Sublime – Saw Red

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  General Comment:WORST SUBLIME SONG EVER!!
  
  RIP bradley. We still miss you over 15 years later.

  Flag MarkCox11on June 19, 2012   Link

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  General Comment:haha for real "a guy wanting to have sex"? hahaha that sentence is easily related to get off of the relationship and red is anger.. I agree is just and plain about a relationship, but what I don´t get is the last part "Girls don´t go crazy when the men use you" I love the song but it bugs me a little.. I don´t get it, what it has to do with the whole song.

  Flag AnnPCDon December 20, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:wow every single one of you are thinking entirely too far into this. obviously its about not the best relationship but ITS ABOUT A GUY WANTING TO HAVE SEX WITH HIS GIRL WHILE SHES ON HER PERIOD.
  
  baby if you wanna get off
  it makes no sense at all
  i saw red
  
  its gross but the actual meaning

  Flag melisnicoleon October 01, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:i think this song is about heroin addiction. i made an account just to comment this, lol.
  
  Every day I love her a little bit more
  A little bit more, a little bit more
  And she loves me the same
  ------he's using a girl to describe heroin. he gets more and more addicted, but of course, heroin remains the same.
  
  Baby if ya wanna get low
  Baby if ya wanna get high
  It makes no sense at all
  ------when you get high on heroin, people call it getting low.
  
  I saw red
  I saw red
  I saw red
  One more secret lover that I shot dead
  -------i read something on here that said shooting up h and seeing red means you fucked it up, and thats what bradley's singing about. i've heard of some heroin turning brownish/red like blood when it's cooked down.
  
  
  Every day I wake up, just a little bit more
  feelin' like a dog in the yard
  Because it's just how we are
  And every day I wonder if it's over
  When I wake up I realize that it not
  And I break down the wall
  --------a day not doing heroin "wake up just a little bit more" can make you sick "feeling like a dog in the yard cause thats just how we are"
  
  You say it's black but I can't believe you
  And if I say it's white say I'm just trying to decieve you
  And baby, I'm aware of the high and the low
  And I'll be waiting in the middle
  But I just lack control
  ---------heroin can be white (china) black (tar)... he's aware of the highs it'll give him either way, bc he's a heroin addict and just 'lacks control'
  
  Baby if ya wanna get low
  Baby if ya wanna get high
  It makes no sense at all
  I saw red
  I saw red
  I saw red
  One more secret lover that I shot dead
  
  Girls don't go crazy
  Girls don't go crazy
  Oh girls don't crazy when the men use you oh
  Women hold your men tight
  -------"girls" dont go crazy when the men use "you" = heroin. hold your men tight....
  
  If it makes you feel alright
  It's your own life
  -------- self explainatory

  Flag tcarpon June 17, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:This song is about a guy and a girl where one person loves the other more. So I guess one of them starts cheating. Yeah, and it is a much better song without Gwen Stefani. Her voice is kind of annoying in this song.

  Flag komickazeon October 31, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:Ok. my ex boyfriend played me the acoustic version of this song one time trying to be all cute.
  
  "Every day I love her a little bit more but she loves me the same"
  
  This line confuses me. He loves her a little bit more, but she loves him the same. Does that mean that she loves him the same as in the same every day... orrrr the same as in a little bit more every day ( the same as him)?

  Flag runnergirl8on April 22, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:this song is about the break down of trust in a relationship that comes with cheating.
  "You say it's black but I can't believe you
  And if I say it's white say I'm just trying to decieve you"
  now they think the other could be lying about anything.

  Flag Piemiceon March 01, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:Some people are just plain dumb I swear. Its not about fucking drugs you morons, have you ever been in a relationship??? To be perfectly fucking honest I have an addiction, its not herion but its synthetic herioin, pain pills. I am also in a relationship and I can diferrentaite between the actual meaning and what so many dumb people think. Its soley about a relationship, you have your ups and down, you fight back and forth and it seems like no matter what you say it angers the other. I go through it everyday, being addicted to something has a huge stress on a realtionship, it makes your emotions whacked I've fought and fought because of it. But the song is not about his addiction its about a relationship, that is it... maybe his emotions are up and down up and down because of his drug abuse and that causes the change (black and white) addicts have good days they have bad, but so does everyone else.

  Flag MissNewRealizationon October 02, 2009   Link

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    So then explain to me where the red comes from? Also, do they love each other a little more, or does one love the same? The heroin break down is perfect, every day you love it just a little more (NEED) and it loves you the same.. it may be white it may be black, but your body still craves it you don't just love your high, you fucking need it...and you need it/love it so, that you need more everyday! Not simply because you love it, you require it. Ever seen Walk the Line? They sugarcoat that shit. You can die, from overdose or from withdrawing. Idk it just makes perfect sense to me, I didn't bang it either. I can only imagine what someone who banged it would say. I tried to tie this to a relationship, but it didn't fit right. Everyone hears and sees songs differently though, this shit just sounded legit. I was like damn, that is fucking perfect. No need to be a jerk! Sheesh, I'm not stupid for agreeing with this person, Ignorant? Possible, Stupid? No. Think about when your craving those beans (vicoden) anyways... It works. So yeah.

    Flag yuhmotha13on August 10, 2012  

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    That want/need for those beans, its ten times greater with H. Its not just a little upset stomach, or some back pain, or wherever your pain derives from. This is an entire body ache, with hot/cold sweats, leg spasms, can't eat, can't sleep, never comfortable, can't sit still.. it fucking sucks. I'm glad i finally got it over with and kicked that habit

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  General Comment:it's about heroine
  jello is right
  
  seeing red is a death sentence

  Flag vivaemilyon June 03, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:the verse is all the trouble they go through.
  and the chorus is them making up.
  
  i was with a girl earlier and honestly the only way i can describe what i saw when we were consumating was 'red'.
  its a higher level of consiousness.
  

  Flag moghead1on May 08, 2009   Link

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