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Oh sunshine,
The loving beauty,
Pass me by,
Should I waste my time
In your valley,
Beneath your sky?
Aah
Aah
Aah
Aah, I am home
You move your own mountain,
The trees have grown,
The trees have grown,
Now it's over,
Now it's over and I'm coming home
Aah
Aah
Aah
Aah, I am home
The loving beauty,
Pass me by,
Should I waste my time
In your valley,
Beneath your sky?
Aah
Aah
Aah
Aah, I am home
You move your own mountain,
The trees have grown,
The trees have grown,
Now it's over,
Now it's over and I'm coming home
Aah
Aah
Aah
Aah, I am home
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I believe this song is about a relationship with some girl (Sunshine). The relationship is purely physical, there is little love or connection other than a physical one (her love and beauty is passing him by). He feels he is wasting his time in this relationship, spending most of it in her valley (vagina) and beneath her skies (could be a number of things).
In the second part, the self-reflection is over. The first part was maybe him thinking while he was waiting for Sunshine, she now enters the room and he turns to a description of the act. She is on top, possibly riding him in the reverse cowgirl position. He looks at her butt (mountains; this fits with the "valley" being somewhere in between them), as she moves them in ways I do not feel the need to explain. All this is causing his penis to get harder (like a growing tree). Finally he reaches a climax (it's over).
He describes this as "coming home". As he comes, he releases his whitewater spring in her valley. This is how it's supposed to be, rivers flow in valleys. It is home. He has come to terms with the facts as they stand, and now actually appreciates the beauty of such a natural thing.
Oh sunshine, your love and beauty pass me by
i was down there and stumbled upon all the "landmarks" so to say, last febuary. i found a street named thumb, the welcome to sky valley sign and a place called whitewater.. surely that cant be a coincidence as they are from that area.
Its about life
You move your own mountain,
(he made something great in his life)
The trees have grown,
The trees have grown,
(and growned trees are achievement of his life-work)
Now it's over,
Now it's over and I'm coming home
(it's over, he's dying and he's coming "home")
It is really beautiful song, I've got chills from it :)
The first verse seems to be about how small and insignificant one is in the beauty of the world. the sunshine passes by, almost as if his love of it is unrequited. He is so completely mindblown by the natural world, his very existence seems a waste of time by comparison, and yet at the same time he feels at home amongst it.
The second verse at a guess is about how people try to control or manipulate nature: "you move your own mountain", perhaps a reference to quarrying or mining or some other human activity...
BUT the trees have grown, suggests that nature always claims it back, and now that nature rules again he feels that its a return to "home" for him.
this song overwhelms me every time I hear it (which is a lot cuz Kyuss completely possesses me most of the day) which is why I think they put Lick Doo at the end, a lighthearted sort of comic relief to the magnitude of Whitewater.