Sublime – Mary

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  General Comment:Damn, this song is hard to interpret, everybody's theories all have certain points that would deem them valid, but you gotta take a look at the theories whom can apply to more of the song, cause all lines have to mean something, there not just put there for no reason, i mean they may be filler, but all the lines even filler ones were written to the same point, so lets take a look at this;
  
  Baby one breath away
  I'll find the words to say
  I'll sit and light the bong
  I'll hold my hit in real long
  
  Baby one breath away, could mean that his baby is one breath away thus further relating to our beloved marijuanna, or does he mean, his baby is one breath away breath as in words? Ah, hell find the words to say, so maybe he is talking about speaking? Then he goes into talking about pot. The way he mentions pot in this first four lines sounds like hes so sad about it, not just the way the actual song sounds but the way he words it; as in yeah you know im going to sit and light the bong, and of course inevitably the hit will be held in real long. But fuck, what do i know?
  
  I don't know if I can
  Go up inside of you tonight
  Oh Mary baby please don't fuss and fight
  
  Obviously, this looks like its talking about sex. But it kinda looks like Mary's being asked with sympathjy please not to fuss and fight with him about his mentioned inability to "go up inside" of her.
  
  You've heard the line before
  Mary baby please don't think that I'm a whore
  If you come home to me turn off the lights and lock up the doors, and start getting busy
  
  What line has she heard before? Apparently one that he feels the need to try to clear up his non-whoreness about. But while asking not to think hes a whore, he then asks her when she gets home to setttle the house down and then to come in and laid him.
  
  I don't know if I can
  Go so far up inside you tonight
  Oh Mary baby I could do it right
  
  But its confusing as FUCK! cause after asking to get busy hes saying that he doesnt know if he can, which makes it appear as if the inability isn't some kind of moral choice inabuility, but as in an actual inability, but once concluding that he then says how he could do it right, which starts the same track of mind all over again
  
  When we got to the pad
  Mary baby started calling me her dad
  Yes, she gave me head
  We could not find a damn bed
  Fifteen years old plus one
  Hotter than a microwave oven
  Oh Mary baby, your daddy is coming home
  
  Now, back to the home thing, which when previously mentioned included her "getting busy" as in fucking him
  but now instead of saying that hes saying she started calling him her dad, which i have heard some people do, some couples have the female refering to the male as some kind of dominant thing as in "dad", its not neccessarily an incest thing
  and then she started calling him dad seems like a way of saying she started sexually, either she got all turned on and shit, or she was asking him for sex, or soemthing as in her trying to instigate sexuality between the two, it further goes on to say the both could not find a bed, so they were both doing something in need of a bed...sex,
  he never says who the age is referring too
  but he also never says what he is calling hot, im sure he could be refering to himself with the age, but it seems teh age and hot reference are at the same person since they are both simultaneous and not aimed at anyone, i am sure he wouldnt call himself hot, so the age and hotness must belong to the girl
  
  and he ends with daddys coming home
  so i suppose after the girl tried instigating sex with calling bradley her dad, he eventuially went with it
  
  
  this is very rambly, and innacurate, and i just went through everything and tried to explain it how i interpretted it at the moment, who knows
  ill probably delete this after realizing how stupid it is

  Flag taytayismon June 07, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:dude no, this song is about smoking weed. mary is weed ..get like mary jane (which is a slang for weed for those who dont know).
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  --"I don't know if I can go up inside of you tonight" meens he doesnt know if can smoke tonight.
  --"Shes hotter than a microwave oven" meens It's burning hot.
  --"Yes, she gave me head" meens he's tokin on the roach.
  this whole song is about how much he loves weed.

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  General Comment:okay how do you yall know that he's talkin about a young girl? maybe he was 15 at the time too, people are aloud to write about the past, it's a possibility, don't jump the gun and say hes bangin an underage. you guys are all sayin the same thing, but i liked joshuasmiths idea, it may be wrong, the song may mean what it says, but i like his idea it would be awesome if hes right.

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  General Comment:It seems like it's more about a guy who's too stoned to get it up...

  Flag nyquildreamson January 18, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:I'm gonna go against the grain and suggest that this song is an extended metaphor on getting high/sex and women/marijuana. I like to believe it is anyway. Obviously this is my own (stoned) interpretation but the first verse, and "fifteen years old plus one" give me some support, I think. The evidence in the first verse is obvious. As for the "15yrs old.." bit, I always took it to refer to the age at which Brad first smoked/met mary ("plus one"="plus mary"). The "I don't know if I can..." line always seemed to me to refer to an uncertainty as to whether mary would cut it for him this time or if he'd end up reaching for the skag. Of course, some other lines are a bit harder to explain by this theory. Does anyone know for sure when this was written?

  Flag joshuasmithon November 03, 2008   Link

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    Im with what you think the (stoned) interpretation seems what the way i see it too

    Flag Daughter.of.Darknesson May 07, 2009  
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  General Comment:This is a damn good song, not quite sure why but it kind of makes me sad any way its about him liking underaged wemon even though he knows it's not right, and on that note what man can't say that 16 and 17 year old girls are attractive I mean Im 17 so it's normal but I'm not sure what I'd do at 20 when a 17 year old girl with a pert rack and a round bottom tried to sit in my lap...try to say no? Well it didn't work for Brad so it probably won't work for me...then again alot of things didn't work out for brad
  RIP Brad Nowell you were a great man....and much more loved than you thought

  Flag TheOriginalOpiateon August 22, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:I think she's supposed to be a virgin... that's why Brad called her Mary...

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  General Comment:Just so yallknow Brad Wasnt much of a fan of meaningless sex maybe blowjobs he was cool with cause he sang bout htem so much but he really didnt like doing a chick and not beign in love wiht her

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  General Comment:i dont know, it don't really sound like a young kid wrote this song. it sounds more like brad is a pedo although he still rocks i mean like why else couldnt he go way up inside her tonite. mayb cuz its ilegal. just sounds like he older and the girl is younger. i mean come on what 15 year old dude wouldnt wanna get laid if they had the chance

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  General Comment:i sing it at bars and people love the stuff. i think it's just a shock to hear this song being sung by a girl... either way, great song.

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