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I've been waiting
Waiting under things
That rise in the morning
I've been holding
Holding back so long
You can own it
Take it off my hands
Do me a favor
Nothin' wasted
Just fingerfucked and
Busted up all at once
I'm so lost out on the highway
With no direction left to go
Everyday sit up and wonder
Where it was I started from
The more you've found
The less you've been around
Waiting under things
That rise in the morning
I've been holding
Holding back so long
You can own it
Take it off my hands
Do me a favor
Nothin' wasted
Just fingerfucked and
Busted up all at once
I'm so lost out on the highway
With no direction left to go
Everyday sit up and wonder
Where it was I started from
The more you've found
The less you've been around
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Then of course after that he was thinking a lot about things as we all do. Getting lost on the highway with nowhere to go just thinking about what went wrong, etc.
The last part really stands out to me, because the friend who liked my girlfriend is still a virgin and almost 18, and he always has something quasi-intellectual to say and he's always got to be the know-it-all. Hence, the more you find, or the more you've found, the less you've been around. The more you have to prove shit and be that one that's found all the knowledge and is the smartest and the bragart, the more insecure you are, the less you've been around.
This song means a lot to me and every line means something. I always wanted to just fuck that girl one last time and say see ya. It all fits. I think it's about a girl. That's just me.
Dangilman summed it up pretty well.
I rather think that the 1st verse describes laziness in general. "Waiting under things that rise in the morning"(maybe he is "imprisoned" by the day/sun by following constant routines repeating every day).
"I been holding, holding back so long"(starting to regret his prior way of life).
And with "You can own it etc....do me a favour...nothin wasted,fingerfucked" and so on. confirming it.
He realizes the every day routine by seeing his loss of focus. "I´m so lost out on the highway, with no direction left to go". "Everyday sit up and wonder where it was I started from"(due to his everyday routine).
And the final conclusion out of this one..."The more you´ve found the less you´ve been around". It is describing the fact that everytime you get your ass up to do something you planned or whatever you don´t fall back into that state of routine laziness (regular bronze dude). You can be someone who actually does something (no.1 gold winner). And with doing so you can find out what you actually do/don´t want out of life (finding things).
“I’ve been waiting under things that rise in the morning.” ‘Things that rise in the morning’ are the early birds that get the worm. Things that rise in the morning are the 1st place gold winners that Homme feels inferior to. He’s been “holding back so long,” and now that he has had this self-realization he is willing to “take [the bronze] off [his] hands,” because it is a burden to carry (“finger fucked and busted up”).
The solo after the first verse is powerful because it’s a highly technical and intricate pattern that erodes into complete chaos until it literally slides and screeches into the 2nd verse. The structure of the solo itself indicates the transition, from the highly structured 1st verse, into the 2nd verse’s chaotic, formless, existential self-analysis.
Now that Homme has realized how pathetically he has wasted his own potential, he begins analyzing exactly how and why he came to this point. “I’m so lost out on the highway, with no direction left to go, every day sit up and wonder where it was I started from.” He’s trying to find his origin and error.
Homme ends the song, “The more you’ve found the less you’ve been around.” This line is the conclusion of his self-analysis.
IN SUMMARY: The 1st verse is about Homme realizing his predicament and refusing to live with it; the solo is a transition from realization to reflection; and the 2nd verse is an attempt to find a solution, which leads to a existential conclusion: “the more you’ve found the less you’ve been around.”
That last line is highly interpretable, but I imagine it two ways: either literally that the more time you spend doing new things the less time you have to spend doing or thinking about anything else. Or you could look at it from any unique perspective of your own, because it’s a very fundamental suggestion that will apply to many things in life (such as becoming popular and not hanging out with your old friends, or picture Homme touring and not having any time for his family).
Anyway. This is just my basic interpretation, determined by title, structure, and common sense. No one but Homme will ever know exactly why he wrote it, and anyone listening to it will interpret it the way he/she likes.
The guitar solo....fucking FUCK
"I been waiting
Waiting under things that rise in the morning" - This line obviously screams sexual imagery, specifically "morning glory" (also a good song, Oasis :P). If one was to take this literally, it could be talking about the sperm, underneath the "things that rise in the moooooorning :D" - this leads me to think that "The Bronze" = a metaphor for spunk.
Then the second verse happens. Homme goes all existential. Of course, there is a parallel between getting laid and “where it was I started from.” It is as though the sexual encounter has liberated the mind of the morning-wood man (a vice versa of a certain Seinfeld episode). He can now ponder the nature of the universe—in a manner that may not have been possible before.
The last line: “The more you’ve found, the less you’ve been around” has Platonic implications. Socratic wisdom comes from the cognizance of the individual’s own ignorance—knowing that you are unwise is what makes one wise. This is the implication of the last line of the song and it keeps with the second verse’s existential questions and validates a Platonic/Socratic philosophical view of the world.
I FUCKIN LOVE THIS SONG!!!!
Ok. Now, the lyrics.
Waiting under things that rise in the morning?
Sun, day, work, breakfeast, sheets, bed..
Or maybe the begginning of something.
"The more you found the less you been around"
"I went for gold, but only got the bronze" - Nick
Like you left someone or something to find what
you wanted. And the more you find the more time
it took you. And the less time you spent where you
wanted.
PS: this song is much older than Stone age
complications. On you tube there's them playing
@ bizarre festival '98. on Stage only Josh, Niick and
Alfredo Hernadez. Not only the guitar, but bass and
drums are fuckin amazing... Never saw josh so concentrated on playing.