Gordon Gano is a clever and intelligent lyricist. You can tell intelligent by the words in his vast vocabulary. And if you didn't know he was also a member of N.H.S. (national honors society)
Gano was a mere kid when he wrote this self titled Debut album, this song touches base a a couple key elements, he is talking about how he is high on Heroin, this drug, not any other. He's strung out, when they recorded this album, there is a recording of Gordon on an answering machine saying his dad locked him in the basement and he wouldnt be able to make it. They included this recording on the Add it Up album which has different versions of their previous hits, as well as some new tracks mixed in.
Add it up was put together mostly to meet obligations to their record company at the time, i believe it may have been Rhino but im not positive. Gordon Gano's father would lock him in the basement in an effort to prevent the 17 year old then from obtaining Heroin. (maybe he was 18, I'm doing this from memory and i researched this band many years ago so my facts may be a little of, but they are close enough)
"let me go on" clearly a refence to complaining, teen angst type shit im sure.
"like i blister in the sun" you ever have a sun burn with blisters? It's fucking hell! you complain a lot about the pain. maybe Gordon was cleverly using this as a metaphor for being dope sick.
As for the masturbation reference? "Body and beats /I stain my sheets / I don't even know why / My girlfriend / she's at the end / She is starting to cry"
Body n beats is whacking off, stain my sheets with cum stains.
his girlfriends frustrated with him, either because he's shooting up and a junky, or it may be because When you use Heroin it can mess with your sex drive. and he's jerkin off instead of banging his girl. (cum stains on his sheets could have tipped her off possibly, or she thinks hes cheating, maybe he is cheating. He does mention getting high strutting his stuff and possibly, "checking you out"
i will share this, i personally was addicted to Heroin for 10 years, (clean 5 + now) i would often prefer beating off to having sex with my girlfriend, I would think about how messed up it was, and wonder what was wrong with me, why wouldnt i just have sex with my girlfriend, this could be what Gano was going through,, only he truly can explain. WHICH THE FEMMES DID DO!
This is where i have to leave it to you to decide what he is saying, The femmes themselves claim it is about a bald woman they saw or maybe knew, im not sure. All they said about its meaning were these exact words "Its about a bald woman"
They may have been fucking with us or not.
It could possibly be that she is the blister in the sun and bitching, and Gano used this line to describe the Bald woman. "Going on like a blister in the sun"
Staining his sheets could be caused from pissing his pants from laughing sooo hard, and his girlfriend's in tears from laughing so hard.and we all know when you are high things are a lot funnier. He might have been "checking out" the Bald woman which they claim this song is about.
Now, Knowing how clever Gano is and having obsessed over this band since i first started liking music, it could be a safe bet he may have found a clever way for this song to be about all the things i talked about.
@mr1man2 I never thought of this, bit now that you mention it this seems most plausible, I too was addicted to heroin for 9 years clean for over 2 years. And I agree on heroin you rather masterbate than have sex. I definitely feel like i stain my sheets is about masterbating but i think when he says my girlfriend she's at the end she is starting to cry is about his girlfriend being upset about his drug use & the struggle of dating an addict a lot of lying & sneaking around & they don't understand why...
@mr1man2 I never thought of this, bit now that you mention it this seems most plausible, I too was addicted to heroin for 9 years clean for over 2 years. And I agree on heroin you rather masterbate than have sex. I definitely feel like i stain my sheets is about masterbating but i think when he says my girlfriend she's at the end she is starting to cry is about his girlfriend being upset about his drug use & the struggle of dating an addict a lot of lying & sneaking around & they don't understand why you can't just stop. The only thing im not sure what Gano's referring to is when he says big hands, I know you're the one.
Gordon Gano is a clever and intelligent lyricist. You can tell intelligent by the words in his vast vocabulary. And if you didn't know he was also a member of N.H.S. (national honors society)
Gano was a mere kid when he wrote this self titled Debut album, this song touches base a a couple key elements, he is talking about how he is high on Heroin, this drug, not any other. He's strung out, when they recorded this album, there is a recording of Gordon on an answering machine saying his dad locked him in the basement and he wouldnt be able to make it. They included this recording on the Add it Up album which has different versions of their previous hits, as well as some new tracks mixed in.
Add it up was put together mostly to meet obligations to their record company at the time, i believe it may have been Rhino but im not positive. Gordon Gano's father would lock him in the basement in an effort to prevent the 17 year old then from obtaining Heroin. (maybe he was 18, I'm doing this from memory and i researched this band many years ago so my facts may be a little of, but they are close enough)
"let me go on" clearly a refence to complaining, teen angst type shit im sure. "like i blister in the sun" you ever have a sun burn with blisters? It's fucking hell! you complain a lot about the pain. maybe Gordon was cleverly using this as a metaphor for being dope sick.
As for the masturbation reference? "Body and beats /I stain my sheets / I don't even know why / My girlfriend / she's at the end / She is starting to cry" Body n beats is whacking off, stain my sheets with cum stains. his girlfriends frustrated with him, either because he's shooting up and a junky, or it may be because When you use Heroin it can mess with your sex drive. and he's jerkin off instead of banging his girl. (cum stains on his sheets could have tipped her off possibly, or she thinks hes cheating, maybe he is cheating. He does mention getting high strutting his stuff and possibly, "checking you out"
i will share this, i personally was addicted to Heroin for 10 years, (clean 5 + now) i would often prefer beating off to having sex with my girlfriend, I would think about how messed up it was, and wonder what was wrong with me, why wouldnt i just have sex with my girlfriend, this could be what Gano was going through,, only he truly can explain. WHICH THE FEMMES DID DO!
This is where i have to leave it to you to decide what he is saying, The femmes themselves claim it is about a bald woman they saw or maybe knew, im not sure. All they said about its meaning were these exact words "Its about a bald woman" They may have been fucking with us or not.
It could possibly be that she is the blister in the sun and bitching, and Gano used this line to describe the Bald woman. "Going on like a blister in the sun"
Staining his sheets could be caused from pissing his pants from laughing sooo hard, and his girlfriend's in tears from laughing so hard.and we all know when you are high things are a lot funnier. He might have been "checking out" the Bald woman which they claim this song is about.
Now, Knowing how clever Gano is and having obsessed over this band since i first started liking music, it could be a safe bet he may have found a clever way for this song to be about all the things i talked about.
@mr1man2 I never thought of this, bit now that you mention it this seems most plausible, I too was addicted to heroin for 9 years clean for over 2 years. And I agree on heroin you rather masterbate than have sex. I definitely feel like i stain my sheets is about masterbating but i think when he says my girlfriend she's at the end she is starting to cry is about his girlfriend being upset about his drug use & the struggle of dating an addict a lot of lying & sneaking around & they don't understand why...
@mr1man2 I never thought of this, bit now that you mention it this seems most plausible, I too was addicted to heroin for 9 years clean for over 2 years. And I agree on heroin you rather masterbate than have sex. I definitely feel like i stain my sheets is about masterbating but i think when he says my girlfriend she's at the end she is starting to cry is about his girlfriend being upset about his drug use & the struggle of dating an addict a lot of lying & sneaking around & they don't understand why you can't just stop. The only thing im not sure what Gano's referring to is when he says big hands, I know you're the one.