the bus <i>arrived</i>...yes, like a <i>badge</i>...i believe, tho i'm not sure, it is <i>foam</i>, eat it, drink...<i>in</i> saddness...
anyhow...peter buck wrote the music and when he played if for michael stipe he remembered this letter he wrote to river phoenix shortly before he died but never got to send...he pulled out the unsent letter and, although it was written in prose, it had such a powerful meter that it transfered right into the song...anyhow, about river phoenix's drug addiction and how easy it is to get caught up in ur success and not realize ur mistakes...
...i didn't really understand it, but i read a very scientifically presented account of wat the aluminum reference meant...it's sumthin like, when ur afraid ur body secretes metal-like substances and u get the taste of aluminum in ur mouth...very obscure reference indeed...the paranoia brought on by drugs brings about feelings of fear, and that taste of aluminum in ur mouth...also, the "tinfoil tiaras" r used for taking speed or cocaine
there's a few things wrong w/ this...
the bus <i>arrived</i>...yes, like a <i>badge</i>...i believe, tho i'm not sure, it is <i>foam</i>, eat it, drink...<i>in</i> saddness...
anyhow...peter buck wrote the music and when he played if for michael stipe he remembered this letter he wrote to river phoenix shortly before he died but never got to send...he pulled out the unsent letter and, although it was written in prose, it had such a powerful meter that it transfered right into the song...anyhow, about river phoenix's drug addiction and how easy it is to get caught up in ur success and not realize ur mistakes...
...i didn't really understand it, but i read a very scientifically presented account of wat the aluminum reference meant...it's sumthin like, when ur afraid ur body secretes metal-like substances and u get the taste of aluminum in ur mouth...very obscure reference indeed...the paranoia brought on by drugs brings about feelings of fear, and that taste of aluminum in ur mouth...also, the "tinfoil tiaras" r used for taking speed or cocaine