Bush – Greedy Fly

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  General Comment:Do you feel the way you hate, do you hate the way you feel
  Always closest to the flame, ever closer to the blade
  ....
  amazing.

  Flag mhmmalrighton October 29, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:I think this song is about the way we need to embrace life, because any other way isn't worth living.
  
  It's about giving in to different traps as a greedy simple organism in different ways while trying to find something that we need help to find.
  
  "We are servants to our formulaic ways"
  
  We choose to put ourselves in situations that control us, instead of deciding to be in control. We are in limbo, unsure of ourselves and our choices. We either choose to balance ourselves, or we choose to be balanced by forces of nature.
  
  "Ever know that what you fear is what you find"
  
  We eventually create what we envision as ourselves and for ourselves.

  Flag AmberBon August 04, 2009   Link

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    I found your view very insightfull. I think he feels trapped in a life,mind,paradyme, "Here" ect. Knowing the success he has (BUSH) "I've got my own time. Got it all today." He realizes it's fleeting. It's amazing to me how much he says with the few words he uses. My interpitation of his lyrics changes frequently so I as have yet not tired of hearing his songs. I just arrived to the 90's about 3 months ago. I dig it!

    Flag Yawnon December 13, 2010  
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  General Comment:I find this song to actually be about suicide. The lyrics really seem to reflect a lot of imagery of it and of a person depressed and at the edge of their limits but can't make up their mind on whether he should go through with it or not.
  
  "Do you feel the way you hate, do you hate the way you feel
  Always closest to the flame, ever closer to the blade"
  
  A lot of people who contemplate suicide thinks about it why? A lot of times the hate for something, the hate for how they're feeling or something about them. A common imagery of suicide is the razor blade. According to beliefs, what happens when one commits suicide? You go to hell. "Always closer to the flame"
  
  "I am poison crazy lush, built these hands to lift me up
  We are servants to our formulaic ways"
  Due to being so down, there's that need to change things around you, but it just doesn't help. Everyone is still the same, everything you deal with is still the same and it's frustrating. You still feel like you're poison and just crap.
  
  "Limbo this and limbo that, you were this and you were that
  Ever know that what you fear is what you find
  This Indian summer I signed my life away
  There's a greedy fly in here and I fly away"
  I see this part basically as in that mode of thinking where you don't think anymore. You're just numb. You've thought about what you've hated and may not enjoy seeing people in a certain mode, but you've reached that breaking point. You're greedy because you don't have what you want as you just watch everyone and everything around you. You take the final plunge, sign your life away by finally committing the act and now you're gone.

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  General Comment:Like the music video, this song makes no literal sense, but yet what Bush songs do make sense?
  
  Another amazing song written by an amazing musician of an amazing band.
  
  It's all about what the song means to you..

  Flag brian257043on November 12, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:when i was in elementary school
  wow, this song brings back sooo(OOOO) much

  Flag isamguy0on July 16, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:Can someone explain the video to me? I've seen it a lot os times but i still don't get it.
  
  There's a murder, cops, a guy coming out of an egg...

  Flag rkcon August 10, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:Can someone explain the video to me? I've seen it a lot os times but i still don't get it.
  
  There's a murder, cops, a guy coming out of an egg...

  Flag rkcon August 10, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:I think everybody needs to see this music video at least 9 times before they die
  
  warning - be prepared for the possibility of not being able to sleep
  
  ever
  
  again
  
  and have a nice large bucket/tub positioned a nice 2 feet or so directly beneath your mouth
  
  I thought it was fuckin cool, but it'd probably sick most people out
  
  Gavin's got a cool sense of evil.....
  
  He'd be the baddest badass of grunge if it wasn't for Cantrell and the whole G Stef thing......wtf was he thinking......

  Flag robinjay490on May 25, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:this song reminds me of being in the military and when i joined with the make up your mind need some help as the recruiter this indian sumer i signed my life away fuck i want out

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  General Comment:o yea? because I am poison crazy lush means sooo much to you. Those sure are some powerful lyrics. I have a fun idea: shut up.

  Flag ron_burgundyon February 11, 2007   Link

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