No, it’s about punching a guy in the jingle-jangles.
That’s way too blankety a statement, crowned by the “any”.
Uh…? Anybody/Everybody that’s ever done coke???
I’ve always heard the best is sex on coke, but what does a mere stoner like me know?
If you think sex on coke is the best you really need to try it on Pepsi…
RC for BJ!
Robert Lamm says that Chicago’s 25 or 6 to 4 is about trying to write a song in the middle of the night. That is bullshit; the song is obviously about drugs. And I’m the guy who always argues against songs being about drugs. But come on: “wondering how much I can take”, “should I try to do some more”, “staring blindly into space”, “spinning room is sinking deep”. These are at least intentional double entendres.
Actually it describes the writing process pretty well.
I’ve never done drugs and I find all of that relatable.
Especially if you’re writing while also holding down a full-time job.
…and doing drugs.
(At 3:34 am, so you can stay awake to finish writing before you have go to your day job.)
The story I heard on Siruis/XM was that he had a guitar riff that he liked, but he couldn’t think of any words for it, so he just started doing a stream of consciousness of what was going on at that time of the. . . (*day? night?) as filler. He never did come us with any ‘real’ lyrics, so they just recorded the filler lyrics.
*Ray Bradbury in “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” I believe, referred to 3 AM as “too late to be called night and too early to be called day.”
I for one can’t figure out how a song with the line “I’ll stay with you till my seeds are dried up” (NO, it is not “I’ll stay with you till the seas are dried up”) got on the radio in 1967!
I’ve long heard that Sammy Davis’ “Candy Man” is about drugs. It could be, I guess.
It’s about Willy Wonka.
I think there’s this thing where an artist writes a song, it becomes successful, and then the artist tries to pretend the song isn’t about what everyone thinks it’s about. Maybe they believe the audience isn’t allowed to be on their level. Maybe they just like playing a joke at the audience’s expense. Regardless, pop culture is filled with songs that are about [this or that], for realzies, even as the writer steadfastly insists that it isn’t.
Tony Basil has been pretty coy about it for decades, but let’s not kid ourselves: “Hey Mickey” is about anal sex.
“Come on and give it to me any way you can. Any way you wanna do it I’ll take you like a man.”
And “Hotel California” is absolutely about drug addiction. “You can check out any time you like but you can never leave” so succinctly and so poetically describes drug addiction.
Hmmmm…how about “Any Way You Want It”?
Annnnd let’s NOT get started on “Brown-Eyed Girl”…
I always thought the last verse was about the JFK assassination.