AboutJoe Expertise I can answer any question you have about the band! Song questions, lyrics questions, equipment questions. I can also answer quetions on playing Bush songs on the guitar.
Experience I've been a fan since the beginning and I know all sorts of little facts and bits of information. I've also run my own popular Bush website for 2 years now.
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Expert: Joe Date: 4/13/2005 Subject: Bush-Glycerine Lyrics
Question Hi My best friend and I are doing a poetry analiysis on the song Glycerine and we needed some help what does he mean here:
Must be your skin I'm sinking in must be for real cos now i can feel
we live in a wheel where everyone steels
couldnt love you more you got a beautiful taste
and It could have been easier by three our old friend fear and you and me
My friend and I have interpreted these lines and we have some what mixed opnions and if you could share your opinion it would help us out a lot thanks so much.
Answer Hey - below is a copy of an answer to your question I gave someone a while back... It does not break the song line by line, but hopefully it will help you to understand the song better.
Remember - Gavins writing is very surreal much like Allen Ginsberg's writing. In other words, its just random word poetry - not everything has a literal meaning. SOmetimes he is just playing with words.
Specific to your question - I believe that our old friend fear and you an me is talking about how he and this person (that he loves) are together... with "fear" a person they know well. They have both been afraid to be together or to live life together.
I hope that helps... again, below is more notes on the song I wrote for people awhile back.
-Joe
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If you dig around the dozens of Bush sites, many people explain the song (their intrepretation) and many people often quote Gavin. It's misleading because Gavin has stated in an interview last year that he almost never discusses his songs and he finds it funny when people claim they know why he wrote it.
We do know that before Bush became famous and during the time Gavin wrote Sixteen Stone's songs that he was dating a girl. I totally forget her name now - not being a girl I don't pay close attention to Gavin's dating - but he mentioned once how he loved her very much, but their relationship ended because of Bush's success. [the band being away for so long and him and her being apart.]
It is widely accepted or assumed amoung Bush fans that Swallowed is about their breakup. Thus, we also assume that Glycerine (if it is written about anyone) is written about her.
If you collect Bush bootlegs, Gavin once in awhile introduces songs before he plays them and sometimes gives a few words about the meaning.
Glycerine's lyrics are very surreal (odd and not connected.) You can't take anything literally in them... for example bad moon whine again - it flat out makes no sense. Gavin often writes things that sound cool / rhyme but don't necessarially mean anything.
So to attempt to answer your question - most bush fans accept that Glycerine was written about a girl he loved very much. All the lyrics are about her.
Glycerine defined is actually a few different things. Most commonly it is a chemical used by actors to make it look like they are crying.... so if you see an actor on tv crying it may only be a drop of glycerine put on their face too look like a tear - we don't know if that is important in the song or not.
Don't let the days go by is the line he keeps repeating - we're assuming he may be saying love the one you love and don't waste time.
So, I hope that kind of helps to answer your question. :) I realize it may not, but your question simply may have no answer.
