This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Hey
I think it's turning back around
And I think I like it
I think it's turning back around
Though I don't know why it is
I think it's turning back on me
I'm down on the upside
I think it's turning back on me
Now I'm the good ride
And nothing's gonna put me out
It's backing down and under
I'm down on the upside now
It's turning back around
Turning back around
I think it's coming on the wind
Just like you said it
I think it's coming on the wind
And I'm gonna let it
I think it's turning back on me
Everything's easy
I think it's turning back on me
Everything's real to me
And nothing's gonna put me out
It's backing down and under
I'm down on the upside now
It's turning back around
Turning back around
Turning back around
Hey
I think it's coming on the wind
Just like you said it
I think it's coming on the wind
And I'm gonna let it
And nothing's gonna put me out yeah
It's backing down and under
I'm down on the upside now
It's turning back around
Turning back around
Turning back around
Turning back around
Turning back around
Turning back around (turning, turning, turning)
Turning back around
Turning back around (turning, turning, turning)
I think it's turning back around
And I think I like it
I think it's turning back around
Though I don't know why it is
I think it's turning back on me
I'm down on the upside
I think it's turning back on me
Now I'm the good ride
And nothing's gonna put me out
It's backing down and under
I'm down on the upside now
It's turning back around
Turning back around
I think it's coming on the wind
Just like you said it
I think it's coming on the wind
And I'm gonna let it
I think it's turning back on me
Everything's easy
I think it's turning back on me
Everything's real to me
And nothing's gonna put me out
It's backing down and under
I'm down on the upside now
It's turning back around
Turning back around
Turning back around
Hey
I think it's coming on the wind
Just like you said it
I think it's coming on the wind
And I'm gonna let it
And nothing's gonna put me out yeah
It's backing down and under
I'm down on the upside now
It's turning back around
Turning back around
Turning back around
Turning back around
Turning back around
Turning back around (turning, turning, turning)
Turning back around
Turning back around (turning, turning, turning)
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Great song! One of my favourite songs off Down On The Up Side. I basically agree agree with the interpretaions here. Although I find the title quite strange... Dusty?? I expect something to do with "coming on the wind - just like you said it - coming on the wind - and im going to let it" Actually even as I write this im getting an idea.. Maybe it relates to how Chris sings "I think its turning back around - though I dont know why it is". He's "down on the upside", eg. Rising out of depression, but he doesnt know why that is. But its "coming on the wind" and hes "gonna let it". He's allowing himself to be guided by forces outside of himself - going with the flow, where the wind blows ("on the good ride") - choosing to become like dust in the wind. Hence the title: Dusty...
this song is just about feeling better about yourself its about sudennly realizing that every thing is gonna b allright
.. even reading the lyrics, i felt exactly what youre talking about...
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I agree with you all. Can someone answer this? Do you think that the Down On The Upside album might be about Chris' marriage with Susan Silver? I mean he says shit like "I shot my love today" on burden in my hand and "pretty noose is pretty pain" on pretty noose. If this is true then he is clearly pissed of with his wife, susan silver, and other evidence is that he is now going to take her to court, as he believes she ripped off the band. And by the way, I'm referring to all of Chris Cornells lyrics, not the rest of the band.
i think dusty can be an interpretation oftakin off that dust in you and have a cleansing when you decide to turn back and start over again.
its about karma and how luck is always changing for better or worse, none the less it always changes.
What happened to these guys during the write phase of this album?
I get a total feeling of rebellion from this song. Chris is trying to portray the feeling of a rebellious mind getting what he wanted. He's becoming excited of the fact that he is finally turning himself "upside down". He ensures pride in "nothing's gonna put me out, it's backing down and under". The person is lettin himself free (from the oppressions of society, maybe) and now "everything's easy", "everything's real to me". He's now letting himself be full of the dust carried by the wind of revolution. He's becoming dusty.
very (semi-oddly) inspirational song