Is he drinking jade as though it were wine? or drinking a 'jade-like' wine? ...unclear. The phrasing has always made me think of absinthe... the swirly milky yellow-green of louched absinthe is like liquid jade. And if one is drinking absinthe as though it were wine, that's going to get you to a strange place rather quickly. I don't know what the song is about, but it's always made me think of someone who has been cast out or rejected, and doesn't mind, or is defiant about it.. thrown out into the cold and drinking fast to get drunk/warm/oblivious. In any case, it's a beautiful, haunted, haunting song. the guitar work is stellar.
Is he drinking jade as though it were wine? or drinking a 'jade-like' wine? ...unclear. The phrasing has always made me think of absinthe... the swirly milky yellow-green of louched absinthe is like liquid jade. And if one is drinking absinthe as though it were wine, that's going to get you to a strange place rather quickly. I don't know what the song is about, but it's always made me think of someone who has been cast out or rejected, and doesn't mind, or is defiant about it.. thrown out into the cold and drinking fast to get drunk/warm/oblivious. In any case, it's a beautiful, haunted, haunting song. the guitar work is stellar.