Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Time Bomb

The new DMB album (Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King) is fantastic musically, and weird lyrically (Like usual). This one stuck out to me.


I'm a ticking time bomb
Waiting to blow my top
No one would ever know
Not until I blew up

No one would believe it
He was such a normal guy
Shake their heads and wonder why

If Martians fell from the sky
What would that do to god?
Would we put the weapons down
Or aim it up at the sky

No one would believe it
Except the fucking nut jobs
They laugh and cry we told you so

Baby when I get home
I want to believe in Jesus
Hammer in the final nail
Help me pick up the pieces

When everything starts to fall
So fast that it terrifies you
When will you hit the wall?
Are you gonna learn to fly?

No one would believe it
Except for all the people
Watching as you fly away

Baby when I get home
I want to pick up the pieces
Hammer in the final nail
And lean me up against Jesus

Baby when I get home
I want to believe in Jesus
You can Hammer in the final nail
But help me pick up
the pieces

Baby when I get home
Help me pick up the pieces
You can hammer in the final nail
I wanna believe in Jesus


What the heck is he trying to say??

If I had to take a stab at it I would say that he wants to believe that there is a God but he doesn't really see any proof of it - I'm mixing these lyrics with what I already kind of know about him.

Later on in the album on the song "Why I Am" he says this.

And when my story ends it's gonna end with him.
Heaven or hell I'm going there with the GrooGrux King.


It sounds to me like he believes that there is a Heaven and a Hell, it doesn't sound like he knows where he is going.

Or he's just making a point about how much he loved his friend, who knows.


What do you think??

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