| America – Ventura Highway Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I still have a couple of real questions about this song. This is the first mention lyrically (long before Prince considered it) of "purple rain." What is purple rain?? Then, my second question is what the heck does he mean by "alligator lizards in the air"???? | |
| Stone Temple Pilots – Plush Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is apparently very person to Scott and I think he likes to throw people off the scent of its true, and relatively straightforward, meaning. The song is about a woman that has cheated on her man from the perspective of the man that she cheated on. Let's examine: "And I feel that time's a wasted go" Upon realizing that she's cheated on him, he feels the loss of all the time that he has spent with her. The lie that he has lived with her that their relationship was true. Part of him is just saying "go." (leave) "So where ya going to tomorrow? " Even though the relationship is over, he ponders where she is going to go from here. Will she go straight to the guy she cheated with? "And I see that these are lies to come " As he looks back over the relationship, he will recognize all the lies that he has been told thinking that their relationship was a farce. He will effectively discover these lies in retrospect. "Would you even care? " She will be off with her new lover and will care nothing about the damage that she has done and about the lies she told. "And I feel it And I feel it " Quite simply, he feels the pain of the loss of the relationship. It eats at him. Like any man who is in love with someone and then finds her cheating on him, the pain mixed with jealousy eats him alive. "Where ya going to tomorrow? " Again, it bugs the hell out of him trying to deal with who is going to have her now. Will she just move on like their relationship never happened? Will she just start her new relationship with the guy she cheated with? Or will she just be a slut and play the field? He wants to know because he still loves her and his jealous aches with who will have her next. "Where ya going with that mask I found? " The "mask" is this persona that she has created. She wore the mask of a faithful lover and he discovered that she was not who he thought she was. So where is she going with this mask? Will she make the new guy think she is faithful? More importantly, where is this person that he once believed in? "And I feel, and I feel When the dogs begin to smell her Will she smell alone? " Dogs are men. Men are like wolves to a piece of meat. When the dogs (other men) begin to smell her (realize that she is now available because of their broken up relationship), will she smell alone (will she really be available or will she be locked in to a new relationship with the guy she's been having an affair with)? "And I feel, so much depends on the weather So is it raining in your bedroom? " His assessment of the relationship that he thought they had depends on her. Is it raining in her bed room (does she cry for the loss of their relationship, does she feel any remorse that it is over)? "And I see, that these are the eyes of disarray" He is talking about his own eyes. They are in disarray. Perhaps from crying, perhaps just from the devastation that comes with discovering that the girl you love has been cheating on you. "Would you even care?" A somewhat rhetorical question. Does she even care that she has devastated him? "And I feel it" Lamenting the pain. "And she feels it " A clever play on words. He feels the pain, but she feels her new lover, which drives him crazy. "Where ya going to tomorrow? Where ya going with that mask I found? And I feel, and I feel When the dogs begin to smell her Will she smell alone? " The same questions just keep eating at him. "When the dogs do find her Got time, time, to wait for tomorrow " When the wolves start chasing her ass because she's available. He's got time to mend. Like many people who are devastated by a cheating lover, time is the only thing that heals. You effectively wait for tomorrow for the pain to run its course. You wait to find yourself again. The way Scott sings this song, I think it is very personal. He has lost a relationship because of his drug addiction. I would bet that this is a very very personal lament. This isn't something that you talk about to others. |
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