Flag
owennnnnnnnnnon June 13, 2006 Link
-
No Replies Log in to reply
Know something about this song or lyrics?
Add it to our wiki.
Your brain is an ever changing kaleidoscope of moods and colours
We walk in the park but it's melting in the dark
All of a sudden your mood changes and your face looks like a cake left out in the rain
Is your name MacArthur Parker? Or is it Reba?
Detour thru your mind. Supersaver to your mind
We seem to float by yesterday's child. The new you.
The land time forgot and a horse with no mane
As we go further into the gloom, we chance upon a large orange room
A key pops out of your nose. We open the door
And all of a sudden we realise that we are no more
From ear to ear. From here to now
I hear another galaxy spinning around
Who am I? Where am I going? How much will it cost?
A flash of blinding light and we're in an elegantly appointed doctor's office
It seems that Doctor Aron Butterfly wants to dip us in plaster and use us for bookends
We say to the doctore, "No. Please. No!"
And then we get the doctor's bill. What a shock!
$16,000! And all he wanted to do was dip us in plaster!
Detour thru your mind. Supersaver to your mind
Who am I?
Where have I been?
Where am I going?
DO I need any luggage?
(Drug-free altered mindscapetalk)
I need to leave my past behind
I need to leave my behind in the past
Backwards message: I buried my parakeet in the backyard. Oh no, you're playing the record backwards. Watch out, you might ruin your needle.
We walk in the park but it's melting in the dark
All of a sudden your mood changes and your face looks like a cake left out in the rain
Is your name MacArthur Parker? Or is it Reba?
Detour thru your mind. Supersaver to your mind
We seem to float by yesterday's child. The new you.
The land time forgot and a horse with no mane
As we go further into the gloom, we chance upon a large orange room
A key pops out of your nose. We open the door
And all of a sudden we realise that we are no more
From ear to ear. From here to now
I hear another galaxy spinning around
Who am I? Where am I going? How much will it cost?
A flash of blinding light and we're in an elegantly appointed doctor's office
It seems that Doctor Aron Butterfly wants to dip us in plaster and use us for bookends
We say to the doctore, "No. Please. No!"
And then we get the doctor's bill. What a shock!
$16,000! And all he wanted to do was dip us in plaster!
Detour thru your mind. Supersaver to your mind
Who am I?
Where have I been?
Where am I going?
DO I need any luggage?
(Drug-free altered mindscapetalk)
I need to leave my past behind
I need to leave my behind in the past
Backwards message: I buried my parakeet in the backyard. Oh no, you're playing the record backwards. Watch out, you might ruin your needle.
Lyrics submitted by Ice
Track duration: 05:10
Detour Thru Your Mind song meanings
Add your thoughts
2 Comments
-
0General Comment:This initially comes off as a pastiche of late-1960s pop music references--the description of the park as "melting in the dark" and the question, "Is your name MacArthur Parker?" are in reference to the 1968 string-drenched hit of the same name; the "horse with no mane" is a clear reference to the America hit, "Horse With No Name"; "Dr. Aaron Butterfly" is most likely a play on "Iron Butterfly," and even the backmasked message "I buried my parakeet in the backyard" seems like an oblique reference to the alleged backmasked message at the end of "Strawberry Fields Forever" which has John intoning, "I buried Paul." The rest of the song probably contains more late-60s pop-culture references, though I can't make them out. The last line, "I need to leave my past behind," casts the song in an interesting light; the song could be interpreted, based on this line, as a paean/elegy for the band members' (possibly just Fred's) nostalgia for the late 1960s, during which time the band members would have all been between the ages of 10-15 and thus deeply impressionable, especially as consumers of pop culture.
-
0General Comment:nice use of backmasking.Flag _Immortal_on June 06, 2005 Link
-
No Replies Log in to reply
-
Add your thoughts
Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.
Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!
