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Cloudy
The sky is gray and white and cloudy
Sometimes I think it's hanging down on me
And it's a hitchhike a hundred miles
I'm a rag-a-muffin child
Pointed finger-painted smile
I left my shadow waiting down the road for me a while
Cloudy
My thoughts are scattered and they're cloudy
They have no borders, no boundaries
They echo and they swell
From Tolstoy to Tinker Bell
Down from Berkeley to Carmel
Got some pictures in my pocket and a lot of time to kill
Hey sunshine
I haven't seen you in a long time
Why don't you show your face and bend my mind?
These clouds stick to the sky
Like a floating question, why?
And they linger there to die
They don't know where they are going
And, my friend, neither do I
Cloudy
Cloudy
Cloudy
Cloudy
Cloudy
The sky is gray and white and cloudy
Sometimes I think it's hanging down on me
And it's a hitchhike a hundred miles
I'm a rag-a-muffin child
Pointed finger-painted smile
I left my shadow waiting down the road for me a while
Cloudy
My thoughts are scattered and they're cloudy
They have no borders, no boundaries
They echo and they swell
From Tolstoy to Tinker Bell
Down from Berkeley to Carmel
Got some pictures in my pocket and a lot of time to kill
Hey sunshine
I haven't seen you in a long time
Why don't you show your face and bend my mind?
These clouds stick to the sky
Like a floating question, why?
And they linger there to die
They don't know where they are going
And, my friend, neither do I
Cloudy
Cloudy
Cloudy
Cloudy
Cloudy
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Methinks it's just a whimsical happy song of a cloudy day. The kind you want to stay at home and sip a hot drink and stare outside. The views on this song are so diverse! Everyone seems to have a different take.
does anyone know what a ragamuffin child is?
@musicalbacon <br /> <br /> Ragga muffin child<br /> <br /> Someone wearing old, dirty, worn clothing. In the time this song was written it wasn't uncommon to hitchhike across country or travel together in a group. Abandoning the establishment. <br /> <br /> So you would have the under 30s traveling and would be wearing the same clothes day to day.
A scoundrel or a scamp, I presume. I simply love the way he reads that line. It sounds so innnocent but mischievous. Really like the whole song, comes together just really well and all tinkly and pretty!
Agree with fixable, this song seems to be about drugs or mental illness
"My thoughts are scattered and they're cloudy"
The more you listen to it, the more you can feel there's a subtle undercurrent of impulsion and paranoia actually - for example:
"Sometimes I think it's hanging down on me."
"Got some pictures in my pocket and a lot of time to kill."
"Why don't you show your face and bend my mind?"
"And they linger there to die."
Overall the song is just kinda gentle and random, but I feel there's a sort of weird impulsiveness there too.
@pikmindoctor or chronic depression.
i think it's about a gloomy day.