Severed Hand interpretations....
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It seems to me that this song is pretty obviously about psychedelic drug use, like LSD or peyote.
"Got some kicks, wanna take a ride?" --> kicks = hits, ride = trip
"...leave yourself behind" --> hallucinagens sometimes give the sensation of being outside your body or escaping from something you cannot handle.
"tried to walk, found a severed hand...recognized it by the wedding band" --> he can't walk straight or see properly due to the drugs, he sees his hand, but is outside it, "severed" from it, and he only recognizes that it is his by the wedding ring
"If i don't lose control explore not explode" - often users of hallucinogens panic when their world starts to desolve. he realized that he must keep control and not explode
altogether, a great song0 -
Danni C wrote:It seems to me that this song is pretty obviously about psychedelic drug use, like LSD or peyote.
"Got some kicks, wanna take a ride?" --> kicks = hits, ride = trip
"...leave yourself behind" --> hallucinagens sometimes give the sensation of being outside your body or escaping from something you cannot handle.
"tried to walk, found a severed hand...recognized it by the wedding band" --> he can't walk straight or see properly due to the drugs, he sees his hand, but is outside it, "severed" from it, and he only recognizes that it is his by the wedding ring
"If i don't lose control explore not explode" - often users of hallucinogens panic when their world starts to desolve. he realized that he must keep control and not explode
altogether, a great song
further support to your interpretation:
"You'll see dragons after 3 or 4" - taking acid is often referred to as "chasing dragons"In my world everyone is a pony,
and they all eat rainbows and pooh butterflies!0 -
Never thought about that one.. yeah..0
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Severed Hand is about an acid addiction
Acid is a hullucigen
[youll be seein' dradons after three or four..
or the chorus for exampleboston: 7/91, 8/92, 4/94, 9/98(x2), 8/00(x2), 7/03(x3), 9/04(x2), 5/06(x2).
augusta: 9/96
montreal: 9/05
hartford: 5/06
St. Paul: 6/06
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Anybody mentioned before that "Severed Hand" is also a newcomer band that released their debut 1 year ago called "Keep Your Wives Inside" ?!
On the back side of their CD case you can see bride as well...Zürich 2000
Bern 2006
Southside Festival 2007
Berlin 2010
Berlin 1&2 2012
Milano 2014
EV-Solo Amsterdam 2017
Padova 2018
Prague 2018
Zürich 20220 -
go to wikipedia.org and search "dmt" which is a psychedelic drug. severed hand is mentioned on the page as being about this drug.0
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I was listening to an interview with McCready and he said that it was just one of those random songs that doesn't really make any sense at all. But I do see where there are drug references. He probably wasnt going to elaborate on that, so he left it as random. It is a damn good song though, one of the best on the album.Oh he fills it up with the love of a girl...0
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Androgynous Mind wrote:I was listening to an interview with McCready and he said that it was just one of those random songs that doesn't really make any sense at all.
Exactly.
I could never really pin point why, but something about this song always reminded me of Surrealism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism). It finally hit me the other day why. One of the courses I'm teaching is a survey of Modern art, and we watched the surrealist film Andalusian Dog by Luis Bunuel. A few minutes in, there is someone poking at a severed hand in the middle of the street.
Check it out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGXFBRviPi00
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