Spilled my Tincture

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  • Dissidentman
    Dissidentman Posts: 15,378
    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
    elwayvedder South Jersey Posts: 9,180
    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!"
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  • Claireack
    Claireack Posts: 13,561
    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!! :lol:

    I always get the lines wrong, always just hope that if anyone overhears me singing that they don't know the song. :D
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  • Backspacer_Backer
    Backspacer_Backer Posts: 1,023
    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
    oona left Posts: 1,677
    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
    Crazy Marcus Posts: 1,823
    So wait, you're telling me it's not "smell my T-Shirt"? :)
  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,451
    I thought he was saying "...you're still my teacher..."
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    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'
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,451
    definitely....that's also what all the lyric sites use

    brilliant
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  • Nikto
    Nikto Melbourne, Australia Posts: 192
    edited August 2009
    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.
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  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    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.

    I'm sorry (or maybe I'm not) ... but this made me laugh my ass off.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    Nikto wrote:
    When he talks about tincture and spilling his tincture he is talking about losing what makes him who he is. What give 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 make him unique is being lost or spilt.

    I think this is pretty good.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,451
    Nikto wrote:
    When he talks about tincture and spilling his tincture he is talking about losing what makes him who he is. What give 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 make him unique is being lost or spilt.

    kind of like Austin Powers losing his mojo...
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  • Corey Lynn
    Corey Lynn Posts: 681
    If somethings plain, you gotta put a little tincture on it


    If I knew where it was I would take you there. There's much more than this
  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,451
    good point
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    2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
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    2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
    2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt2
  • mr bungle
    mr bungle Posts: 1,425
    Best fucking thread in weeks!!! This goes to show you what a good song Corduroy is. 15 years later and the lyrics are still up for good conversation. Cheers to the staying power of Vitalogy!!
  • Jerome230
    Jerome230 Posts: 903
    Another thing about Corduroy's lyrics I've never understood...how can anyone make out the last lines of the song? I've seen and heard numerous sources that say that Ed says "It's your move now. I thought you were a friend but I guess I...I guess I hate you." Maybe someone had software that separated the vocals from the mix? I'd love to hear them sans music sometime.
    Ed...buddy...pal...stay true to your word and play Boise again.

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  • Claireack
    Claireack Posts: 13,561
    I've enjoyed this thread too.
    mr bungle wrote:
    Best fucking thread in weeks!!! This goes to show you what a good song Corduroy is. 15 years later and the lyrics are still up for good conversation. Cheers to the staying power of Vitalogy!!

    In fact I haven't listened to Vitology in ages so whilst decorating yesterday I put it on. Jiggled about a lot at the top of my ladder then when it got to 'spilled my tincture', laughed a lot, the paint brush flew out of my hand and landed on the carpet. Now have white paint on a blue carpet, does that mean I have experienced the spilling of tincture?

    :D
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  • dasvidana
    dasvidana Grand Junction CO Posts: 1,356
    All the alternate lyrics posted here read like a Weird Al Yankovich song.... Very entertaining.
    It's nice to be nice to the nice.
  • acutejam
    acutejam Posts: 1,433
    iTunes has the Bridge School slow acoustic version that's very clear....

    ... but I'm at work and don't have it at hand.
    I thought it was present tense though, commanding, go ahead, "spill my tincture"

    But I do luv this thread! The Blood, the essence of Ed and what not is ... DEEP!
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