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Clean as a whistle
Smellin' like a rose
She got no dirty little fingers
Bloodshot eyes are gone
Tell me I"m wrong
Twice as Hard
As it was the first time
I said goodbye
And no one ever wanna' know
Love ain't funny
A crime in the wink of an eye
Your sister always singing
She play the step child
A broken little memory
Her heart was never kind
Tell me I'm blind
(Repeat Chorus)
Yeah, bloodshot eyes are gone
Tell me I'm wrong
(Repeat Chorus 5 times)
Smellin' like a rose
She got no dirty little fingers
Bloodshot eyes are gone
As it was the first time
I said goodbye
Love ain't funny
A crime in the wink of an eye
She play the step child
A broken little memory
Her heart was never kind
Tell me I'm wrong
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Submitted by
spliphstar On Jan 04, 2002
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Musikman04 is mostly correct (in 2005). This guy left his woman because of drugs (1st goodbye). Then he comes back for her funeral (due to the drugs), and THAT goodbye was "twice as hard". "Tell me I'm wrong" means he is in denial of her death or at least wishing she wasn't. "no more bloodshot eyes" -- she's dead.
@kris&jeff yes, I think you are absolutely right. It is customary in the USA to dress dead people up and make them look better than they ever looked in real life. The expression clean as whistle in this case is a double message: because she was dressed for the coffin, but more so since she is dead, she is not under any addictive drugs anymore, hence clean. And yes, just because somebody is a drug addict, it doesn’t mean another person cannot love them strongly. He may also have remorse, since that would be a very natural reaction: if only I had helped...
@kris&jeff yes, I think you are absolutely right. It is customary in the USA to dress dead people up and make them look better than they ever looked in real life. The expression clean as whistle in this case is a double message: because she was dressed for the coffin, but more so since she is dead, she is not under any addictive drugs anymore, hence clean. And yes, just because somebody is a drug addict, it doesn’t mean another person cannot love them strongly. He may also have remorse, since that would be a very natural reaction: if only I had helped her more, or if only I had been there at that time to save her. Letting her go to her grave now is therefore twice as hard.
i never thought the lyrics were like this because i couldnt understand them. uhh, id like to tell what its about but its kinda confusing. anyway, its obviously about having to leave someone for a second time, so my best guess is that he left her once, came back, and now has to leave her again. not really sure, just my guess from what i can see.
I'm gonna say this song isn't about death or anything drug-related..
I am currently coming out of a relationship where my girl and I split up once already, and this is the 2nd time we're breaking up. I can tell you from experience that this time around is definitely "twice as hard". Actually, its harder, but "25,000 times as hard" isn't quite as singable =)
Maybe Chris isn't doing the breaking up, maybe he's being broken up with:
Clean as a whistle (a clean break) Smellin' like a rose (as in she "comes out smelling like a rose") She got no dirty little fingers (her hands are clean) Bloodshot eyes are gone (she's not crying this time)
Just my humble opinion..
kris and jeff is completely right. it also explains the line "smelling like a rose" because a comon way to traditionally purfume a corpse at a funeral is to lay roses in the casket. "noone ever wanna know|love aint funny" is kind of a revelation. its self explanatory; he knows now that sometimes love is a more serious, less lighthearted situation.
This is a great song. Twice as hard to belive that it's a skinny little pothead singing it. LOL :) My sister always said she could identify with the Robinson brothers aggression. Even though they never got as bad as the "Galaghers"(Oasis)-she&I did. LOL:)
hard to tell with so little lyrics, but probably someone dies from drugs and explaining that the real goodbye or (twice as hard as the first time i said goodbye) so he wants to here that he's wrong and it's not true. will someone else write!!!!
I think musikman is right about the drug thing, it's avery sad song but it has such an uplifting beat.
its so clearly about kicking a drugaddiction
@whokilledbob sorry, but it is not about kicking the addiction. It is about dying from an overdose. This girl probably lived on the streets, therefore her fingernails were always dirty, and she overdosed and died. The second goodbye is irreversible, therefore it is twice as hard.
@whokilledbob sorry, but it is not about kicking the addiction. It is about dying from an overdose. This girl probably lived on the streets, therefore her fingernails were always dirty, and she overdosed and died. The second goodbye is irreversible, therefore it is twice as hard.
Actually, never mind
Joe is correct, looking at the song line for line as opposed to a verse at a time. His theory also coincides with the line "her heart was never kind" suggesting she had a hand in the reason for leaving. this also goes along with love not being funny, for the same reasons
i see it as it is
but this song goes hard