Jane's Addiction – Pigs In Zen (Jane's Addiction Album)

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  My Interpretation:I feel like some people may read the lyrics and just assume it's about cops or fighting the MANNN or whatever just because it's Jane's Addiction but you have to remember that Perry is a real person who faces every day problems just like the rest of us, and interpret the lyrics however you feel you should, but I feel that the lyrics could be as simple as this:
  
  You meet a person and they feel, for some reason, that they are bigger than you and their thoughts and opinions matter more than yours and they're all wrapped up in their ego and they think they know everything (I know about pain and suffering and being cold) but they have nothing to back it up so they just play it off like they know what they're talking about. While at the same time you know what's up and you know a faker when you see one and you expose them, in your head.
  
  Also I feel like the lyrics were written half from the faker's point of view (I'm right and you're wrong) and half from Perry's point of view (If you've got some big secret why don't you sing me something?/How he feels, that's proof for him)
  
  OR... vice versa.

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  General Comment:My final words to song meanings, that was ZEN!!!!

  Flag temptation777on May 16, 2010   Link

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    I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading all the meanings here... It's the comparison of 'pig' to 'soldier'. Take another read... it's all there...
    
    Yeah, so roses are red
    I made up the rest
    If you got some big fucking secret
    Then why don't you sing me something?
    I'm in the midst of a trauma
    Leave a message- I'll call you back
    Leave it by the bed
    Some people should die
    That's just unconscious knowledge
    
    Because, because the bigger you get
    The wider you're spread
    You gotta depend on me
    Now your vision is dead
    The more your dream is dead
    Visions...
    It gets sucked from my eye
    Like an eagle's claw
    
    (Second Version)
    I know about war!
    But I just wanna fuck!
    I know about pain and suffering and being cold
    But I just wanna fuck!
    Pig is led to the slaughter
    Pig is led to the sla....
    This he said, is the price some pay
    For a simple life oh!
    How he feels
    That's proof for him

    Flag sunray73on July 22, 2011  
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  General Comment:It is about how Perry feels almost envious (!) of pigs, because they are closer to paradise than he will ever see. They don't worry about love or other peoples opinions, if they want to fuck, they just go for it, they don't care about how they look and a pig is never happier than when it is rolling about in it's own shit, basically the only thing that is genuinely free. He also talks about how we are not truelly free as long as we care about others, because we are restrained on some level due to our feelings of responsibility to other people, something a pig doesn't have, a pig doesn't care that there are others in pain around him, as long as he is ok.

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    @guiffporn....YOUR A FUCKING IDIOT!!!!!!

    Flag temptation777on May 23, 2010  

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    @Temptation777, "Your" one to talk!
    
    @quiffporn: Perry has clearly never read Charlotte's Web or seen the movie Babe :p

    Flag patthewon June 06, 2011  

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