This is a great song. It is clearly about drugs with a nod to the Grateful dead's "Sugar Magnolia". He gets so upset with the ways of the cruel world that he wants to disappear to Magnolia Mountain (get high) and "steady his soul and ease his worry". The words "rocks, heavy, and fly" are purposefully used, as is the phrase "rattle like a hummingbird". He is so disgusted with the cruelty of humanity that he wishes he was a bluebird singing, and a bluebird never gets too heavy to sing. Furthermore is the line "we burn the cotton fields down in the valley". The "valley" represents the cruel world, and the "cotton fields" represent the nature that man has destroyed leaving us scars. Finally describing "the scars became the lessons that we gave our children after the war". War represents the greatest evil of all, the worst part about the cruel world that he is trying to hide away from. Truly a fabulous song, I think Jerry Garcia would be proud.
This is a great song. It is clearly about drugs with a nod to the Grateful dead's "Sugar Magnolia". He gets so upset with the ways of the cruel world that he wants to disappear to Magnolia Mountain (get high) and "steady his soul and ease his worry". The words "rocks, heavy, and fly" are purposefully used, as is the phrase "rattle like a hummingbird". He is so disgusted with the cruelty of humanity that he wishes he was a bluebird singing, and a bluebird never gets too heavy to sing. Furthermore is the line "we burn the cotton fields down in the valley". The "valley" represents the cruel world, and the "cotton fields" represent the nature that man has destroyed leaving us scars. Finally describing "the scars became the lessons that we gave our children after the war". War represents the greatest evil of all, the worst part about the cruel world that he is trying to hide away from. Truly a fabulous song, I think Jerry Garcia would be proud.