This album is my favorite album of all time, but I had never really paid any mind to this song. This song is beautifully done, just like every RHCP song. I think this song is about a guy who meets an amazing girl (in whom he falls deeply in love with) and "Stadium Arcadium" is the mental state/place that she sends him. "state of the art until the clouds come crashing" is saying that this place and the feelings she gives him will never be outdone or met. I think that "tedious weeds that the media breeds, but the animal gets what the animal needs" is saying that he has been influenced or corrupted by drugs, and because of that he feels he isn't good enough for her and that it will never work out. He keeps pushing and trying, however. With "stranger things have happened both before and afternoon" he is saying the concept of it working out between them is a stretch, but you just never know; anything's possible and maybe someday things will work out. This is my interpretation of the song, and I think it's correct. It fits my situation almost identically.
This album is my favorite album of all time, but I had never really paid any mind to this song. This song is beautifully done, just like every RHCP song. I think this song is about a guy who meets an amazing girl (in whom he falls deeply in love with) and "Stadium Arcadium" is the mental state/place that she sends him. "state of the art until the clouds come crashing" is saying that this place and the feelings she gives him will never be outdone or met. I think that "tedious weeds that the media breeds, but the animal gets what the animal needs" is saying that he has been influenced or corrupted by drugs, and because of that he feels he isn't good enough for her and that it will never work out. He keeps pushing and trying, however. With "stranger things have happened both before and afternoon" he is saying the concept of it working out between them is a stretch, but you just never know; anything's possible and maybe someday things will work out. This is my interpretation of the song, and I think it's correct. It fits my situation almost identically.