I'm floating in the blimp a lot
I feel the feeling I forgot
Swimming weightless in the womb
Bouncing gently round the room
In a minute I'll be free
And we'll be splashing in the sea
I feel no curiosity
I see the path ahead of me
In a minute I'll be free
And we'll be splashing in the sea
We hear a tiny cry
As the ship goes sliding by
Free!
Free!
Free!
I'm floating in the blimp a lot
I feel the feeling I forgot
I'm floating in the blimp a lot
I feel free!
Free!
Free!
Free!
Free!
I feel the feeling I forgot
Swimming weightless in the womb
Bouncing gently round the room
In a minute I'll be free
And we'll be splashing in the sea
I see the path ahead of me
In a minute I'll be free
And we'll be splashing in the sea
We hear a tiny cry
As the ship goes sliding by
Free!
I feel the feeling I forgot
I'm floating in the blimp a lot
I feel free!
Free!
Free!
Free!
Free!
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Its about being born.
I see the path ahead of me In a minute I'll be free
The music itself gives that sense of entering a new world. The first note has that big "boom" feeling to it, then suddenly dies down, just like when a baby is born and theres tons of loud noises, but once its over, everything is quiet and people are just left to awe at the new life.
Great song.. first time I heard was live at Cincinnati in 2000.. I thought the song was about our birth. It's about an embryo pushing through the birth channel. And that famous splash had something more positive than somebody killing their wife..
this songs great. word
I am either high, I am a balloon, or I am a sperm free to complete the long swim to the ovum. I think the last one is a far stretch from the truth but I love this song. Classic tune, will go down as one of the best psychedelic songs like "Ina-Gotta-Da-Vita".
This song can also describe their jams at the end of most of their songs. They have highs and lows, and just kinda drift..."Floating in the blimp a lot"...
skemodan, i agree mostly. it dam sure is about being born, possibly born again, in a different way (no, not that way :P)
i think its about finally understanding life. once you understand something like that, you are really on top of the world. free.
but also mabey the ability to control and confine that understanding to yourself, as it would be unique, and be able to use it to your advantage in this world.
rly cool song i love how treys voice bleeds into the song excelent.
Those lyrics are wrong, it is "and you'll be splashing in the sea"
The song is really talking about a man who wants to throw his wife overboard.
@aaronman -- you're (unfortunately) right. I used to think this song was about the miracle of childbirth, and, as a father, I liked that myth and found lyrical support for it (the "blimp" of she who is pregnant; the explicit mention of "womb"; the "tiny cry" of a newborn; the "free!" exclamation of the chorus). But I now know, from the Dude of Life no less, that these lyrics are really describing being so fucking pissed off at your wife/partner/girlfriend/blow-up-doll that you fantasize about what it would be like to throw her overboard on a cruise ship: "in a minute,...
@aaronman -- you're (unfortunately) right. I used to think this song was about the miracle of childbirth, and, as a father, I liked that myth and found lyrical support for it (the "blimp" of she who is pregnant; the explicit mention of "womb"; the "tiny cry" of a newborn; the "free!" exclamation of the chorus). But I now know, from the Dude of Life no less, that these lyrics are really describing being so fucking pissed off at your wife/partner/girlfriend/blow-up-doll that you fantasize about what it would be like to throw her overboard on a cruise ship: "in a minute, I'll be free/ and she'll be splashing in the sea/ We hear a tiny cry, as the ship goes sliding by." It gives me no comfort to confirm this interpretation, but, as Vonnegut wrote, so it goes. If you, like a new mother, must cling to the innocent interpretation, so be it, but now you know the truth, even if you choose to willfully ignore it. Parallel: "Silent in the Morning" is about wishing your wife/partner/girlfriend/blow-up-doll would shut the fuck up until you've had your morning coffee/bong-rip.
it could be being born, understanding life, or pushing his wife overboard honestly.... but the firts time i heard it the impression i got was that it was about heroin. we all know trey does it... and he's talking about "feeling the feeling he forgot" and floating... etc
Yea, well Trey didn't write the song, so its not about Trey's drug addiction. Tom Marshall wrote it.