This song is about somebody who loves someone who does not love him back; he seeks advice from a "witch doctor", who gives him a string of gibberish as his answer, which the main character then duly repeats back to his love interest.
However, the witch doctor is wiser than he seems, knowing that the gibberish will give the person whom he loves a subconscious, placebo-like excuse to lower their defences and come to love him; the fact that he was willing to go to such an extent to get her to fall for him will also help to convince her that he is the person that she wants to be with.
This also draws similarities with the effects of real witch doctors and alternative medicine, which seem to work either by chance or because the subconscious assumes that the problem should be solved, and so people perceive it as being so — this is how hypnosis works, and is able to create and allay psychological "blocks" which cause people to behave in certain ways, merely because they think they are supposed to.
This song is about somebody who loves someone who does not love him back; he seeks advice from a "witch doctor", who gives him a string of gibberish as his answer, which the main character then duly repeats back to his love interest.
However, the witch doctor is wiser than he seems, knowing that the gibberish will give the person whom he loves a subconscious, placebo-like excuse to lower their defences and come to love him; the fact that he was willing to go to such an extent to get her to fall for him will also help to convince her that he is the person that she wants to be with.
This also draws similarities with the effects of real witch doctors and alternative medicine, which seem to work either by chance or because the subconscious assumes that the problem should be solved, and so people perceive it as being so — this is how hypnosis works, and is able to create and allay psychological "blocks" which cause people to behave in certain ways, merely because they think they are supposed to.