anyone ready for an alternative interpretation? good.
Its been argued/confirmed/denied again multiple times over the years that Mellon Collie is a concept album based on a day in the life on a teenager. Personally, I'm inclined to agree, and as such songs like these take on a meaning to me probably a lot different to what was intended.
This song conjures up a very strong image of a typical day out for me in London. A group of mates drinking in a park, getting very sloshed and telling loads of weird and wonderful stories (there seems to be a romantic slant to this concept album idea; a teen's life mixed in with an almost medieval set of beliefs)
Basically, to me the song is one of these teens conjuring up a very weird and wonderful tale for their friends while drunk, a love poem to the toilet. Yup. He's drunk, he needs to go badly, and so he makes up a song about the 'ol porcelain. The line, "Without a care in this whole world," amusingly creates an image of him relieving himself in various public places (a fountain, a bush etc.)
Very wrong and abstract, but hey, this is what it means to me, and I know I'm a sick sick person ;)
anyone ready for an alternative interpretation? good.
Its been argued/confirmed/denied again multiple times over the years that Mellon Collie is a concept album based on a day in the life on a teenager. Personally, I'm inclined to agree, and as such songs like these take on a meaning to me probably a lot different to what was intended.
This song conjures up a very strong image of a typical day out for me in London. A group of mates drinking in a park, getting very sloshed and telling loads of weird and wonderful stories (there seems to be a romantic slant to this concept album idea; a teen's life mixed in with an almost medieval set of beliefs)
Basically, to me the song is one of these teens conjuring up a very weird and wonderful tale for their friends while drunk, a love poem to the toilet. Yup. He's drunk, he needs to go badly, and so he makes up a song about the 'ol porcelain. The line, "Without a care in this whole world," amusingly creates an image of him relieving himself in various public places (a fountain, a bush etc.)
Very wrong and abstract, but hey, this is what it means to me, and I know I'm a sick sick person ;)