When I look 'round, I only see outta one eye
As the smoke surrounds my head, the sauna
I hear the voices, but I can't make out their words
Saying things, saying things that

I got something sticking in my eye
Got something sticking in my eye
Got something sticking in my eye
I feel unusual from thinking
About the underground decay, God help me

Kill beneath the camera, watch the world begin to cry
It's not from pity, it comes from
What's been sticking in my eye
Got something sticking in my eye



Lyrics submitted by AtomicGarden

Track duration: 02:23

"Stickin In My Eye" as written by Mike Burkett

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    My Interpretation:I think this song is about money. The entire feel of the song is being insulated in some fashion, senses deprived and experiencing only part of the full world. The sauna, fog, hearing voices but not being able to make out the words, it all reeks of someone on the better half of things with a foundation of wealth to protect them from the ills of the earth.

    'Kill beneath the camera, watch the world begin to cry' is a scene all in itself, to be considered as "one" and not two separate things, as it's referenced again "_IT_ comes from what's been stickin in my eye", "_IT_" being the aforementioned scene -- killing on TV and the misery that follows. "The killing" is caused by the imbalance of wealth in the world, insulating some and (quietly) starving others.
    Flag fischbson May 15, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:i thought this song was about heorine, hence the sticking. and the 'seeing things' and shit like that
    Flag ImTellingTimon July 18, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:knowing fat mike it probly means nothing. he also sings about how he lives in a cake
    Flag pinkfadeon February 16, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:Matthew 7:3-5
    "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

    Flag williamtafton February 14, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:i think things stand like that
    "When I look 'round, I only see outta one eye" ; "I hear the voices, but I can't make out their words" - those lines are about how the world got so misunderstood and fucked up that you get confused
    the smoke and the asuna stand for the preasure
    "It's not from pity, it comes from What's been sticking in my eye" - you get upset but you try to be blind and strong so you say you got somethin' stickin in your eye
    idk a may be wrong
    Flag papilon September 07, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:lol ur a fucking idiot

    fat mike is a drug user

    he always has been

    in backstage passport he says i saw death sentence and drugs in the same sentence and thats what you dont want to see especially for a drug user

    and he goes and takes drugs in the video

    he says its not drug abuse because its not abusing a substance its just using it
    Flag DeanBetamberineon August 27, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:TMF128, are you kidding? At least a solid 1/4 of NOFX's songs are HEAVY with drug references, especially in the past few years. It really doesn't matter one way or the other, it has nothing to do with the music. But based on lyrics and attitudes, I would most definitely say Mike does drugs and is not against their use. That lyric refers to the difference between recreation and addiction/habituation, not legal vs illegal.
    Flag Zardokkon August 09, 2009   Link
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    My Opinion:Anybody who said this is about drugs is wrong. Fat Mike says he has no interest in drugs and is against using them illegally (there is a line in You're Wrong where he says "You're wrong about drug use when it's not abuse.)

    I agree with Telot, that seems like a very minor meaning to the song, but it seems fitting. I also agree with TheYellowZebra and lukefun, those also seem like good meanings. The only way to find out is by asking Fat Mike, which I don't think most of us can do.
    Flag TMF128on March 18, 2009   Link
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    My Opinion:Anybody who said this is about drugs is wrong. Fat Mike says he has no interest in drugs and is against using them illegally (there is a line in You're Wrong where he says "You're wrong about drug use when it's not abuse.)

    I agree with Telot, that seems like a very minor meaning to the song, but it seems fitting. I also agree with TheYellowZebra and lukefun, those also seem like good meanings. The only way to find out is by asking Fat Mike, which I don't think most of us can do.
    Flag TMF128on March 18, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I've been listening to Nofx for what feels like 20 years (actually only 9). They've been my favorite band since I heard them at the ripe age of 15. I must've heard this song ten thousand times, always thinking he was just talking about having some shit in his eye and being pissed off about it...you guys have to realize that not every nofx song has a deeper side to it - not all of their songs are The Decline. Most will have a play on words or some kind of fun pun, but not all of them are about the state of society, or politics, or religion. With that said, I finally got this song the last time I saw them live - my brother had gotten hit in the eye with a mohawk during Lori Meyers and was down for the count near the bar...then all of a sudden they go right into Sticking in my Eye...and it clicks. The first verse is about being in a mosh pit at a punk show, getting jabbed in the with a mohawk...


    "As the smoke surrounds my head"
    -Unlike now, punk shows USED to be freakin awesome and be in clubs where you could smoke...though nofx has more than one song about how they hate cig smoke - it was a mainstay of a punk show.

    ..."the sauna!"
    -A mosh pit is like a sauna with all the jumping/moshing/pushing/skanking/fighting, it turns into a massive sweat lodge - just try and leave a mosh pit without at least 50 peoples sweat.


    "I hear the voices, but I can't make out their words"
    -Just like at a punk show - no matter how loud it is, you can't really hear the words...you just have to know them

    So ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I maintain that my client, verse number one of Sticking in my Eye is really all about being at a punk show and getting jabbed in the eye with a mohawk.
    Flag Teloton February 03, 2009   Link

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