Of the Girl

This song, whether it be about heroin or not, is about wasting your life over something that can never be fulfilling as you need to to.

i see the drug stuff but do you see the style of no sex in it because of drugs hence the name of the song

To me it's about being lovesick for a girl. "He fills it up with the love of the girl"

HE fills it up with her love, because SHE doesn't love him and won't do it herself.

On another note, great song to listen to high.

It is clear to me this song is about a heroin adiction. The title "Of the Girl" is just a cleaver way of masking that fact.

The first stanza deals with actually shooting up. Filling up the syringe, tieing off, and shooting up "with the love of a girl."

Then there is a period of escapement.

The second stanza is more about the effect heroin has on his life. A chosen path, the late nights, and devistation heroin has caused on his life (heavy the fall). He is tormented by his addiction.

I just love the bass line.

This song, whether it be about heroin or not, is about wasting your life over something that can never be fulfilling as you need to to.

I think the drug reference is a clever euphamism - playing on the fact that drugs are often discussed in songs via talk of a woman. The first line is a reference to cards tho, thus gamling. And the major vices are considered to be Drink, Drugs, Gambling and Womanising.

I think it's about someone trying to escape from themselves within these vices instead of facing their demons.

I find the song in general has a really trancy feeling to it. The repeated descending guitar phrase, the over reverbed guitar sweeps and chugs.

this is Recorded using binaural recording methods, it sounds eerie and cool

Mike: Yeah, well I enjoyed that song. It kind of had a…thank you very much…it had kind of a Stonesy vibe to it too, Mick Taylor being one of my favourite guitar players around too, and I like Clapton a lot too. I think that song lent itself to playing that way, and hopefully I achieved that. We recorded it in kind of the analog sense. We actually opened up with it last night, and it's kind of a cool way to open up a show, I found. Yeah, those guys are my guitar heroes, and that kind of sound. I wanted to, when I heard Stone play it for the first time, it was like, yeah, I could just do something like that over it. And it came out pretty cool, I think.

Eddie: It's a type of recording that's called binaural recording. There's several ways to do it, whether there's two microphones clipped here [motions to both temples by ear], to not just record the instruments, but record the air around the instruments. You can hear, there's a song called Of The Girl. You know you can hear Mike's, Mike McCready's guitar. You can really feel the space of the room. That is something that you kind of miss from modern recordings, which may be done on pro tools or computer or... It's just a micing technique but I think we were successful capturing some of the moods that happened in the room by adding some of that room sound. Worldbeat Interview on CNN, broadcast June 11, 2000; London, England

For a while i thought Ed sang in the end:

" He fills his knife with the blood of a girl "

thinking its another song about a killer who acts out of a twisted lack of love in his life.. maybe a man who was involved with a girl who left him and then he killed her in a crime of passion.

I was wrong, the song is different. More about someone fixating too much on a girl i think. Anyway great song.