Sometimes you have to LISTEN to the song to figure out what it is about. What I mean is, in this song, the emotion and emphasis comes in the chorus, especially the last half, where he smells her hair.
I'm not saying that I figured this out yet, but I have some ideas.
The chorus says: I want to screw you, you are as beautiful as a statue, as wondrous as the stars, but, but, BUT!!! There's a sickly scent in your hair.
Either it's the nauseating mixture of "cream rinse and tobacco smoke" or something else. My bet is on something else.
I thought of this because I used to know this girl, you know, friend of a friend of a friend... she was, like 16, and she used to... well, there's no other way to put it. She gave out free blowjobs to about anyone who asked. In addition, she was kind of trashy (bad hygeine)... to the point, she always had semen in her hair. I know a lot of guys don't have a really good sense of smell, but dried semen has a salty-sour, kind of rotten sweat smell. It could very well be called sickly.
Then again, so could second-hand tobacco smoke.
The semen theory makes the song incredibly disturbing when you notice that Jolene apparently lives with her father. EW!
I don't know... But I will agree, it seems that Jolene needs to be saved... from something.
Sometimes you have to LISTEN to the song to figure out what it is about. What I mean is, in this song, the emotion and emphasis comes in the chorus, especially the last half, where he smells her hair.
I'm not saying that I figured this out yet, but I have some ideas.
The chorus says: I want to screw you, you are as beautiful as a statue, as wondrous as the stars, but, but, BUT!!! There's a sickly scent in your hair.
Either it's the nauseating mixture of "cream rinse and tobacco smoke" or something else. My bet is on something else.
I thought of this because I used to know this girl, you know, friend of a friend of a friend... she was, like 16, and she used to... well, there's no other way to put it. She gave out free blowjobs to about anyone who asked. In addition, she was kind of trashy (bad hygeine)... to the point, she always had semen in her hair. I know a lot of guys don't have a really good sense of smell, but dried semen has a salty-sour, kind of rotten sweat smell. It could very well be called sickly.
Then again, so could second-hand tobacco smoke.
The semen theory makes the song incredibly disturbing when you notice that Jolene apparently lives with her father. EW!
I don't know... But I will agree, it seems that Jolene needs to be saved... from something.