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Greedy Fly Lyrics
Do you feel the way you hate?
Do you hate the way you feel?
Always closer to the flame, ever closer to the blade.
I am poison crazy lush,
Built these hands to lift me up.
We are servants of our formulaic ways.
I'm screaming daisies,
From 14 miles away.
I've got my own time, got it all today.
Make up your mind, need some help to find this mind, mind, mind.
Limbo this and limbo that,
You were this and you were that.
Ever know that what you fear is what you find.
This Indian summer I signed my life away.
There's a greedy fly in here and I fly away.
Make up your mind, need some help to find this mind, mind, mind.
Make up your mind, need some help to find this mind, mind, mind.
Make up your mind, need some help to find this mind, mind, mind.
Mind, mind, mind, mind, mind, mind.
Do you hate the way you feel?
Always closer to the flame, ever closer to the blade.
Built these hands to lift me up.
We are servants of our formulaic ways.
I'm screaming daisies,
From 14 miles away.
I've got my own time, got it all today.
You were this and you were that.
Ever know that what you fear is what you find.
This Indian summer I signed my life away.
There's a greedy fly in here and I fly away.
Make up your mind, need some help to find this mind, mind, mind.
Mind, mind, mind, mind, mind, mind.
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I think this song is about the way we need to embrace life, because any other way isn't worth living.
It's about giving in to different traps as a greedy simple organism in different ways while trying to find something that we need help to find.
"We are servants to our formulaic ways"
We choose to put ourselves in situations that control us, instead of deciding to be in control. We are in limbo, unsure of ourselves and our choices. We either choose to balance ourselves, or we choose to be balanced by forces of nature.
"Ever know that what you fear is what you find"
We eventually create what we envision as ourselves and for ourselves.
I found your view very insightfull. I think he feels trapped in a life,mind,paradyme, "Here" ect. Knowing the success he has (BUSH) "I've got my own time. Got it all today." He realizes it's fleeting. It's amazing to me how much he says with the few words he uses. My interpitation of his lyrics changes frequently so I as have yet not tired of hearing his songs. I just arrived to the 90's about 3 months ago. I dig it!
I found your view very insightfull. I think he feels trapped in a life,mind,paradyme, "Here" ect. Knowing the success he has (BUSH) "I've got my own time. Got it all today." He realizes it's fleeting. It's amazing to me how much he says with the few words he uses. My interpitation of his lyrics changes frequently so I as have yet not tired of hearing his songs. I just arrived to the 90's about 3 months ago. I dig it!
You see someone always standing at the edge with their eyes closed, wanting so badly to gain something. Little do they know the ground is falling out from under them, stepping over the edge. You however stand back and watch, with a certain knowledge, yet a certain carefree, dreamless aura surrounding you. Losing your mind, and in the heat of the moment, you sign it all away. Now you and your mind is gone, floating aimlessly, still seeing that someone unsteadily hovering at the edge, and searching for help to find this mind. You're now further away from who you see and want to reach, you can't though. Only they can make the choice to extend out to the extended. This defeats the question or rather demand to make up your mind and the answer needing to find some help. This presents a double issue. Servants to our own causes. Conflicting eachothers causes. They've lost their minds.
And I've lost mind. The realities of loss and egoistic value.
In depth and unnecessary.
May be confusing but that's what it said to me.
I'm sexy.
I think everybody needs to see this music video at least 9 times before they die
warning - be prepared for the possibility of not being able to sleep
ever
again
and have a nice large bucket/tub positioned a nice 2 feet or so directly beneath your mouth
I thought it was fuckin cool, but it'd probably sick most people out
Gavin's got a cool sense of evil.....
He'd be the baddest badass of grunge if it wasn't for Cantrell and the whole G Stef thing......wtf was he thinking......
This song is about the downfalls of fame, said by Gavin himself in a Twitter Q&A a few months ago.
i love the way gavin plays with words when he writes. everything is so visual. this is whats great about this song
I think I will go outside and scream daisies....however the hell you do that....and 14 miles away from what? Anyway the lyrics may not make much sense to me but I like the song because it has some cool phrases...
Its clearly about Daisy Lowe (British model) That was his god-daughter (or so he thought). In 2004 a paternity test proved him to be her biological father. Although song was written before he found that out, I would imagibe it was a tribute to his god-daughter.
Its clearly about Daisy Lowe (British model) That was his god-daughter (or so he thought). In 2004 a paternity test proved him to be her biological father. Although song was written before he found that out, I would imagibe it was a tribute to his god-daughter.
I love this Bush song. To me, it's about a person who hates themself and is reaching out to anyone to help make their life a better one.
"This indian summer". Does this have anything to do with the times when you feel so horny that you wanna fuck every woman in sight. At least thats what i think it is. Or it could be my fucked openioin. "Jeevs" reffers to 'The indian summer" too.
@Chester an indian summer is when it's hotter than usual later than it should be in the year I believe...like a false summer that happens in fall
@Chester an indian summer is when it's hotter than usual later than it should be in the year I believe...like a false summer that happens in fall
*And I've lost mine
mind, mind, mind, too much mind on the mind.
Not mine to mind.
Mind is lost!
the first stanza is completly fucking awesome and this is probably my favorite bush song
god grunge is so awesome ...come back 90s