The lyrics here appear without the background voices which sound angry and, I could swear, are saying something barely intelligible ending in the "N-word". At one point, the angry voice says that thing again and as it finishes, Ogre says the bit about her (the voice is female) puking "her point". For this reason, for the longest time I thought this song was about racism. Anger, insecurity and stupidity were all described against that angry, intermittent backdrop.
However, I know the band were involved in a lot of drug abuse- particularly at the time this song was done. The engineer died from a heroin overdose. "...push down with the purest crystal around...push it in..." invokes images of drug abuse. So now I'm thinking this song was written about Mick Jagger's gardener (see Jumpin Jack Flash).
The lyrics here appear without the background voices which sound angry and, I could swear, are saying something barely intelligible ending in the "N-word". At one point, the angry voice says that thing again and as it finishes, Ogre says the bit about her (the voice is female) puking "her point". For this reason, for the longest time I thought this song was about racism. Anger, insecurity and stupidity were all described against that angry, intermittent backdrop.
However, I know the band were involved in a lot of drug abuse- particularly at the time this song was done. The engineer died from a heroin overdose. "...push down with the purest crystal around...push it in..." invokes images of drug abuse. So now I'm thinking this song was written about Mick Jagger's gardener (see Jumpin Jack Flash).