Hazlewood confesses that he doesn’t actually know what the enigmatic lyrics mean. "It’s not meant to mean so much,” Hazlewood will tell Eye Magazine. "I’m not a druggie, so it was never to do with that.” When Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra tour together two decades later, she would lament on stage, "I’ve been singing this song for over 20 years and I still don’t know what the damned thing means.” Hazlewood’s cryptic rely is "Ask me some velvet morning when I’m straight.”
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Hazlewood confesses that he doesn’t actually know what the enigmatic lyrics mean. "It’s not meant to mean so much,” Hazlewood will tell Eye Magazine. "I’m not a druggie, so it was never to do with that.” When Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra tour together two decades later, she would lament on stage, "I’ve been singing this song for over 20 years and I still don’t know what the damned thing means.” Hazlewood’s cryptic rely is "Ask me some velvet morning when I’m straight.”