haven't heard yet but you can bet I'm not with that
with that talk with the digi walk
I struck a bird you heard absurd word to the fact
I'm a cat, nippin' sippin' on the flask
passin' it talkin' s--t but only if you a--
in front of me cause you could run from me but
in the end revenge send ends to the defendant
I cant get caught in the spiral
cause every bit of energy it goes to my survival
out my way, I'm a flicka flacka blotter
ya try to find a weakness but the s--t keeps gettin' harder
with Lucy in sky
I remember pine trees and the coat of many colors
I was nineteen
I'd do anything
s--t like that now scares me but I'd like to do it again
It was Independence day
I've seen the other side and I say
oh, I've been insane
and I wont ever be the same
first to flow, Nickel my brother so wise
and then I rise
here's an ill kid pimpin' cuz he is so slick
steps from darkness, his body electric
a drone buzzes the air a cracklin' tone
then boomin' like thunder in a cosmic jungle
death defyin' like Knievel he weeble
words that will wobble awkwards and evil
cuz he flow and rock the hardest of the crowds
a marvel pow how you like me now
I've returned the kiss of death the last Damien
from the abyss fresh eternal alien
now famished from pathless ways I'ma do damage
to the wack MC's I know you cant stand this
right about now get down, I'm the annihilator
rockin' with the rhythm of my rhyme detonator
with Lucy in sky
I remember pine trees and the coat of many colors
I was nineteen
I'd do anything
s--t like that now scares me but I'd like to do it again
It was Independence day
I've seen the other side and I say
oh, I've been insane
and I wont ever be the same
its about an acid trip... thats why very little of it makes sence... i shit you not... thats what its really about...
yup...that's what it's about. Nick made a comment about it before they did it live once...damn..i wish i could remember what he said...but..yeah..it's about LSD.
i dont care what its about, cuz this is one of 311s best songs, cuz its full of so much energy and has a phat rhythm to it!
4th of july with lucy in sky..
shit like that scares me cause of some of the words to this song....It was Independence day I've seen the other side and I say oh, I've been insane and I wont ever be the same with those words they saved me from making a mistake.wow
my bro was on that otherside (not with LSD though) and whoah, he will never be the same, but he is fine now.
It's about an acid trip, definitely. "Lucy in sky" is obvious, "I'd do anything" is about how he was experimental, and the "coat of many colors" certainly and maybe the "pine trees" are what he saw when he was on the trip. And the title "Homebrew" means that he made his own at home.
I might be wrong though about 1 or 2 of the lines... I'm not an expert or experienced with drugs. But it's surely about an acid trip.
i've always thought that the song was about taking mushrooms because of the title homebrew. you can brew up some mushroom tea, but i'm not sure you really "brew" lsd.
most likely acid, because he says that shit scares him, which acid really does while shroomin is supposed to be more mellow, less intense and mind-opening. (Plus I think he did shrooms a lot more often, ie: "Trip the shrooms fantastic shit gets drastic")....anyways yea thats what i imagine
notice also that he mentions "blotter"... and white blotter is a very common type of acid