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One In A Million
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1,2,1,2,3,4
(Whistle)
Guess I needed sometime to get away
I needed some piece of mind
Some piece of mind that'll stay
So I thumbed it down to Sixth and L.A.
Maybe a Greyhound could be my way
Police and Niggers, that's right
Get out of my way
Don't need to buy none of your
Gold chains today
I don't need no bracelets
Clamped in front of my back
Just need my ticket; 'til then
Won't you cut me some slack?
You're one in a million
Yeah, that's what you are
You're one in a million, babe
You're a shooting star
Maybe someday we'll see you
Before you make us cry
You know we tried to reach you
But you were much too high
Much too high, much too high,
Much too high, yes, ow!
Immigrants and faggots
They make no sense to me
They come to our country
And think they'll do as they please
Like start some mini Iran,
Or spread some fuckin' disease
They talk so many goddamn ways
It's all Greek to me
Well some say I'm lazy
And others say that's just me
Some say I'm crazy
I guess I'll always be
But it's been such a long time
Since I knew right from wrong
It's all the means to an end, I
I keep it movin' along
You're one in a million
Oo, you're a shooting star
You're one in a million, babe
You know that you are
Maybe someday we'll see you, Oo
oh, Before you make us cry
You know we tried to reach you
But you were much too high
Much too high, Oo, much too high
Yeah,
Much too high, huh, no, no, oh
Ow!
Radicals and Racists
Don't point your finger at me
I'm a small town white boy
Just tryin' to make ends meet
Don't need your religion
Don't watch that much T.V.
Just makin' my livin', baby
Well that's enough for me
You're one in a million
Yeah that's what you are
You're one in a million, babe
You're a shooting star
Maybe someday we'll see you
Before you make us cry
You know we tried to reach you
But you were much too high
Much too high, ow, much too high,
Much too high, much too high
Yeah, yeee, yeah, yeee, igh!
Ow! Much too high
(Oh, much too high, ah,
much too high, ah, much too high
much too high, ow, much too high)*
*Whispered with gradual fade out

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Brainwipe
12-19-2005

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Ok, its a song thats always going to provoke a lot of feeling, especially if you have't thought about it as a whole. There are some lines that are pretty offensive if taken on their own, but they shouldn't be...

...I'm still not exactly sure what this song is about, though some of the thoughts above make a lot of sence, my perspective so far, there are several important parts in the song which show people should have more patients and thought before criticising it:

1) he slams blacks, imagents, gays, religion, even and most importantly himself "I'm just a small town white boy, just tryin' to make ends meet" in the middle of this terraid hes even slamming himself.

2) "it's been such a long time, since I knew right from wrong"

and 3) "radicals and racists, don't point your finger at me"

for me, right now this song shows a hate of being suck in the wrong side of la, trying to make it... a hate of the situation there where everybody is split over lables, all the comunities devided into groups at each others throats...

shake82, super unknown and jetziger make some good and interesting points... so does nothingwrongwithme, but I think he was way off with the "your one in a million" being self praise, thinking hes above it, but this is the bit im least sure of...

You're one in a million
Yeah, that's what you are
You're one in a million, babe
You're a shooting star
Maybe someday we'll see you
Before you make us cry
You know we tried to reach you
But you were much too high
Much too high, much too high,
Much too high, yeh, ow!

this can be taken so many ways, though the most obvious seems a drug reference... the much too high being obvious here, but "your a shooting star, maybe someday we'll see you, before you make us cry"... I have to wonder

could be a third party view of the subject of the song, hes down, hating the world and getting fucked up on drugs to get by and make it all seem better, you got to hope he pulls out of it before he od's?!?

equally, it could be a point of view of the subject of the song, he's worried to hell about someone whos been forced down in that situation, struggling to get by, can't get them off what their on, think their going to die can't cope and just want to get the hell out of there, believe me, I know, when the one you love the most (your own one in a million) is that close to the edge and no matter what you can't help them, thats really enough to make you hate the world and everything in it.

3rd and final, if this is about him trying to make it, then maybe that one in a million isn't about drugs is someone he idalises, or just where he wants to be, he wants to make it, but he can't its to high, too far hes never going to get there and hes fed up?!?!?

--ok--
Either way I think this is a great song, and I don't take it as racist, xenophoia, I think its a brilliant peice of work, and a great tune too! but if someone wants to offer perspective on my thoughts above, it would be really welcome...

Cheers
:o)