Was eddie high when he wrote severed hand

into the jaminto the jam Posts: 54
edited October 2008 in The Porch
I love this song.... I think that is one of the best songs on Avocado (behind come back and WWS) but I really dont understand the linesand the lyrics.

for example;

tried to walk found a severed hand...recognized it from the wedding band

its ok do you want some more I say yes... youll se dragons after three or four I say yes.

Im not falling down... take a look around rooms taller now.

I can close my eyes cuase I see the sound in waves....

And it goes on... I dont see any coherence line in this song... If you do please explain to me....
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  • luv-ed91luv-ed91 Posts: 215
    I don't know, but I was high when I was listening to it, & I understood it completely :)
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  • yes he was, he was high on toad
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  • LiteTheMatchLiteTheMatch Posts: 1,208
    A child's rhyme stuck in my head...
    It said "Life is nothing but a dream."
    I've spent so many years in question
    To find I'd known this all along.
  • luv-ed91luv-ed91 Posts: 215

    Thanks 4 the laugh :) I could really relate to that video - except for the chicken thing & the ketchup chips :D
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  • eldarion75eldarion75 Posts: 2,488
    apparently it's about ecstasy...he said as much in the rolling stone interview...
    the song fairly accurately describes what happens when you neck some E..it's fun but i wouldn't recommend it. Suicide tuesday usually follows...
  • Got to love the song, nice opener for Camden II '08. Never expected that one.
  • luv-ed91 wrote:
    I don't know, but I was high when I was listening to it, & I understood it completely :)

    Haha, definitely.
  • eldarion75 wrote:
    apparently it's about ecstasy...he said as much in the rolling stone interview...
    the song fairly accurately describes what happens when you neck some E..it's fun but i wouldn't recommend it. Suicide tuesday usually follows...

    I'd say it more accurately describes an acid trip, or some sort of tripping. Did he really say it was about rolling on ecstasy in the rolling stone? link?
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  • 12345AGNST112345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    I heard somewhere that Ed doesn't do drugs anymore because of his daughter. Im sure the song was written about his life in the past, not current life when he was writing the song.

    Ed admitted to taking E and trying a few techno songs back in 2000 in Rolling Stone.
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  • NewJPageNewJPage Posts: 3,311
    I'd say it more accurately describes an acid trip, or some sort of tripping. Did he really say it was about rolling on ecstasy in the rolling stone? link?

    i think what he said was that it was about a hallucinagenic spiritual journey he went on in south america with the aid of some natural "devices."
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  • writersuwritersu Posts: 1,867
    I love this song.... I think that is one of the best songs on Avocado (behind come back and WWS) but I really dont understand the linesand the lyrics.

    for example;

    tried to walk found a severed hand...recognized it from the wedding band

    its ok do you want some more I say yes... youll se dragons after three or four I say yes.

    Im not falling down... take a look around rooms taller now.

    I can close my eyes cuase I see the sound in waves....

    And it goes on... I dont see any coherence line in this song... If you do please explain to me....


    I have no actual explanation for this, but I thought the wedding band meant like a band that played at the wedding.....and that someone recognized it from the wedding band. I thought the words said they recognized him from the wedding band.......(don't know the exact words) and then of course, yeah, I too thought that it referred to drugs ......tripping like drugs.......and although I have never done ecstasy but I guess it is a tripping like thing?
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  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    I think the ring was on the cut off hand.
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  • Jeff spoke about this song when the album came out.

    It is just saying 'fuck it' for a night..
  • writersu wrote:
    I have no actual explanation for this, but I thought the wedding band meant like a band that played at the wedding.....and that someone recognized it from the wedding band. I thought the words said they recognized him from the wedding band.......(don't know the exact words) and then of course, yeah, I too thought that it referred to drugs ......tripping like drugs.......and although I have never done ecstasy but I guess it is a tripping like thing?

    Its wedding band, as in a ring..

    the severed hand is his, due to the fact that he is tripping balls...just like you'll see dragons after 3 or 4...3 or 4 what? pills, grams..whatever it is you'll be tripping baaaalls
  • writersu wrote:
    .....and although I have never done ecstasy but I guess it is a tripping like thing?

    It's not considered a trip. Like when you do acid you are tripping but when you do ecstasy you're said to be "rolling."

    Interesting that I know that
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  • LiteTheMatchLiteTheMatch Posts: 1,208
    yes, i agree that this is definitely about an entheogenic experience. If you've taken "magic mushrooms" or lsd or any kind of entheogenic substance, the lyrics relate so well. I will type more later, I am at work lol.
    A child's rhyme stuck in my head...
    It said "Life is nothing but a dream."
    I've spent so many years in question
    To find I'd known this all along.
  • writersuwritersu Posts: 1,867
    Its wedding band, as in a ring..

    the severed hand is his, due to the fact that he is tripping balls...just like you'll see dragons after 3 or 4...3 or 4 what? pills, grams..whatever it is you'll be tripping baaaalls


    wow, cool I can see that........

    I like the part when he is asked if he wants some more......(.isn't it?)
    I said "Yeah!!!!!!"

    good song and now I can see more about this; thanks.
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    Together we will float like angels.........

    In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
  • high or not, its a killer old school Pearl Jam song.
  • i think we need less wave references

    just a thought
    ..how did it come to this?
  • The Boston 2006 says it all!
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