| Mercury From "Recovering The Satellites" She is trapped inside a month of gray And they take a little every day She is a victim of her own responses Shackeld to a heart that wants to settle And then runs away It's a sin to be Fading endlessly But she's alright with me She is leaving on a walkaway She is leaving me in disarray In the absence of a place to be She stands there looking back at me Hesitates- And then turns away She'll change so suddenly She's just like Mercury Yeah, but she's alright with me Keep some sorrow In your hearts and minds For the things that die Before their time For the restllessly abandoned homes The tired and weary rambler's bones That stay beside me Where I lie She's entwined with me Crazy as can be But she's alright with me She's alright w/ me She's alright w/ me She's alright w/ me |
| The best way to describe the meaning is to paraphrase the way AD introduced it at Woodstock '99: "I had this girlfriend and she was just 50 miles of bad road. She was just so fuckin' twisted inside. So like everything she touched just turned to shit. And she touched me all the time. And you know I was just so addicted to it, you spend your time and you get your need built up and you need it. And you want it. And they'll give it you a little at a time. The rest of the time they're like knives and you turn around and they just stick at...stick at... stick at...twisted. And you can't really trust them because nothing they say is the truth because nothing ever stays the same and everything changes just like mercury." I really can't expand on that any further. I've been in the same situation. The sad thing is that it's happened more than once. It started with the girl I spoke about regarding the lyrics to "'Round Here" and just happened again with the first girl I met here in Jersey. Nothing was ever the same and nothing I said or did was ever right. I was constantly on my toes defending myself, but then it would all change and everyone would be happy. It drove me up a wall more than once. And what's even scarier is that in both situations I was aware of it before the walls came tumbling down. And she's alright with me... |