Jamiroquai – Space Cowboy

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Everything is good
And brown
I'm here again
With a sunshine smile upon my face
My friends
Are close at hand
And all my inhibitions
Have disappeared without a trace
I'm glad
That I found
Somebody who I can rely on.

This is the return
Of the space cowboy
Inter-planetary
Good vibe zone
At the speed of Cheeba
You and I go deeper
Maybe I'm gonna have to get high
Just to get by.

You know I've got that
I got that cheeba-cheeba kind of space cowboy vibe

Everything is good
And green
Say, I'm red again
And I don't suppose I'm coming down
I can see clearly
So high in the sky
A man with psychedelic picture frames
Of happiness to shade
His eyes
He's glad
That he found
Somebody who
He can rely on.

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Lyrics submitted by Crimson0311

Track duration: 03:37

"Space Cowboy" as written by Jason / Kay

Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing

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    General Comment:This song is about getting high on great cannabis. You can take whatever meaning you like from this song and thats fine as well.

    The music video gives clues, he points to his eyes on the 'Say, I'm red again' part, indicating red eyes.
    The disco lights in the background are shaped like the leaves of the plant. The addidas shirt.

    'A man with psychedelic picture frames
    Of happiness to shade his eyes' - it's about the sunglasses often used to hide the eyes.



    Flag z31joeon May 06, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:When you smoke a lot of WEED you feel a connexion with Nature, well at least that happened with me and many of my frinds who also smoke POt, I don't know why does that happen but I think there is a connexion between Weed and Nature, that is the reason that whole album speaks about nature, and all those feelngs we had or we realise are important in our life when smoking weed.
    Flag driveinout92on March 27, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:He also said in one part of the song: " Everything is good And GREEN" as we all know weed is green.
    Flag driveinout92on March 27, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:It seems like talk about WEED dude... "Maybe I'll have to get high Just to get by", not only that but the whole song talks about you feeling happy and with no inhibitions, and I am a marihuana smoker and belive it really takes your inhibitions out sometimes.


    Flag driveinout92on March 26, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:it's about sex ;)
    Flag sumecon June 30, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Cool chill out song. Makes me want to dance slowly, too.

    Love,
    M.W
    Flag Marcus Wulfon December 29, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:well the poster definitely refers to reefer. its a beautiful chill song!
    Flag crackerbugon December 04, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:The colors brown, green, and red? "My friends are CLOSE AT HAND, and all my inhibitions have disappeared"

    ;)
    Flag cmill216on June 21, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:I dunno about it being a song about love, the deeper meaning. This is Jay's chill out song. After singing his heart out about how the world is in ruins, and how we are destroying Mother Earth, he is taking the time out to tell us how he relaxed back then (maybe still now).

    As an ex-pot smoker, he is refering to the weed as his friend. "You and I" ... he needs nothing else, nor noone else. All he needs is his weed.
    "Everything is good, and Brown" The classic and easiest way to smoke weed, as resin crumbled into a joint. He has his friends close at hand, but he knows that he can rely on the weed to not disapoint. The chorus is about the high.
    "Everything is good and green" - This is definately Skunk. He is most certainly bugging out from the potency of the skunk, and as anyone who has butchered the green will confirm, when your high on skunk you feel like it will last forever and you will want it to.

    I think it is just a baltent insight into how Jay chills out from all the shit in life, and describes clearly how he feels while bugged out.

    Want a love song? Refer to Mr Moon. The greatest love song I have heard!
    Flag ConcreteMonkeyon March 08, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Although at first sight this song seems about smoking out, I think it means more than that. It's about how love gets you high, much like "Cheeba". Jay doesn't say "I smoked some Cheeba and I feel awesome!" etc., instead he says "At the speed of Cheeba, you and I go deeper", which clearly indicates a love theme which perhaps overrides the drug theme also present in the lyrics. There are many more instances where this seems more about love than anything else. Examples include "I'm glad that I found somebody I can rely on" or "He's glad he found somebody he can rely on" and the repetitious use of the phrase "you and I" later on. It seems that love gets JK "so high in the sky" that he ends up in that "interplanetary good vibe zone", which perhaps inhabits the mysterious space cowboy or even Mr. Moon! Indeed, the emancipatory nature of love is a theme central to the entire album. Love gives "flowers for my pain" in Mr. Moon, and "sunshine in my life" in Light Years. There are so many more examples! Another piece of evidence for the love theme in the Space Cowboy is the musical development which reaches such a huge climax toward the end that it seems reminiscent of an orgasm.
    Flag jumpzeroon April 26, 2005   Link

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