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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 floating questions, why?
And they linger there to die.
They don't know where they are going, and, my friend, neither do I.
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.
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.
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 floating questions, why?
And they linger there to die.
They don't know where they are going, and, my friend, neither do I.
Cloudy.
Song Info
Submitted by
kevin On May 21, 2001
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This song perfectly captures the essence of being high. On what, that's up to you.. "My thoughts are scattered and they're cloudy..."
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
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Ragga muffin child
Ragga muffin child
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.
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.
So you would have the under 30s traveling and would be wearing the same clothes day to day.
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.
@pikmindoctor or chronic depression.
i think it's about a gloomy day.