Stipe sometimes introduced this in concert by singing the US Army jingle, "Be all that you can be, in the Army. Orange Crush was an orange flavored soft drink but this song IS about Agent Orange, a chemical used by the US to defoliate the Vietnamese jungle during the Vietnam War. US military personnel exposed to it developed cancer years later and some of their children had birth defects. Stipe's father served in Vietnam in the helicopter corps.
hi there,this song meaning is about myself and my brother we met the lead singer and it was at a pool bar at jane and bloor and I told him about an accident we were in myself and brother and I told him about it and said he would write a song about it .and here is the story we were in my van and was trying to turn left to go north on markham road when a mac dump truck came through a red light and just before the accident we stopped for an orange crush at a gas...
hi there,this song meaning is about myself and my brother we met the lead singer and it was at a pool bar at jane and bloor and I told him about an accident we were in myself and brother and I told him about it and said he would write a song about it .and here is the story we were in my van and was trying to turn left to go north on markham road when a mac dump truck came through a red light and just before the accident we stopped for an orange crush at a gas station and I got my orange crush and a few mins later we turned left going north on a flashing green light and the truck came through the light and I steered away just after my brother said mac truck and we were t boned and impact was very bad but I was heading ofcourse to hit bus shelter and manged to steer away from 10 people losing there lives and then hit the steel lamp pole and again almost got killed all in 5 seconds and my spine was injuried and I still had my orange crush. SIGNED DENNIS Day
Stipe sometimes introduced this in concert by singing the US Army jingle, "Be all that you can be, in the Army. Orange Crush was an orange flavored soft drink but this song IS about Agent Orange, a chemical used by the US to defoliate the Vietnamese jungle during the Vietnam War. US military personnel exposed to it developed cancer years later and some of their children had birth defects. Stipe's father served in Vietnam in the helicopter corps.
hi there,this song meaning is about myself and my brother we met the lead singer and it was at a pool bar at jane and bloor and I told him about an accident we were in myself and brother and I told him about it and said he would write a song about it .and here is the story we were in my van and was trying to turn left to go north on markham road when a mac dump truck came through a red light and just before the accident we stopped for an orange crush at a gas...
hi there,this song meaning is about myself and my brother we met the lead singer and it was at a pool bar at jane and bloor and I told him about an accident we were in myself and brother and I told him about it and said he would write a song about it .and here is the story we were in my van and was trying to turn left to go north on markham road when a mac dump truck came through a red light and just before the accident we stopped for an orange crush at a gas station and I got my orange crush and a few mins later we turned left going north on a flashing green light and the truck came through the light and I steered away just after my brother said mac truck and we were t boned and impact was very bad but I was heading ofcourse to hit bus shelter and manged to steer away from 10 people losing there lives and then hit the steel lamp pole and again almost got killed all in 5 seconds and my spine was injuried and I still had my orange crush. SIGNED DENNIS Day