Sweet Up & Down.. what can i say? This is one of his best songs live. I have a 3 cd set of the concert on 12/23/03 and sweet up and down is on it... I've played it back many times, and to me it sounds like the guy's about to "get busy" with a girl he's very attracted to, but then he thinks about the girl he actually Loves and can't go through with the deed. Sweet up and down is most definately about sex.
"Inside-out, her neat little pose
Dirty, little girl
Climbs out of the hole in her own"
He's describing the girl getting herself off in front of him while he's thinking the song in his head.
"I believe in love
But believe it's my heart that keeps turning me down."
He believes in the physical act of making love... but it's his relationship with another girl (his heart) that prevents him from making love /w this new girl.
"I believe in love
But think nothing about it when you're not around "
He's saying here that he has no love for this new girl.
"Pig he needs to eat like us all
Not far from the beast
Man sits down to feast on this part "
He like every other man has certain sexual cravings that must be satisfied, a pig must eat, a man must make love. The last line of the quote he relates to the previous two; he says that men use this excuse of everyone having certain desires all too often to justify it.
I apologize for the long post, but i don't think the song was getting the attention it deserved.
Sweet Up & Down.. what can i say? This is one of his best songs live. I have a 3 cd set of the concert on 12/23/03 and sweet up and down is on it... I've played it back many times, and to me it sounds like the guy's about to "get busy" with a girl he's very attracted to, but then he thinks about the girl he actually Loves and can't go through with the deed. Sweet up and down is most definately about sex.
"Inside-out, her neat little pose Dirty, little girl Climbs out of the hole in her own"
He's describing the girl getting herself off in front of him while he's thinking the song in his head.
"I believe in love But believe it's my heart that keeps turning me down."
He believes in the physical act of making love... but it's his relationship with another girl (his heart) that prevents him from making love /w this new girl.
"I believe in love But think nothing about it when you're not around "
He's saying here that he has no love for this new girl.
"Pig he needs to eat like us all Not far from the beast Man sits down to feast on this part "
He like every other man has certain sexual cravings that must be satisfied, a pig must eat, a man must make love. The last line of the quote he relates to the previous two; he says that men use this excuse of everyone having certain desires all too often to justify it.
I apologize for the long post, but i don't think the song was getting the attention it deserved.