So, here's my sob story. I just discovered the glory of this album a few days ago, and it's quickly taken its place as one of my 5-or-so greatest albums of all time. And that's not easy to do; I'm pretty fucking hard to please, and I listen to quite a bit of music.
In particular, one of my favorite songs, for its musical quality and beauty, is Nobody's Here (as seems to be the case for a lot of people). I didn't pay a /ton/ of attention to the lyrics at first (except the chorus), but I wanted it to have some really deep, philosophical, psychological meaning.
So I look it up, and find out the entire damn song is about getting high off marijuana.
I don't want to alienate any pot smokers; in fact, I don't have a problem against pot. My problem is that I wanted this song to have an amazingly deep, thoughtful meaning, to complement the amazing musical beauty of the song. And finding out it's just about smoking a joint and feeling high, well, kind of crushes it for me. Can anyone see where I'm coming from? Has anyone had a similar experience to this (with this, or any other song)?
In particular, one of my favorite songs, for its musical quality and beauty, is Nobody's Here (as seems to be the case for a lot of people). I didn't pay a /ton/ of attention to the lyrics at first (except the chorus), but I wanted it to have some really deep, philosophical, psychological meaning.
So I look it up, and find out the entire damn song is about getting high off marijuana.
I don't want to alienate any pot smokers; in fact, I don't have a problem against pot. My problem is that I wanted this song to have an amazingly deep, thoughtful meaning, to complement the amazing musical beauty of the song. And finding out it's just about smoking a joint and feeling high, well, kind of crushes it for me. Can anyone see where I'm coming from? Has anyone had a similar experience to this (with this, or any other song)?