Lyric Genius seems to think it's mostly about heroin abuse. Gavin Rossdale said it's about "ego." Those aren't mutually exclusive. The lyrics express, in a general sense, a discontent with the speaker's status quo, but a simultaneous unwillingness or inability to abandon it completely. The mantra "breathe in, breathe out" suggests either mindless repetitive behavior or the exact opposite - the taking conscious control over an automatic process by choice. "Tied to a wheel" suggests not really being able to stop moving, only perhaps change directions. "Our fingers gotta feel" - a need for sensation. Possibly, a sense of jaded numbness. The line "Bleeding through a tourniquet smile" conjures the image of someone enjoying the very thing that's slowly killing him, and indeed could be a heroin reference. "I felt you like electric light" - and then suddenly something changed. Like flipping on a light switch. For a moment, the speaker comes out of his numbness, or his stupor. "For our love, for our fear/ for our rise against the years and years and years" The speaker realizes something has to change. He can't keep going on like this. For the sake of the person he loves, and his own fear of what could happen if things go on this way for years, he has to find a way to make a change in his life. "Machinehead" could be a state of thinking and acting mechanically, automatically. Without conscious thought or even conscious experience. Autopilot, perhaps, or escapism. It could describe a state wherein the speaker escapes from his dissatisfaction with life, perhaps through drug use. Or it could be the automatic, habitual behaviors he engages in that he's dissatisfied with. "It's better than the rest" suggests that whatever this drug, habit or other escape from reality is, it's better than the other options he's tried. His vice of choice. Better than facing life. Either way, the desire to turn "green to red" and "walk from my machine" seems to express a desire to eventually change this state - to stop living in escapism or to stop the mechanical, joyless habits that he's stuck in - and to engage in a more intentional, mindful life. These sentiments of self-frustration are revisited in the next verse. "Deaf, dumb and thirty, starting to deserve this" - The speaker's lifestyle has left him numb, feeling dull, and not only is he getting too old for this, he feels like if it goes on much longer, he'll deserve what comes of it. He knows what he's doing is killing him. "Leaning on my conscience wall" - and despite how good it may feel, he can't ignore his guilt like he used to. "Blood is like wine, unconscious all the time" - he's so doped up with whatever is in his system that it's like he can't think consciously. He's so drunk or high that he's just acting in his "machinehead" state again, falling into bad habits that he's all too used to. "If I had it all again I'd change it all" expresses the overall sentiment of the whole song. He regrets his current state and wants to change. But he doesn't feel like he can. Maybe his love and his fears will be enough to get him to walk away from his habits, but it's not a sure thing. If he could go back in time to change his choices, he'd change everything.
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i missed the moment you started adding so many songs i needed!!!! Thank you
I swear, Bush has most awful lyrics but man, the music is so awesome lol
Grunge gibberish was de rigeur, you were supposed to be an angsty teen, and apply it to YOUR life (center of all existence at 16 years old).
Yes.
@@peensteendude can you talk normal?
Awful lyrics? Sorry metaphor is above your head. This is when songs were actually about something.
Lol
Visceral !!!
My dead dads song❤️
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Boss MOUTH by BUSH
what the hell is this song about?
Lyric Genius seems to think it's mostly about heroin abuse. Gavin Rossdale said it's about "ego." Those aren't mutually exclusive. The lyrics express, in a general sense, a discontent with the speaker's status quo, but a simultaneous unwillingness or inability to abandon it completely.
The mantra "breathe in, breathe out" suggests either mindless repetitive behavior or the exact opposite - the taking conscious control over an automatic process by choice. "Tied to a wheel" suggests not really being able to stop moving, only perhaps change directions.
"Our fingers gotta feel" - a need for sensation. Possibly, a sense of jaded numbness. The line "Bleeding through a tourniquet smile" conjures the image of someone enjoying the very thing that's slowly killing him, and indeed could be a heroin reference.
"I felt you like electric light" - and then suddenly something changed. Like flipping on a light switch. For a moment, the speaker comes out of his numbness, or his stupor.
"For our love, for our fear/ for our rise against the years and years and years" The speaker realizes something has to change. He can't keep going on like this. For the sake of the person he loves, and his own fear of what could happen if things go on this way for years, he has to find a way to make a change in his life.
"Machinehead" could be a state of thinking and acting mechanically, automatically. Without conscious thought or even conscious experience. Autopilot, perhaps, or escapism. It could describe a state wherein the speaker escapes from his dissatisfaction with life, perhaps through drug use. Or it could be the automatic, habitual behaviors he engages in that he's dissatisfied with. "It's better than the rest" suggests that whatever this drug, habit or other escape from reality is, it's better than the other options he's tried. His vice of choice. Better than facing life.
Either way, the desire to turn "green to red" and "walk from my machine" seems to express a desire to eventually change this state - to stop living in escapism or to stop the mechanical, joyless habits that he's stuck in - and to engage in a more intentional, mindful life.
These sentiments of self-frustration are revisited in the next verse.
"Deaf, dumb and thirty, starting to deserve this" - The speaker's lifestyle has left him numb, feeling dull, and not only is he getting too old for this, he feels like if it goes on much longer, he'll deserve what comes of it. He knows what he's doing is killing him.
"Leaning on my conscience wall" - and despite how good it may feel, he can't ignore his guilt like he used to.
"Blood is like wine, unconscious all the time" - he's so doped up with whatever is in his system that it's like he can't think consciously. He's so drunk or high that he's just acting in his "machinehead" state again, falling into bad habits that he's all too used to.
"If I had it all again I'd change it all" expresses the overall sentiment of the whole song. He regrets his current state and wants to change. But he doesn't feel like he can. Maybe his love and his fears will be enough to get him to walk away from his habits, but it's not a sure thing. If he could go back in time to change his choices, he'd change everything.
I think he got new machine heads for his guitar and wrote a song about it.
Hahaha!! @@adiohead
@@nightsong81put better than I ever could, I think you pretty much nailed it
Driving a motorcycle fast and hard, of course.