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I've got to buy some shoes
These ones are getting lose
My feet are shrinking in the
Sun, and it ain't fun
But it looks like rain up ahead
In forty miles.
A big rainbow took the blue sky.
I'm gonna tell my momma, I love
Her so and thank you for
Giving me these bones o gold
I'm gonna run from my home
Jump in the river and let the
Water soak the sin in my soul.
Fine time we all crossed lines
make the music that makes us
Feel fine
Rednecks on sun decks hearing a
Hillside Romeo say "Boys this is the
Good shit, so come on all and eat
A little bit."
And if I ever go back home I'm
Gonna sell
And tell my momma, I love
Her so and thank you for
Giving me these bones o gold
I'm gonna run from my home
Jump in the river and let the
Water soak the sin in my soul.
Don't even say a word, it confuses me
What he says to do, is that we don't
Have to
We don't have to.
These ones are getting lose
My feet are shrinking in the
Sun, and it ain't fun
But it looks like rain up ahead
In forty miles.
A big rainbow took the blue sky.
I'm gonna tell my momma, I love
Her so and thank you for
Giving me these bones o gold
I'm gonna run from my home
Jump in the river and let the
Water soak the sin in my soul.
Fine time we all crossed lines
make the music that makes us
Feel fine
Rednecks on sun decks hearing a
Hillside Romeo say "Boys this is the
Good shit, so come on all and eat
A little bit."
And if I ever go back home I'm
Gonna sell
And tell my momma, I love
Her so and thank you for
Giving me these bones o gold
I'm gonna run from my home
Jump in the river and let the
Water soak the sin in my soul.
Don't even say a word, it confuses me
What he says to do, is that we don't
Have to
We don't have to.
Lyrics submitted by bubbrock316
Track duration: 05:33
"I Wonder" as written by Christopher John Thorn, Thomas Rogers Stevens, Brad Smith, Shannon Hoon, Glen Graham
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing
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here are the proper lyrics:
I wonder Lyrics
Album: Blind Melon
All alone in the broadening skies
Under the every night I will lie
Scratching claw and grip the rails
Every day is my living hell
Oh God you know I've tried
I know how hard I tried
and oh I tried
Ooh
Hey I'd like to daze away to a
Place like no one has known
In a state of mind I could call mine
That only I could own
Where I could hum a tune anytime I choose
And then there is no such thing as time
Where I can feel no pain just calm and sane
What a place for one to find
Now you see I'm watching everything I do
And they're watching everything I say
So they will leave me be
Whoa, leave me be
Why am I even here?
I wonder
You leave me wondering
You leave me wondering
Won't you stop watching me
I said they're watching me, watching me, watching me
Now in my corner I got the ceiling in my eyes
Arms holding up my knees
And rocking back and forth my life
I didn't mean to feel this way
When I walked into the door, Lord
Then they ripped away my memories
And I cant remember who I was before.
Now they're watching everything I do
And they're watching everything I say
So they will leave me be
Whoa, leave me be
And I only wanted to be 16
And free
And I wonder
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my two cents on "I Wonder": Seems like a story about a teenager in a psychiatric facility. He's depressed, but feels victimized by his incarceration, and he can't figure out why he's being punished for thinking and feeling things that simply come naturally to him. He simply tries to keep to himself but the staff are always watching him, examining him for signs that he's either becoming the person that they want him to be, a person that they're molding into their idea of a "sane" person after breaking him down through behavior modification, pschotropic medications and/or electrconvulsive therapy that screws wi/ his self image and recall ability.
All he ever wanted was to be a teenager that was free to deal with his problems in his own way as he grows and develops without being locked away like a rhesus monkey in a research lab.
Under the every night I will lie
Scratching claw and grip the rails
Every day my living hell
Oh God you know I've tried..."
is a bit of forshadowing of how drugs screwed his life up.
then the next phrase: "Hey I'd like to daze away to a
Place like no one has known
In a state of mind I could call mine
That only I could own
Where I could hum a tune anytime
I choose, and then there is no such thing as time"
basicly is glorifying drugs and what is good about them and the view he had about before he started or when he just started
then in the next phrase: "Now you see I'm watching everything
I do and they're watching everything I say
Why wont they leave me be?
Why am I even here? I wonder
You leave me wondering"
is basucly saying how he doesnt like how people are telling him to stop doing drugs because its helping him discover himself
and in the next phrase: "
Now in my corner I got the ceiling in my eyes
Arms holding up my knees
And rocking back and forth's my life"
obviously a powerful feeling he is realizing that drugs are a little more extreme than he thought they were, and he is forgeting who he used to be
and in this phrase: "I didn't mean to feel this way
When I walked into the door, Lord
Then they ripped away my memories
And I cant remember who I was before."
again with he didnt mean to feel this way, drugs werent necissarily for him and he cant remember who he was(its not a good feeling)
then in the end "And I only wanted to be 16 and free." he finally remembers who he was before it all started with the drugs and everything and he wants to go back to his past but he cant
i dont know if this is exactly how shannon felt when he wrote this but that is how i feel when i listen to this song and listen to the lyrics because this song relates almost perfectly with me
i started out experimenting and wondering what this whole drug thing was, i tried it out and it was a cool thing to experience at first but then it just started screwing my life up in some points, and i had to realize for myself that the only reason people were watching me and getting mad at me for doing stuff like that is because they cared. and when i "walked in the door" and started using drugs i didnt necassarily mean to feel the way i did.
"I know how hard I tried. and oh I tried......" there is whispering that says "get me out of here. get me out of here man" right before the electric guitar kicks in? its fuckt.