Spilled my Tincture

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what's the board's collective interpretation on this in Corduroy

South of Seattle

csickels wrote:

what's the board's collective interpretation on this in Corduroy

Ummm . . . He spilled his Tincture.

I don't think it's any deeper than that.

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South of Seattle wrote:

csickels wrote:

what's the board's collective interpretation on this in Corduroy

Ummm . . . He spilled his Tincture.

I don't think it's any deeper than that.

ok, well i feel really stupid for looking up tincture on wikipedia, reading the entire entry, and still not understanding the meaning in Corduroy. i understand it's an alcoholic extract, so is it just eddie whining about spilling his booze? if so, that's hilarious.

mrvedderson

csickels wrote:

South of Seattle wrote:

csickels wrote:

what's the board's collective interpretation on this in Corduroy

Ummm . . . He spilled his Tincture.

I don't think it's any deeper than that.

ok, well i feel really stupid for looking up tincture on wikipedia, reading the entire entry, and still not understanding the meaning in Corduroy. i understand it's an alcoholic extract, so is it just eddie whining about spilling his booze? if so, that's hilarious.

i thought a tincture was the ink well for an old school pen.

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i couldn't find anything on the web to that effect (ink well), but here are the defitions i did find (I was earlier referring to the 4th and 5th. the first one could be ink in a broad sense i suppose.

tincture
noun
a pigment or other substance that colours or dyes
a tint, or an added colour
(tincture): a colour or metal used in the depiction of a coat of arms.
An alcoholic extract of plant material, used as a medicine
(jocular) a small alcoholic drink
an essential characteristic

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just realized i posted this in the wrong forum. my bad, not enough sleep last night.

dunkman

its the medicinal reference... vitalogy being a book about medicine and stuff he probably acquired it from that book...

Guitarhero27

spelled my t-shirt

JTH

csickels wrote:

just realized i posted this in the wrong forum. my bad, not enough sleep last night.

Oops. Uh, well, they do play it live a hell of a lot.

Anyway, my interpretation: There could be the Vitalogy/medicine connection, but I always just figured that it's a good word to use that (kinda) rhymes with picture. Hell, when the album first came out, I thought it was "t-shirt" and when I finally figured out that it was actually "tincture" I remember thinking to myself "well, that makes a whole lot more sense."

P.S. Is it really "varmint's path"? I've always thought it was "firmest path". And where the hell are the rest of the lyrics?

Dissidentman

I always looked at it from a human body perspective. What do we all have that could be considered a dyeing or staining agent - Blood. He uses that blood reference a lot in the song "pay it off in blood", "cut up and half dead". Maybe he didn't want to use the word blood again, and like someone else said it does rhyme with "picture"

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Dissidentman wrote:

I always looked at it from a human body perspective. What do we all have that could be considered a dyeing or staining agent - Blood. He uses that blood reference a lot in the song "pay it off in blood", "cut up and half dead". Maybe he didn't want to use the word blood again, and like someone else said it does rhyme with "picture"

i like that, makes sense. maybe tincture works on an even deeper level here too - in that it's blood solved in alcohol.

Spags

He's not saying "still my teacher" then... :oops:

Dissidentman

csickels wrote:

Dissidentman wrote:

I always looked at it from a human body perspective. What do we all have that could be considered a dyeing or staining agent - Blood. He uses that blood reference a lot in the song "pay it off in blood", "cut up and half dead". Maybe he didn't want to use the word blood again, and like someone else said it does rhyme with "picture"

i like that, makes sense. maybe tincture works on an even deeper level here too - in that it's blood solved in alcohol.

I like that... I think we have it solved... lol

tacet

Makes perfect sense now because I was beginning to wonder why Ed would want
to have someone feel his sphincter.

wozza77

I always thought it refered to the line before it about picture. Theory that people lose a bit of their soul everytime they have their picture taken. His tincture to me was his extracted spirit they were spilling. Maybe looking a bit deep into it but I was always interested by that line

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Dissidentman wrote:

csickels wrote:

Dissidentman wrote:

I always looked at it from a human body perspective. What do we all have that could be considered a dyeing or staining agent - Blood. He uses that blood reference a lot in the song "pay it off in blood", "cut up and half dead". Maybe he didn't want to use the word blood again, and like someone else said it does rhyme with "picture"

i like that, makes sense. maybe tincture works on an even deeper level here too - in that it's blood solved in alcohol.

I like that... I think we have it solved... lol

not bad for the wrong board!

DeLukin

Back in the day I always thought it was '(ex)scuse my t-shirt' like someone was taking his picture and his t-shirt had something inappropriate on it. Tincture is much more mysterious though. And I like the blood theory, never considered that but it makes sense.

Dissidentman

SS25454 wrote:

Makes perfect sense now because I was beginning to wonder why Ed would want
to have someone feel his sphincter.

He's singing about the "reach around"? hmmm... I've never looked at it from that angle.

jbmulder9

the most disputed of all the good times lyrics

i have ALWAYS wondered about that line also...

velogator

Dissidentman wrote:

I always looked at it from a human body perspective. What do we all have that could be considered a dyeing or staining agent - Blood. He uses that blood reference a lot in the song "pay it off in blood", "cut up and half dead". Maybe he didn't want to use the word blood again, and like someone else said it does rhyme with "picture"

I think you have something here...the song is about the "overbearingness" of celebrity, so this interpretation would make sense. I even convinced myself that the lyric was something else, since I couldn't figure out what "tincture" had to do with the song, as I always think of tincture in its medicinal sense.

YourDirtisMyfood

tincture 12 up, 7 down
Tinture (Tin-shure) Is an amber to dark green liquid, (alchol) that has been used to melt the thc crystals off pot.Users put drops under their tounge or even take shots.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tincture

Dissidentman

velogator wrote:

Dissidentman wrote:

I always looked at it from a human body perspective. What do we all have that could be considered a dyeing or staining agent - Blood. He uses that blood reference a lot in the song "pay it off in blood", "cut up and half dead". Maybe he didn't want to use the word blood again, and like someone else said it does rhyme with "picture"

I think you have something here...the song is about the "overbearingness" of celebrity, so this interpretation would make sense. I even convinced myself that the lyric was something else, since I couldn't figure out what "tincture" had to do with the song, as I always think of tincture in its medicinal sense.

I think he uses the same imagry in that one line "spill my tincture" as he does in the song BLOOD. He equates a great deal of the negative aspect of celebrity to a bloodletting.

elwayvedder

flame on for me being in the minority here but i am old school and stubborn and still insist its:

"Take my hand, not my picture...spilled on t-shirts"

as if ed would rather have us hold his hand and not throw images of him on t-shirts and thus making him an idol.

Just my 2 cents. "Carry on!"

Claireack

UncleSpaggles wrote:

He's not saying "still my teacher" then

SS25454 wrote:

Makes perfect sense now because I was beginning to wonder why Ed would want
to have someone feel his sphincter.

LOL!!! I love em!!

I always get the lines wrong, always just hope that if anyone overhears me singing that they don't know the song.

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elwayvedder wrote:

flame on for me being in the minority here but i am old school and stubborn and still insist its:

"Take my hand, not my picture...spilled on t-shirts"

as if ed would rather have us hold his hand and not throw images of him on t-shirts and thus making him an idol.

Just my 2 cents. "Carry on!"

i like that too, honestly. do we know definititively? IE, were there lyrics released with any version of the album?

oona left

I always thought the line was

"Take my hand, not my picture,
Steal my t-shirt,"

As an ode to social and political activist Abbie Hoffman. The book "Steal This Book" inspired many activists (Earth First included?), especially in the 70's. The phrase "steal this t-shirt" is occasionally seen around town (Chicago), especially on shirts advertising bars.

http://www.stealthistshirt.com/

Well, that's what I sing in my car, anyway... :? posting.php?mode=reply&f=5&t=108806#

Crazy Marcus

So wait, you're telling me it's not "smell my T-Shirt"?

Gern Blansten

I thought he was saying "...you're still my teacher..."

dunkman

put on headphones
listen to this at approx 3mins 12 secs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgHbwp0zSxM

i clearly make it out, and always have done, to be "spilled my tincture"...
the boots from the last few years are quite clear and if you have good headphones its clearly 'tincture'

Gern Blansten

definitely....that's also what all the lyric sites use

brilliant

Nikto

When he talks about tincture and spilling his tincture he is talking about losing what makes him who he is. What gives him his 'special characteristic' like when you give something a tint. As someone else mentioned the song is about fame - people trying to be Eddie by wearing the same clothes etc. what makes him unique is being lost or spilt.