOTHING about myself... I am still a naughty... naughty... naughty... dirty, dirty bastard."

I agree that it's about living live to the fullest, but I think maybe it's more about how he's been living life the the fullest, doing everything he'd ever wished to do, but perhaps constantly running (ie. like a burning man would run) from committments & responsibilites & relationships . But maybe he's finally found someone he'd like to keep in his life, but he's not sure if it would grow to be anything so he says, "Hold me down, I want to find out." He's asking for their help to keep him stationary long enough to try. That's my 2¢ anyway. ~PaIgE~

its about living freely, without worries. like a burning man, there is an art festival called the burning man festival, where people just go and create art freely, and at the end of the festival the burn a human figure.