About it's meaning, I've always thought it's about a bag of marihuana... think about it... a little green bag.
The guy is singing to a green bag to help him cope with his loneliness, in the search, looking back on a track, being jumpy (as if being followed, doing something illegal). Add the hippie era context and it makes perfect sense.
It's a great song, specially for its now unseparable relation to Reservoir Dogs, such a great yet simple movie.
But, on a couple of side notes, I have to add that here, in my country (Chile) this song was used for an advertising campaign for a realy mediocre TV soap opera, copying the whole Reservoir Dogs walking-titles begining... Machos (Studs) ( imdb.com/title/tt0374415/ ), and 'till this day I'm still fighting my mind from jumping to that shocking memories whenever I hear it. I find myself repeating "Tarantino, Tarantino, Tarantino..."
And the other side note, an anecdote. The first time I heard this song I swear I thought it was a latin excuse for a singer ( Luis Miguel ) doing some english, actually good song... I was almost killed by my friend when I commented her that this guy was doing his first interesting tune. After that, we looked for some happines and went Pa pa pa pa pa pa ....
About it's meaning, I've always thought it's about a bag of marihuana... think about it... a little green bag.
The guy is singing to a green bag to help him cope with his loneliness, in the search, looking back on a track, being jumpy (as if being followed, doing something illegal). Add the hippie era context and it makes perfect sense.
It's a great song, specially for its now unseparable relation to Reservoir Dogs, such a great yet simple movie.
But, on a couple of side notes, I have to add that here, in my country (Chile) this song was used for an advertising campaign for a realy mediocre TV soap opera, copying the whole Reservoir Dogs walking-titles begining... Machos (Studs) ( imdb.com/title/tt0374415/ ), and 'till this day I'm still fighting my mind from jumping to that shocking memories whenever I hear it. I find myself repeating "Tarantino, Tarantino, Tarantino..."
And the other side note, an anecdote. The first time I heard this song I swear I thought it was a latin excuse for a singer ( Luis Miguel ) doing some english, actually good song... I was almost killed by my friend when I commented her that this guy was doing his first interesting tune. After that, we looked for some happines and went Pa pa pa pa pa pa ....