This is one of the more daring songs on the first album. It is a song that sounds like it should be on the second album...and the lyrics are more like those of the second album.
Shannon said "Columbus clouds" instead of "Cumulus Clouds" he does this quite a bit on all of the albums..using symbolism and nonsense to keep the meter of the song, or to add extra meaning. Shakespeare did this very well too.
By saying columbus he gives the impression that those rain clouds are coming into a previously blue sky. They were the pioneering clouds in a formerly cloudless day kind of a thing...but still lets you know that they are cumulus clouds.
In "Mouthful of Cavities" he says: One of these days this will die/ so will me and so will you"
Listen to the song and realize that "so will me" is nonsense, gibberish, or at least bad grammar, yet it fits so well into the song, not only in the lyrics but in the meter. Listen to Blind Melon with this in mind and I think you will be able to enjoy them on a whole new level!
Five fed up faces with an itch to kill a king....that in itself is a great line!
This is one of the more daring songs on the first album. It is a song that sounds like it should be on the second album...and the lyrics are more like those of the second album. Shannon said "Columbus clouds" instead of "Cumulus Clouds" he does this quite a bit on all of the albums..using symbolism and nonsense to keep the meter of the song, or to add extra meaning. Shakespeare did this very well too.
By saying columbus he gives the impression that those rain clouds are coming into a previously blue sky. They were the pioneering clouds in a formerly cloudless day kind of a thing...but still lets you know that they are cumulus clouds.
In "Mouthful of Cavities" he says: One of these days this will die/ so will me and so will you" Listen to the song and realize that "so will me" is nonsense, gibberish, or at least bad grammar, yet it fits so well into the song, not only in the lyrics but in the meter. Listen to Blind Melon with this in mind and I think you will be able to enjoy them on a whole new level!
Five fed up faces with an itch to kill a king....that in itself is a great line!