A lot of great ideas thrown around, I really enjoyed reading them. When I first heard this song, the romantic side to me thought it was a love song. After a lot of thought, I've changed my mind though... I think he provides dual meanings, one about love, one about the realization for the need to be sober. Almost a love song written toward drugs.
There's a few corrections to the lyrics (already showed right above me)
"Cause it's cold in here, and I wish it was hot."
then
"Well, my money's no good when I'm up to no good. No good ever comes from it, honest."
The second one is pretty vital to the analysis of the song, honestly. Some background... Easy Tiger is right during Ryan's struggle overcoming his drug addiction. I mean, the cover itself has him sitting there looking at his watch which reads 4:20. He's smoking a cigarette, which kind of shows his anxiety trying to stay away from drugs.
"If you take me back, back to your place... The sink's broke it's leaking from a faucet."
The speaker is somewhere he/she (I'll use he for the rest) doesn't want to be. Everything's broken, cold, etc.. You can imagine that someone who has been a drug addict for the past few years hasn't taken much care of their sink, maybe hasn't paid their heating bill... They want to be somewhere else, anywhere else. Literally, and metaphorically. He's reaching out for help.
"Fractured... from the fall, and I wanna go home."
Drugs have fractured the life of the speaker. He's crippled, and needs to get back "home," to a place of comfort and normality. Longs to be back to how he once was.
"It takes two when it used to take one."
You know your drug addictions getting bad when you need two instead of one...
"My money's no good, when I'm up to no good. No good ever comes from it, honest."
Self explanatory. I think this quote is one of the strongest supports for the argument. Speaker is saying the money is no good when you only use it from drugs. If you only use money from drugs, no good ever comes from money, honestly.
"I've gotta really good heart, I just can't catch a break... If I could I'd treat you like you wanted me to, I promise."
Perhaps this is the speakers way of showing us why he needs to stop this addiction. He has lost the one he loves due to it. He's got a good heart, and if he could get sober he'd be everything she wanted. (If you guys know, one of the reasons Adams wanted to get sober is because he lost a lover because of it. And guess who? His new wife, if I'm not mistaken!)
One of the beauty to Ryan's music is that he writes it with so many different levels that multiple interpretations are possible. Beautiful song.
no you got man, its about shooting tar. In the song writers world money some times is a metaphor for heroine. Look no further then gram parsons, "I I had his money," ,and then whiskeytowns, hometown. When the money gets tied.
no you got man, its about shooting tar. In the song writers world money some times is a metaphor for heroine. Look no further then gram parsons, "I I had his money," ,and then whiskeytowns, hometown. When the money gets tied.
A lot of great ideas thrown around, I really enjoyed reading them. When I first heard this song, the romantic side to me thought it was a love song. After a lot of thought, I've changed my mind though... I think he provides dual meanings, one about love, one about the realization for the need to be sober. Almost a love song written toward drugs. There's a few corrections to the lyrics (already showed right above me)
"Cause it's cold in here, and I wish it was hot." then "Well, my money's no good when I'm up to no good. No good ever comes from it, honest."
The second one is pretty vital to the analysis of the song, honestly. Some background... Easy Tiger is right during Ryan's struggle overcoming his drug addiction. I mean, the cover itself has him sitting there looking at his watch which reads 4:20. He's smoking a cigarette, which kind of shows his anxiety trying to stay away from drugs.
"If you take me back, back to your place... The sink's broke it's leaking from a faucet." The speaker is somewhere he/she (I'll use he for the rest) doesn't want to be. Everything's broken, cold, etc.. You can imagine that someone who has been a drug addict for the past few years hasn't taken much care of their sink, maybe hasn't paid their heating bill... They want to be somewhere else, anywhere else. Literally, and metaphorically. He's reaching out for help.
"Fractured... from the fall, and I wanna go home." Drugs have fractured the life of the speaker. He's crippled, and needs to get back "home," to a place of comfort and normality. Longs to be back to how he once was.
"It takes two when it used to take one." You know your drug addictions getting bad when you need two instead of one...
"My money's no good, when I'm up to no good. No good ever comes from it, honest." Self explanatory. I think this quote is one of the strongest supports for the argument. Speaker is saying the money is no good when you only use it from drugs. If you only use money from drugs, no good ever comes from money, honestly.
"I've gotta really good heart, I just can't catch a break... If I could I'd treat you like you wanted me to, I promise." Perhaps this is the speakers way of showing us why he needs to stop this addiction. He has lost the one he loves due to it. He's got a good heart, and if he could get sober he'd be everything she wanted. (If you guys know, one of the reasons Adams wanted to get sober is because he lost a lover because of it. And guess who? His new wife, if I'm not mistaken!)
One of the beauty to Ryan's music is that he writes it with so many different levels that multiple interpretations are possible. Beautiful song.
no you got man, its about shooting tar. In the song writers world money some times is a metaphor for heroine. Look no further then gram parsons, "I I had his money," ,and then whiskeytowns, hometown. When the money gets tied.
no you got man, its about shooting tar. In the song writers world money some times is a metaphor for heroine. Look no further then gram parsons, "I I had his money," ,and then whiskeytowns, hometown. When the money gets tied.