Clouds Lyrics

Lyric discussion by allturnblack 

Cover art for Clouds lyrics by Hole

I think this song is about a person who uses drugs in order to run away from the problems in his life."Rows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere" sounds like somthing that a person on drugs will see."As every fairy tale comes real" is the desription of this person to his new life as somone who doesn't need to take care of things and responsibilities,like we would sometimes dream we could do.acid is a clue of using "LSD" weich is a powerful psychedelic drug."When you die i've looked at life that way":Somone important in this person lives died and that was a critical cause of the person starting using drugs oftenely in order to run away from reality."But now it's just another show you leave 'em laughing when you go":helping people stop using drugs gives to the people who are doing so very good image but sometimes those people only care about the image issue and are actually mocking this person behind his back for being a drug addict. "So so don't let them inside, don't let them know don't give yourself ohh away":You shouldn't let fake people be a major part of you life and you shouldn't share personal experiences with them,"let them know" about you. "But now my friends are acting strange,they shake their heads man they say I've changed well well something's lost rearranged from living every every every I've"-This person's friends start getting away from him because they are feeling his drug addiction changed him,but what they don't understand is that drugs are this person's way to run away from a painful change is his life,possibly the other person's death that has been mentioned before. "I've looked at clouds from both sides now,from up and down, and still somehow i'ts just illusions I recall":Looking "up" at clouds is being sober,like wer'e doing oftenely.I believe that "Looking down at clouds" is when a person is on drugs because the term of "high" is usually also being used to describe Tallness. "It's just illusions I recall" means that because of this person's often use of drugs(probably LSD like I said before) he can't seperate between illusions and actual memories.The last part of the song sounds somthing like a person "on trip" would think.