most of the lines are about pot... beutiful, beautiful pot.
Or maybe its about the desire to legalize pot being crushed by an obstinate government.
this song is from 1998 or so, right?
So once upon a time...
the Liberals are running Canada and a small number of Canadians are asking them to legalize pot...
The government says: "Don't tell me what the poets are doing in those Himalayas of the mind",
meaning, of course,
"don't tell me how great it is to get high, to the highest part of the mind, where the poetry, art, and beauty in the world come from. Don't tell me about that."
"Don't tell me what the poets are doing
In the long grasses over time..." Grass, again... is a pot puffed word (btw the lyrics are wrong right now)
Government vs. Pot is like culture v. nature... or Civilization and its Disconents.
The Canadian government doesn't want to know that all of the artists who produce culture for it are also on drugs. Art is born of a free mind, but the government wants the culture without the freedom/ Boo!
"Don't tell me what the poets are doing" they say
"Don't tell me what they do on the street, how they get paid, or how the bloody universe is altered when you try it!" Governments dont deal with the 'reality' of marijuana's prevelence in their country. They dont want to hear about it. Its never going to be legal, they say. The government is mean like that.
The obstinate government, identified in the lyrics as the "He who aims to be the Archetypal Father", does reach out an olive branch of peace to those liberals looking for some more freedom. Around the time this song was released, the Canadian government enacted a law that allowed women to be topless in public (unfortunately, Canadian women proved to have too much sense to take up this offer. Too bad for the men, but really its much too cold to go around topless). This legislation is the origin of the next line: "there's nothing more that you need now that your lawn is cut by bare breasted women", which is 'thanks to us' says the government. 'You're welcome for the topless women, so dont bother asking for anything more, like legalized pot. No way, hoser.' And thats why to this day (2011) possession of pot is illegal in Canada... because the liberals offered us public nudity instead. And that never panned out so everyone loses except the women.
That stroy is as true as any of the Hip's true histories, and more subtle than some of their other pot songs.
most of the lines are about pot... beutiful, beautiful pot. Or maybe its about the desire to legalize pot being crushed by an obstinate government. this song is from 1998 or so, right?
So once upon a time... the Liberals are running Canada and a small number of Canadians are asking them to legalize pot...
The government says: "Don't tell me what the poets are doing in those Himalayas of the mind", meaning, of course, "don't tell me how great it is to get high, to the highest part of the mind, where the poetry, art, and beauty in the world come from. Don't tell me about that." "Don't tell me what the poets are doing In the long grasses over time..." Grass, again... is a pot puffed word (btw the lyrics are wrong right now)
Government vs. Pot is like culture v. nature... or Civilization and its Disconents.
The Canadian government doesn't want to know that all of the artists who produce culture for it are also on drugs. Art is born of a free mind, but the government wants the culture without the freedom/ Boo! "Don't tell me what the poets are doing" they say "Don't tell me what they do on the street, how they get paid, or how the bloody universe is altered when you try it!" Governments dont deal with the 'reality' of marijuana's prevelence in their country. They dont want to hear about it. Its never going to be legal, they say. The government is mean like that.
The obstinate government, identified in the lyrics as the "He who aims to be the Archetypal Father", does reach out an olive branch of peace to those liberals looking for some more freedom. Around the time this song was released, the Canadian government enacted a law that allowed women to be topless in public (unfortunately, Canadian women proved to have too much sense to take up this offer. Too bad for the men, but really its much too cold to go around topless). This legislation is the origin of the next line: "there's nothing more that you need now that your lawn is cut by bare breasted women", which is 'thanks to us' says the government. 'You're welcome for the topless women, so dont bother asking for anything more, like legalized pot. No way, hoser.' And thats why to this day (2011) possession of pot is illegal in Canada... because the liberals offered us public nudity instead. And that never panned out so everyone loses except the women.
That stroy is as true as any of the Hip's true histories, and more subtle than some of their other pot songs.