im surprised there haven't been more interpretations here. These lyrics have a pretty deep meaning to me, even though its delivered pretty uptempo and not always too coherently. so, line by line...
He was just going through life as his fathers before him, trying to make a connection to a girl just as someone did with her mother before. She excites his senses and he wants to treat her kindly.
The dance on the plains is his joyous activites with his girl. A dance is an embrace of the moment, in a beautiful natural surrounding like a plain. He "shakes her shoulders", like exciting her in a playful and innocent way. She lays him down in another natural setting (grains) and they embrace like lovers. The "pow, pow, now, now" could be any number of things, from the badass impact of the moments with her, or how they are together, or how she is, or the motion of sex (another beautiful embrace in keeping with what he mentions earlier and with the manically melodic sound of the chorus).
He is delighted by natural and simple joys of life;he also enjoys all the tribulations in life, the constant conflict and resolution. He doesn't plan ahead because you never know whats going to happen, and he can't be decisive about plans if either his girl keeps him distracted in the bed, or maybe he stays up and dwells on possibilities at night and that allows people to disrupt his natural state.
(I LOVE THIS BRIDGE)
He wonders about all the changes he (and people in general) has undergone since being born and it might be because he has lost innocence and isn't that simple happy person anymore (the "apple eating people", enjoying and feeding off nature and life). "Empty out their pockets" sems pretty straightforward; they have given all they had away and are they left with nothing, after "debas[ing] their younger faces." You must make certain that you enjoy those years and are left happy when you leave the "summer" season of your life. The "pretty little femur" is a big part of your natural composition, just like your inborn innocence and wonder in the world (basically natural parts of you that are good. the "cherry dream boat" in which it sits is his natural ideal place). He would be sad if such a natural, vital, "pretty" part of himself would leave him; how it would leave him could be any number of ways and/or socially imposed processes. If he were to "sail away from continents," or dissociate himself from society (but not his lover), and embrace aspects of that which he most loves ("touch [his] lover's hair") then the natural parts of his being would be in happy peace. He is anxious in some crossroads decision about connections with people, maybe just one person (the lover); there is the outright admission of afffection and request for company, each followed by a conditional statement ('but you don't need to..") that doesn't wholly give oneself to others (not 'give' in the sense of sacrifice, more like wholehearted emotion).
I have been listening to it pretty nonstop and more lately after reading the words. It is so drenched in badassness; i really can't think of another band like this
im surprised there haven't been more interpretations here. These lyrics have a pretty deep meaning to me, even though its delivered pretty uptempo and not always too coherently. so, line by line...
He was just going through life as his fathers before him, trying to make a connection to a girl just as someone did with her mother before. She excites his senses and he wants to treat her kindly. The dance on the plains is his joyous activites with his girl. A dance is an embrace of the moment, in a beautiful natural surrounding like a plain. He "shakes her shoulders", like exciting her in a playful and innocent way. She lays him down in another natural setting (grains) and they embrace like lovers. The "pow, pow, now, now" could be any number of things, from the badass impact of the moments with her, or how they are together, or how she is, or the motion of sex (another beautiful embrace in keeping with what he mentions earlier and with the manically melodic sound of the chorus).
He is delighted by natural and simple joys of life;he also enjoys all the tribulations in life, the constant conflict and resolution. He doesn't plan ahead because you never know whats going to happen, and he can't be decisive about plans if either his girl keeps him distracted in the bed, or maybe he stays up and dwells on possibilities at night and that allows people to disrupt his natural state. (I LOVE THIS BRIDGE) He wonders about all the changes he (and people in general) has undergone since being born and it might be because he has lost innocence and isn't that simple happy person anymore (the "apple eating people", enjoying and feeding off nature and life). "Empty out their pockets" sems pretty straightforward; they have given all they had away and are they left with nothing, after "debas[ing] their younger faces." You must make certain that you enjoy those years and are left happy when you leave the "summer" season of your life. The "pretty little femur" is a big part of your natural composition, just like your inborn innocence and wonder in the world (basically natural parts of you that are good. the "cherry dream boat" in which it sits is his natural ideal place). He would be sad if such a natural, vital, "pretty" part of himself would leave him; how it would leave him could be any number of ways and/or socially imposed processes. If he were to "sail away from continents," or dissociate himself from society (but not his lover), and embrace aspects of that which he most loves ("touch [his] lover's hair") then the natural parts of his being would be in happy peace. He is anxious in some crossroads decision about connections with people, maybe just one person (the lover); there is the outright admission of afffection and request for company, each followed by a conditional statement ('but you don't need to..") that doesn't wholly give oneself to others (not 'give' in the sense of sacrifice, more like wholehearted emotion). I have been listening to it pretty nonstop and more lately after reading the words. It is so drenched in badassness; i really can't think of another band like this