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I've got myself
In a masochistic hold
Why don't you let go
Shake it off
Just to redirect my flow
Come on let's go
Sit up straight
I'm on a double date
I've got to find my way
Into the light, heavy, middle weight
We don't stop rock around the clock
Motor mouthing off
In front of every other road block
Come again and tell me
What you're going thru
Like a girl who only knew
Her child was due
Memories of everything
Of lemon trees on mercury
Come to me with remedies
From five or six of seven seas
You always took me with a smile
When I was down
Memories of everything
That blew thru
Looking up into
A reverse vertigo
What an undertow
Give it up
Another stubborn scorpio
Come on, let's go
Sit up straight
I'm on a double date
I've got to find my way
Into the light, heavy, middle weight
We don't stop rock around the clock
Motor mouthing off
In front of every other road block
Come again and tell me
What you're going thru
Like a girl who only knew
Her child was due
To the moon she gave
Another good review
Turn around and look at me
It's really really you
In a masochistic hold
Why don't you let go
Shake it off
Just to redirect my flow
Come on let's go
Sit up straight
I'm on a double date
I've got to find my way
Into the light, heavy, middle weight
We don't stop rock around the clock
Motor mouthing off
In front of every other road block
Come again and tell me
What you're going thru
Like a girl who only knew
Her child was due
Memories of everything
Of lemon trees on mercury
Come to me with remedies
From five or six of seven seas
You always took me with a smile
When I was down
Memories of everything
That blew thru
Looking up into
A reverse vertigo
What an undertow
Give it up
Another stubborn scorpio
Come on, let's go
Sit up straight
I'm on a double date
I've got to find my way
Into the light, heavy, middle weight
We don't stop rock around the clock
Motor mouthing off
In front of every other road block
Come again and tell me
What you're going thru
Like a girl who only knew
Her child was due
To the moon she gave
Another good review
Turn around and look at me
It's really really you
Lyrics submitted by on_a_plain_11
Track duration: 03:28
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Of lemon trees on mercury
Come to me with remedies
From five or six of seven seas
You always took me with a smile
When I was down"
I don't think these talks about drugs, i think he's just reminiscing, thinking about someone who made him feel well. "memories of everything" (introduces what he remembers)
"of lemon trees on mercury" Lemon Trees may refer to bad times or to everything that makes you feel bad. "On Mercury" (planet) means that it's far away, so: it means that anything thay could make him feel down was away.
"come to me with remedies/from five or six of seven seas" the person he's talking about always had something useful to say that coul make him feel better
"you always took me with a smile/ when i was down" i don't think it needs an explanation...
about "give it up, another stubborn scorpio": he may be refering to himself. If he is being masochistic, he may say bad things about himself
"Memories of everything
Of lemon trees on mercury
Come to me with remedies
From five or six of seven seas
You always took me with a smile
When I was down"
make me think of friends and the general reminiscence of "good times". For them it may mean drugs but i think it can be interpreted generally.
the line "i got myself in a masochistic hold" refers to his drug abouse and hos it actually hurts himself but that he enjoys too much to quit. he tells us about his attempt to "shake it off" and to "redirect" this masochistic energy into his music.
the next line could refer to his dads dubbel dating with him, if soo you could combine it with "i gotta find my way into the light heavy middle weight" nad get something refering to his uncertainty if he is his dads friend or son.
If you read Anthony's autobiography, "Scar Tissue," he discusses the use of lemons, but not the song directly. This is what I put together:
Anthony writes about Persian heroin and how it is the best type of heroin you can get. Apparently, it is oil-based, which means it is hard to inject because the oil produces some problem. So what you do is take lemon juice to cut the oil, heat it up, then shoot up. I was thinking about the lyrics one day and was exhausting all the possible explanations, when I thought that Mercury could be a street. I looked it up on an LA street map and it turned out to exist. So like torrance21 said, he used the lemons when he shot heroin, but On Mercury literally means the memories he has of shooting up on Mercury Street. Once again, what torrance21 said, just a little more in-depth.