At a show I saw, Brian said this song was about buying drugs and during the last chorus, he sang "pot" instead of fireworks.
I love the chorus. Just a simple look into a specific moment. Brian's paranoid about getting caught with the drugs, but everyone else in the car is just fooling around.
The rest is over my head. Climbing up a mountain to ride a skateboard down it is thrilling, but in the end, you're in the same place. You spend a lot of effort and energy walking up the mountain for a few seconds of fun during the ride down. Maybe he is questioning his drug use and whether or not it's worth it? In that case, the second verse doesn't fit in, though.
At a show I saw, Brian said this song was about buying drugs and during the last chorus, he sang "pot" instead of fireworks.
I love the chorus. Just a simple look into a specific moment. Brian's paranoid about getting caught with the drugs, but everyone else in the car is just fooling around.
The rest is over my head. Climbing up a mountain to ride a skateboard down it is thrilling, but in the end, you're in the same place. You spend a lot of effort and energy walking up the mountain for a few seconds of fun during the ride down. Maybe he is questioning his drug use and whether or not it's worth it? In that case, the second verse doesn't fit in, though.