Swallowed Lyrics

Lyric discussion by babyelf 

Cover art for Swallowed lyrics by Bush

song writers like metaphors. It has to mean something and make sense to them... and it leaves the listener to interperate it himself. Every song has a different meaning to each different person who listens. Music is beautiful that way. How i love metaphors

(although i cant seem to figure out this song... has no meaning to me i guess... good song though.)

@babyelf The song is about drugs - plain and simple. Drugs can be ingested (“swallowed”) smoked (“blackened lungs”) or injected (“fish hook”)

This guy is strung out and at times has the euphoria of using and feeling the BS ‘collective consciousness’ (“I’m with everyone and yet not”) those drugged out hippies from the ‘60s extolled about( think Beatles “come together right now, over me”) when he’s coming down or even in between hits he’s an addict who stuck “like a worm on a fish hook”, or in his case and addict stuck to the needle.

The sorrowed...

@babyelf @toms2022 I agree with TomS. Another line that convinces me its about drugs is 'I slip some boil away' - before injecting drugs users have to cook it to boil away impurities.