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camper88
There are at least three kinds of lyrics in Stones songs:
1. The lyrics that we hear and understand and know pretty much what they mean, although we may disagree on the exact meaning or historical reference.
2. The lyrics we mishear and misunderstand, and as a result don't know what they mean, (I'll never leave your pizza burning) and
3. The lyrics we hear and understand but we still don't know what they mean.
Numbers 1 and 2 are easily dealt with, even though we may not always agree on what the lyrics mean: for example, is it Annie Leibowitz or Carly Simon? (It's Annie).
But the examples in #3 still confound me time and time again and I thought it'd be good to ask if other folks have lyrics they can understand but don't know what they mean and if they have any suggestions for the lyrics I can understand but don't know what they mean, for example:
1. I know I've dreamed you a sin and a lie
2. Let's do some living after we die
3. With his methylated sandwich/ He's a walking clothesline
4. Yes I got the desert in my toenail
5. Honey I miss your two-toned kisses. (or is this an example of #2: is it two-tongue?)
6. Did you ever wake up to find/ a day that broke up your mind/ Destroyed your notion of circular time?
7. But baby, baby, I don't need no jewels in my crown.
If anyone knows what these lines mean I'd be grateful to hear. If anyone's got any other examples, I'd be interested in hearing them.
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shawnriffhard1
4.I think this refers to hiding peyote under your toenail to get through customs.
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camper88
5. Honey I miss your two-toned kisses. (or is this an example of #2: is it two-tongue?)
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Aquamarine
Wasn't the toenails thing in reference to Keith's description of some inferior weed (or whatever) as being on a par with toenail clippings?
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shawnriffhard1
3.I've heard of far gone alcoholics dipping bread in Sterno to see them through when nothing else was available.
4.I think this refers to hiding peyote under your toenail to get through customs.
SRH,
Thanks these all make sense. These two (above) really surprise me, though. How big is a peyote stash?
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camper88
5. Honey I miss your two-toned kisses. (or is this an example of #2: is it two-tongue?)
I think it's two-tongue. The entire line is: Honey, I miss your two tongue kisses, legs wrapped around me tight. So to me it's a reference to 69.
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shawnriffhard1
3.I've heard of far gone alcoholics dipping bread in Sterno to see them through when nothing else was available.
4.I think this refers to hiding peyote under your toenail to get through customs.
SRH,
Thanks these all make sense. These two (above) really surprise me, though. How big is a peyote stash?
Hm, I always thought it was a "mentholated w", which then would be a flavor.
It's just my opinion, but I don't think every play of words has a deeper meaning, that is part of a storyline. Lyrics in songs are very often not linear; that is the idea. Could be a series of images.
"lt's do some living after we die" - grammatically it is all right there; it's not a play on words. So here it becomes a philosophical debate. Can we live after we die? is it better life? Is that the 'real' life that we are pining for through our days? Are we not even alive yet until we die??
What is interesting about that line is that Jagger does not sing that line anymore; hasn't sung it in quite a while. He sings "after love dies".
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Hm, I always thought it was a "mentholated sandwich", which then would be a flavor.
It's just my opinion, but I don't think every play of words has a deeper meaning, that is part of a storyline. Lyrics in songs are very often not linear; that is the idea. Could be a series of images.
Palace, I agree that not all phrases will make literal sense or narrative sense, but these examples escape me for all meaning--which is not to say that the interpretations offered here don't make sense, I mean in previous listening.
The other lines in Jigsaw Puzzle are pretty much straight forward, they're evocative and metaphoric but they're relatively clear in their meaning compared to the sandwich and clothesline lines.
I'm wondering if mentholated sandwich is just a cigarette, like a barley sandwich is a just a beer. and a walking clothesline is a person with no weight to them, just skin and bones?
Methylated I can make no sense of.
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DandelionPowderman
They still do that, don't they? Soaking the loaf in the methylated spirit..
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camper88
5. Honey I miss your two-toned kisses. (or is this an example of #2: is it two-tongue?)
I think it's two-tongue. The entire line is: Honey, I miss your two tongue kisses, legs wrapped around me tight. So to me it's a reference to 69.
Always thought it was "two tongue kisses" my self. But I might be wrong about it.....
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Aquamarine
Wasn't the toenails thing in reference to Keith's description of some inferior weed (or whatever) as being on a par with toenail clippings?
There was certainly something that was described as Mexican shoe-scrapings - but that's a different bit of the song.
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Aquamarine
Wasn't the toenails thing in reference to Keith's description of some inferior weed (or whatever) as being on a par with toenail clippings?
There was certainly something that was described as Mexican shoe-scrapings - but that's a different bit of the song.
True. I'm sure I read an explanation of that line somewhere, but darned if I can remember where--maybe I'm just confusing it with the shoe-scrapings.
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NICOS
Good question I thought it by myself but who want a dessert from a toenail
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Aquamarine
"Desert" and "dessert" aren't pronounced the same way. Mick's saying "desert" ( whatever he means by it).
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