Lyric discussion by allthings_mustpass 

Cover art for My Friend lyrics by Jimi Hendrix Experience, The

hey mav1986, the whole song is full of...how should i say? well let's call it "trippin-on-acid-trying-to-sound-like-dylan-cause-he's-my-idol" type of writting. To me the only lines that make sense are the ones about how his only friend is himself. that much is clear about the song. the rest however....i mean, does "A stagecouch full of feathers and footprints rolls up to my soap box door" make any sense?? anyways, you gotta love Hendrix. absolutely the greatest fucking genius that ever lived.

I actually make a lot of sense out of the before quoted line. "A stagecouch full of feathers and footprints rolls up to my soap box door" A stagecoach full of feathers and footprints is talking about how a spoiled, rich person, (They are rich because of the feathers, or expensive clothing, and footprints meaning the rowdiness and drama that is made about them) pulls up to his "soap-box door" This meaning a poor, old house that is in a bad part of town, it almost as if he is homeless, all he has left is a cardboard house. That is...

I definitely agree on the acid trip on the stagecoach car(taxi perhaps), footprints could mean snow on the street and the tire tracks. If I\'m right then snow on the car would look like feathers if you\'re tripping off of acid.

I definitely agree on the acid trip on the stagecoach car(taxi perhaps), footprints could mean snow on the street and the tire tracks. If I\'m right then snow on the car would look like feathers if you\'re tripping off of acid.