The clothesline of cold eyes
Is washing away the face before
Now tell me what's wrong you see everyone's gone
You gotta do your best to decorate this dying day
This dying day
All over a bowl of bitter beans
All over a bowl of bitter beans
And outside way, way up high I got a quarter moon mist
Hanging over me
And now, I want that rocking chair outta there
'Cause he's no longer living here
It's no longer needed here
All over a bowl of bitter beans
All over a bowl of bitter beans
And I got a corner store and that's all the more
For me to praise upon the holidays
And now I'll close my eyes really, really tight
And make you all go away,
I'll make you all go all go away
And I'll pull the trigger and make it all go away
And I'll make it all go away, I'll make it all go away
Is washing away the face before
Now tell me what's wrong you see everyone's gone
You gotta do your best to decorate this dying day
This dying day
All over a bowl of bitter beans
All over a bowl of bitter beans
And outside way, way up high I got a quarter moon mist
Hanging over me
And now, I want that rocking chair outta there
'Cause he's no longer living here
It's no longer needed here
All over a bowl of bitter beans
All over a bowl of bitter beans
And I got a corner store and that's all the more
For me to praise upon the holidays
And now I'll close my eyes really, really tight
And make you all go away,
I'll make you all go all go away
And I'll pull the trigger and make it all go away
And I'll make it all go away, I'll make it all go away
Lyrics submitted by bubbrock316
Soup Lyrics as written by Shannon Hoon Glen Graham
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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"Now tell me what's wrong you see everyone's gone
You gotta do your best to decorate this dying' day
This dying' day"
"And now I'll close my eyes really, really tight
And make you all go away,
I'll make you all go all go away" ...it's good stuff
I think the "pull the trigger" line pertains to his intraveinous drug use. "Corner Stone" is also a bit of a heroin reference...but have never heard a story of Shannon using heroin.
I think the song is about using drugs as entertainment and then realizing you are healing yourself and killing yourself with the same substance.
The beginning of the song and the line "all over a bowl of bitter beans" is about a friend of Shannon's named Bub who died of cancer. He also references bub in the song "Dumptruck", when he says "And, Bub I know you could fly a mile high."
Some great tragedy has been perpetrated over something petty and worthless. Beans are often associated with the poor, a cheap meal that has no real worth.
It's like he's trying to say that, whatever bad thing happened, it was all for something worthless... something that was bitter anyways.
bitter beans = dope.
willing to do anything for this thing that seems like it could make everything alright even if just for a minute - but i know it is so not worth it.
Soup and Nico are totally about the struggle with drugs, which is not all that different from struggles people have without drugs. - the struggle to live
My thought on the meaning, or what I take from it anyway:
The song is about a child, or a young boy, who loses a loved one, probably his grandpa.
"The clothesline of cold eyes is washing away the face before" to me says that the people, family or friends or whatever, that were hung out to dry or not really important to this person who died are hanging around during this period of mourning and beginning to tarnish the memory of this person. The following line is pretty self-explanatory.
The next few lines, and most of the rest of the song, seems to be about possessions. The "bowl of bitter beans" refers to worthless people fighting over worthless items. He mentions the rocking chair and says he doesn't want to see it any more because the man is dead. He says he has a "corner store" that he can "praise upon the holidays," meaning he has been given personal items from this person after his death, but the line seems sarcastic because although he may be thankful for the memories the items will provide, they are no substitute for the person lost.
The last lines are him closing his eyes and wishing all these other people would disappear. The lines about pulling the "trigger" are just fantasy as he slips off into his fantasy world, which is the only place he can go to see the person who is now gone.
Anyway, maybe it's totally wrong but just my take.
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