Blue October – Drop

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I touch the tongue to see a devil's face in front of me.
A sad man in front of me.
You blow your nose then cry and the clown demands a sad goodbye.
A sad man, a sad goodbye.
Black below the tree, white horses dead in front of me.
A sad man in front of me.
A scar below the cheek, where there's a sweaty man with a bloody sink.
A sad man, a bloody sink. So,

(Chorus)

It's just a trip not a way to ease your pain.
(This is not a way to ease your pain)
Self help. Tell another shrink the same damn thing.
(Listen for the way to ease your pain)
Stay cool, everything is gonna be okay.
(I think it's rather time to ease your pain)
Until you decide to drop again. Until you decide to drop again.

A blue jean girl to be, and still the sweaty man is behind the trees.
Behind the trees.
The flip side of sanity is the game. I'm 14 million miles away, I'm 14 million miles away
away from sane.
The dark man in the restroom window pane who's words just pour out human pain.

(Chorus)

It's just a trip not a way to ease your pain.
(This is not a way to ease your pain)
Self help. Tell another shrink the same damn thing.
(Listen for the way to ease your pain)
Stay cool, everything is gonna be okay.
(I think it's rather time to ease your pain)
Until you decide to drop again. Until you decide to drop.

drop.
now I'm so high, so high, so high.
So I, so I decide.

'Till you decide to drop again.
A carnival ride through trip again.
Until you decide, until you decide, until you decide.
'Till you decide to drop again.
A carnival ride through trip again.
Until you decide, until you decide, until you decide.

It's just a trip, not a way to ease your pain.
Self help. tell another shrink the same damn thing.
Until you decide to drop again.

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    General Comment:Justin is trying to cope with an addiction not an acid trip... A sweaty man with a bloody sink is the desperation a junkie has to hit the vein because he needs the fix.. "It's just a trip, not a way to ease your pain.
    Self help. tell another shrink the same damn thing.
    Until you decide to drop again."
    These are the words of someoine who has been thru rehab... He wants to quit using but the urge is too strong and the pain of doing without is too real
    Flag dna09on October 21, 2011   Link
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    Song Meaning:*DISCLAIMER* I have just obtained a copy of Justin Furstenfeld's book Crazy Making. It's not very detailed, but it contains all the lyrics to all current (The Answers - Approaching Normal) Blue October songs, and his inspiration behind them. As I said, it's not very detailed, but it's his words on every Blue October song that is in the book. I know everyone interprets a song differently from everyone else, but having the original intent behind the song will be helpful to people who don't fully understand a song. Also, any grammatical errors are not made by me, I'm putting down Justin's words exactly how he writes them. So yea... enjoy :)
    *NOTE* I'm not entirely sure who played chess, the handwriting is tough to distinguish. It's definitely either: God, Gcd, or Ged. I really can't tell. I'm going with God since it kind of makes sense to me

    Drop: "Took a 'trip' with my boys Ryan and Est: Camping on the exact spot where God played chess. I believe he moved me around that night."
    Flag marquptonon June 04, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:guys this song isnt about any of that its a song about a bad hit of acid he did when he was 15
    Flag gunmetalblue5591on April 12, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:actually he was suffering from depression at age 14.
    on the album Argue With A Tree he talks about how he wrote black orchid, (a song about suicide), as a confession to his mom when he was 14.

    so wallaa
    Flag tmcdonald729on February 02, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Yeah its about trippin on acid. I went to the July 5th concert this past summer and he explained that it was writtin to a friend he used to drop with.
    Flag chop83on October 30, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:well on the cd sleeve it says "this is just a drip not a way to ease your pain" but I hear trip...I think it's about how when you're in the hospital after a traumatizing event they give you a morphine drip. Or it could be about taking a trip using illegal drugs

    maybe it's about him using drugs to ecape reality and the trip thatthey take him on and the journey Justin has to take to give them up and become a better person and heal on his own.....


    does anyone know what the "blue jeaned girl" is talking about?
    Flag Jade_Viperon April 09, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Meant to add to the above post:

    ...I wonder if he started suffering from depression around the age of 14 and/or if something significant happened at that age.
    Flag ZenWolfon January 19, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Agreed, this is a song about self-medicating (with LSD) to escape and avoid extreme emotional pain (depression).

    Does anyone know why Justin repeatedly uses the number 14 in many of his lyrics? He uses that number so frequently it has to have some significance...
    Flag ZenWolfon January 19, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Justin Furstenfeld said this is about a bad acid trip he had when he was around 15 years old.
    Flag darkshadows17on August 01, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I think it's a little of both. He's been trying to go clean, but, withdrawal or whatever led him to start, is causing him pain, mental or physical. So he's going back to the acid--"I think it's rather time that you ease your pain". But he knows, ultimately, that it won't help. It isn't a way to ease his pain. But because it's the only thing he knows how to help himself, he self medicates with acid. And it's what he'll keep doing until he decides he has to fix himself.

    On a personal side note, having chronic back pain, I love this song. I self medicate as well (though not with acid) and I listen to this song sometimes to remind myself that self medicating isn't going to help anything in the end. It's a very beautiful song, for an acid trip!
    Flag adrian_lavanon June 19, 2007   Link

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