Butthole Surfers – Whatever (I Had A Dream)

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  General Comment:I love the, yeah, rock out, whatever! part.

  Flag RettAlexison May 13, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:Also the line "He waved before a chorus girl...."
  I always thought he was saying "And Romeo, He ain't been for......" Perhaps it implied they weren't really made for one another....Which....I mean they weren't lol. Suicide and all that.....I hate to say it as well, but I always thought this was really an acid trip myself......Just how vivid things are and twisted and the way the music seems to hint at an ongoing time alteration with the melodic rhythm and tolling of the bell in the background......Sorry.....Been thinking about this one a lot for the last few months for some reason. Ok, I think I'm done now lol. Anyone else had the same thoughts?

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  General Comment:I think you might be onto something with the whole vegas interpretation. In the beginning of the song I had always thought he said "Mercy Mercy I'm made of Cards".........After listening to it again though, it sounds more like he's saying "Card" or maybe even "Cloth".....Just a thought.

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  General Comment:Shut up about the freaking movie, this is about the song.
  
  Like always, there's like the one good line in the song... which is
  "I had a dream last night, and it fit me like a glove."
  I never understood it, until one day it happened to me.
  Dreams (while sleeping) are usually random bits and pieces of your thoughts.
  However, dreams can also be what you really want at times in your life.
  So by saying the dream fit like a glove, he's saying he went to bed and had a dream about something he truly dreams of (or wants in life.)
  
  Gotta love the one good line in the song.

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  General Comment:first of all goodriddace, you made me really old as well. i know you'll probably never read this since your comment is already a few years old, but the movie came out only six years before you let your comment! you made it sound like it was 50 years old or something like some forgotten relic.
  anyway about the song: i'm not one of those people who think everything is automatically about drugs. however i think it's pretty obvious this song is about an lsd trip. or at least that's one of the things that this song's about. i could expound on this if anyone wants me to but seriously just read the lyrics.

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  General Comment:based on the scene in the play before the Capulet ball when Romeo is talking to Mercutio and the others about a dream he had which made him feel that there's fate in the stars that will lead him to his "untimely death" in an event that would take place that night, and that event was meeting Juliet.

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  General Comment:I just love the lines:
  'Juliet is up in heaven, a pocket full of pills,
  And Jesus drives to Mexico, to get - HER -PRESECRIPTION - FILLED I HAD A DREAM LAST NIGHT'
  
  i put the last part in caps cause that's how i see it - he kind of snarls out the last part and it just knocks me down, every time.

  Flag aclassiccaseon February 14, 2006   Link

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  General Comment:I agree with sara_blue_shoes! Anyways, yeah, I've got both awesome cd's. A classic soundtrack. This song is addicting. I can't listen to it once, I end up listening to it a zillion times in a row, especially when I try to interperet it. I seriously want to know how they came up with this song! Dreams are crazy and totally odd at times, but some of this makes no sense...Why are John Wayne and Bette Davis Montagues as opposed to Capulets...I don't know. I think "juliet is up in heaven, pocket full of pills" portrays how emotionally crushed she was. Her parents were going to throw her this wedding, or disown her, and so she decided to "die" and then wakes up to Romeo committing suicide. So, if she had lived I guess she probably would have been somewhat a basket case. I don't know what the right lyrics are but I think dontpanic42 is probably right. The "official lyrics" up there can't be right. But I'll assume dontpanic42's lyrics are right so: Romeo and his cousins/friends are sort of a wild bunch as opposed to the more seemingly aristocratic image of his elder Montagues. So, maybe they mean he wouldn't be good even for some Vegas girl (no offense to Vegas girls), or something. What do YOU think????

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  General Comment:this song fucking rocks... i can just keep listening

  Flag Ms Voorheeson May 16, 2005   Link

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  General Comment:R+J soundtrack is amazing, god i have been listening to it since i was like 8 or 9 or something.
  i love the sound of this song. it captures beauty in an almost gritty way

  Flag strwbrryswthrt12on June 02, 2004   Link

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