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I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' about half past dead
I just need some place where I can lay my head
"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand, "no" was all he said
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
I picked up my bag, I went lookin' for a place to hide
When I saw Carmen and the Devil walkin' side by side
I said, "Hey, Carmen, come on let's go downtown"
She said, "I gotta go but my friend can stick around"
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Go down, Miss Moses, there's nothin' you can say
It's just ol' Luke and Luke's waitin' on the Judgment Day
"Well, Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee?"
He said, "Do me a favor, son, won'tcha stay and keep Anna Lee company?"
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Crazy Chester followed me and he caught me in the fog
He said, "I will fix your rack if you'll take Jack, my dog"
I said, "Wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man"
He said, "That's okay, boy, won't you feed him when you can"
Yeah, take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Catch a cannon ball now to take me down the line
My bag is sinkin' low and I do believe it's time
To get back to Miss Fanny, you know she's the only one
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me) | zvQ1kYctxemy7yKt | 106061 | The Band was awesome, my favourite dvd is the Last Waltz where this song just shines, i'm not sure exactly what its all about, but the harmony and melody of this song is simply breathtakenjonosuron April 15, 2004 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' about half past dead
I just need some place where I can lay my head
"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand, "no" was all he said
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
I picked up my bag, I went lookin' for a place to hide
When I saw Carmen and the Devil walkin' side by side
I said, "Hey, Carmen, come on let's go downtown"
She said, "I gotta go but my friend can stick around"
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Go down, Miss Moses, there's nothin' you can say
It's just ol' Luke and Luke's waitin' on the Judgment Day
"Well, Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee?"
He said, "Do me a favor, son, won'tcha stay and keep Anna Lee company?"
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Crazy Chester followed me and he caught me in the fog
He said, "I will fix your rack if you'll take Jack, my dog"
I said, "Wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man"
He said, "That's okay, boy, won't you feed him when you can"
Yeah, take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Catch a cannon ball now to take me down the line
My bag is sinkin' low and I do believe it's time
To get back to Miss Fanny, you know she's the only one
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me) | zvQ1kYctxemy7yKt | 106061 | tayzra is a bofoon for that Fanny "interpretation. Lustfrog almost got it right, well, Lustfrog is right, but the words aint sharp! Most of the posters here must be serious prudes or something, to not catch that meanin... The comma placement is misleading:"Take a load off (,) Fanny".. Could be talking to fanny, but"Take a load for free" sounds like he's talking to any John out there. She be givin it up, cause she want's it like that. Just like a Christian to commit a mortal sin, and not have the courtesy to charge for it, and clean up them blisters. "I do believe it's timeTo get back to Miss Fanny, you know she's the only oneWho sent me here with her regards for everyone"I think that hits the nail on the head..OKOKOKOKOKOKOKOK -- that's only one meaning that I have time to understand -- it's the meaning that you get just from listening, without any research required..Hell, I like the Band because they said what they meant for the most part. May offend you up there who may be Jesus freaks.. Just do us all a favor and grow some soul! lyricstudenton April 09, 2005 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' about half past dead
I just need some place where I can lay my head
"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand, "no" was all he said
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
I picked up my bag, I went lookin' for a place to hide
When I saw Carmen and the Devil walkin' side by side
I said, "Hey, Carmen, come on let's go downtown"
She said, "I gotta go but my friend can stick around"
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Go down, Miss Moses, there's nothin' you can say
It's just ol' Luke and Luke's waitin' on the Judgment Day
"Well, Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee?"
He said, "Do me a favor, son, won'tcha stay and keep Anna Lee company?"
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Crazy Chester followed me and he caught me in the fog
He said, "I will fix your rack if you'll take Jack, my dog"
I said, "Wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man"
He said, "That's okay, boy, won't you feed him when you can"
Yeah, take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Catch a cannon ball now to take me down the line
My bag is sinkin' low and I do believe it's time
To get back to Miss Fanny, you know she's the only one
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me) | zvQ1kYctxemy7yKt | 106061 | this song is simply about a hobo trying to make it in the world. said "I will fix your rat if you'll take Jack my dog''I said "Wait a minute Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man''He said "That's okay boy, won't you feed him when you can?'' that verse is just saying that he cant afford to take care of anyone else but himself. implying that he is homeless....and by the way....why would you fix a rat....its raft. and im almost positive its not fanny. its annie. take a load off annie the f in off makes annie sound like fanny....which is dumbFeelinGroovy1803on March 26, 2008 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' about half past dead
I just need some place where I can lay my head
"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand, "no" was all he said
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
I picked up my bag, I went lookin' for a place to hide
When I saw Carmen and the Devil walkin' side by side
I said, "Hey, Carmen, come on let's go downtown"
She said, "I gotta go but my friend can stick around"
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Go down, Miss Moses, there's nothin' you can say
It's just ol' Luke and Luke's waitin' on the Judgment Day
"Well, Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee?"
He said, "Do me a favor, son, won'tcha stay and keep Anna Lee company?"
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Crazy Chester followed me and he caught me in the fog
He said, "I will fix your rack if you'll take Jack, my dog"
I said, "Wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man"
He said, "That's okay, boy, won't you feed him when you can"
Yeah, take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Catch a cannon ball now to take me down the line
My bag is sinkin' low and I do believe it's time
To get back to Miss Fanny, you know she's the only one
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me) | zvQ1kYctxemy7yKt | 106061 | The Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) is commonly known as Fannie Mae. It buys mortgages from banks so that they will have more more money to do things with. It was Founded in 1938 and Chartered by Congress in 1968 - the same year that this album came out. jimmyeagleon June 29, 2009 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' about half past dead
I just need some place where I can lay my head
"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand, "no" was all he said
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
I picked up my bag, I went lookin' for a place to hide
When I saw Carmen and the Devil walkin' side by side
I said, "Hey, Carmen, come on let's go downtown"
She said, "I gotta go but my friend can stick around"
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Go down, Miss Moses, there's nothin' you can say
It's just ol' Luke and Luke's waitin' on the Judgment Day
"Well, Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee?"
He said, "Do me a favor, son, won'tcha stay and keep Anna Lee company?"
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Crazy Chester followed me and he caught me in the fog
He said, "I will fix your rack if you'll take Jack, my dog"
I said, "Wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man"
He said, "That's okay, boy, won't you feed him when you can"
Yeah, take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Catch a cannon ball now to take me down the line
My bag is sinkin' low and I do believe it's time
To get back to Miss Fanny, you know she's the only one
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me) | zvQ1kYctxemy7yKt | 106061 | The song means nothing less than predicaments that befall a weary man apon arriving in Navareth, he only wishes to get back to his love Fanny with out further interference. I am not sure of a any Biblical references, however the weight refers directly to a sequence of overwelming a events brought on by his well intentions. laxwork12on March 01, 2012 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' about half past dead
I just need some place where I can lay my head
"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand, "no" was all he said
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
I picked up my bag, I went lookin' for a place to hide
When I saw Carmen and the Devil walkin' side by side
I said, "Hey, Carmen, come on let's go downtown"
She said, "I gotta go but my friend can stick around"
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Go down, Miss Moses, there's nothin' you can say
It's just ol' Luke and Luke's waitin' on the Judgment Day
"Well, Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee?"
He said, "Do me a favor, son, won'tcha stay and keep Anna Lee company?"
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Crazy Chester followed me and he caught me in the fog
He said, "I will fix your rack if you'll take Jack, my dog"
I said, "Wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man"
He said, "That's okay, boy, won't you feed him when you can"
Yeah, take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Catch a cannon ball now to take me down the line
My bag is sinkin' low and I do believe it's time
To get back to Miss Fanny, you know she's the only one
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me) | zvQ1kYctxemy7yKt | 106061 | Judgement Day. "I pulled into Nazareth" -- Nazareth is where Jesus is from --- Heaven is where Jesus is from...."Feeling about half-passed dead" -- Because he IS half-passed dead, just died and is now in the presence of God"Looking for a place where I can lay my head" -- Looking to Rest in Peace"I said 'Hey Mister!' " -- apparently he DOESN'T know Jesus, the guy from Nazareth because he calls to him as a stranger" 'can you tell me where a man might find a bed?'" -- can you grant me rest? "He just grinned and shook my hand 'No' was all he said!" -- Jesus introduced himself with the bad news... there's no room here for him, realizing he is now in mortal danger, so to speak, he goes looking for a place to hide... It's a really tricky song that has all these connotations in it, and it can certainly mean, but it doesn't have to... I think Robertson weaved in these connotations slyly... the song is about souls on their journey.. .some staying, some going to different destinations....You can get really esoteric and think of Annie as God.. the souls that don't deserve to be reunited are thrown back for another round of life.... to again "get back to Miss Annie" eventually.... maybe by then they will have figured out what it is Miss Annie is all about... I could be full of it and did too much acid... *shrug*TeepDrinkeron May 03, 2010 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' about half past dead
I just need some place where I can lay my head
"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand, "no" was all he said
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
I picked up my bag, I went lookin' for a place to hide
When I saw Carmen and the Devil walkin' side by side
I said, "Hey, Carmen, come on let's go downtown"
She said, "I gotta go but my friend can stick around"
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Go down, Miss Moses, there's nothin' you can say
It's just ol' Luke and Luke's waitin' on the Judgment Day
"Well, Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee?"
He said, "Do me a favor, son, won'tcha stay and keep Anna Lee company?"
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Crazy Chester followed me and he caught me in the fog
He said, "I will fix your rack if you'll take Jack, my dog"
I said, "Wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man"
He said, "That's okay, boy, won't you feed him when you can"
Yeah, take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Catch a cannon ball now to take me down the line
My bag is sinkin' low and I do believe it's time
To get back to Miss Fanny, you know she's the only one
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me) | zvQ1kYctxemy7yKt | 106061 | The song means nothing less than predicaments that befall a weary man apon arriving in Navareth, he only wishes to get back to his love Fanny with out further interference. I am not sure of a any Biblical references, however the weight refers directly to a sequence of overwelming a events brought on by his well intentions. laxwork12on March 01, 2012 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' about half past dead
I just need some place where I can lay my head
"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand, "no" was all he said
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
I picked up my bag, I went lookin' for a place to hide
When I saw Carmen and the Devil walkin' side by side
I said, "Hey, Carmen, come on let's go downtown"
She said, "I gotta go but my friend can stick around"
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Go down, Miss Moses, there's nothin' you can say
It's just ol' Luke and Luke's waitin' on the Judgment Day
"Well, Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee?"
He said, "Do me a favor, son, won'tcha stay and keep Anna Lee company?"
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Crazy Chester followed me and he caught me in the fog
He said, "I will fix your rack if you'll take Jack, my dog"
I said, "Wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man"
He said, "That's okay, boy, won't you feed him when you can"
Yeah, take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Catch a cannon ball now to take me down the line
My bag is sinkin' low and I do believe it's time
To get back to Miss Fanny, you know she's the only one
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me) | zvQ1kYctxemy7yKt | 106061 | I kind of regret reading all of these interpretations before posting my thoughts because my explanation seems kind of lame. I used to think the song was just about some kooky events a weary traveler experienced. But as I got older realized there was a deeper meaning. I came to conclude that the song was about someone denied redemption based on the first verse. That is curious in and of itself because all people can be redeemed based on current Christian theology. So why was the narrator denied? Maybe because it was too late. By that, I mean the rapture was occurring and the faithful were departing the earth: Carmen is with the Devil. He wants to hang out with Carmen, but she can't because she has "to leave." so the Narrator has to decide if he is going to join the Devil's legion on earth. Luke is about to depart, but Annalee (a wife?, daughter?) like the Narrator has to remain. Apparently, Luke, who is concerned about Annalee's fate, asks the Narrator to look out for her. Same thing about Chester who has to leave his dog. So, the Narrator is left to ponder how he will endure the coming Tribulation. He can fight for God, and hopefully, be reunited with Miss Fanny who was evidently someone very close to him that was claimed via the rapture. rossdavidon June 23, 2013 Link1 Reply Log in to replyThere was an error. @rossdavidYeah ... right-O ... how about en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… ... a simple Google search and wikipedia has very clear information and direct quotes from Levon Helm. I'm a Christian as well, but to try and pin a Christian meaning on this song is absurd. |
I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' about half past dead
I just need some place where I can lay my head
"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand, "no" was all he said
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
I picked up my bag, I went lookin' for a place to hide
When I saw Carmen and the Devil walkin' side by side
I said, "Hey, Carmen, come on let's go downtown"
She said, "I gotta go but my friend can stick around"
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Go down, Miss Moses, there's nothin' you can say
It's just ol' Luke and Luke's waitin' on the Judgment Day
"Well, Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee?"
He said, "Do me a favor, son, won'tcha stay and keep Anna Lee company?"
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Crazy Chester followed me and he caught me in the fog
He said, "I will fix your rack if you'll take Jack, my dog"
I said, "Wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man"
He said, "That's okay, boy, won't you feed him when you can"
Yeah, take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Catch a cannon ball now to take me down the line
My bag is sinkin' low and I do believe it's time
To get back to Miss Fanny, you know she's the only one
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me) | zvQ1kYctxemy7yKt | 106061 | SPOILER ALERT! And by that I mean, reading this may spoil your enjoyment of this song. So you may not want to read it. I'm about to leap onto stage with a few dozen people at an awards show this weekend and join in on a big ol' super-jam of this tune, so I came here to get an idea of what people think this song is about. I noticed a severe lack of the "sick and twisted" perspective in the comments, so I'm here to fill the void. I get an entirely different meaning out of it than what I've seen posted. First, it's common for songwriters to mix sex and religion. It can be satisfying to take something sacred and twist it into something vulgar. I did it in one of my songs - specifically, making a biblical reference in my song about girl who suffers (using the term loosely) from sex addiction ("I'm filling a need as you're spilling your seed in the belly of angels" is the lyric). Now, I'm no follower of The Band. I barely know of this group. I don't have a history of hearing the nuances they've made in lyrical changes at different live performances. I haven't been exposed to their interviews. So this is an outsider's point of view. Okay, so let's imagine the writing session with a bunch of 20-something guys writing songs in the heat of the "peace, pot and microdot"-era of rock and roll. But, they were still unable to come right out and write nasty lyrics like Lil Wayne or Two Live Crew. So think: metaphors, metaphors, metaphors. Also, if you wrote a song in the 60s about dirty stuff, you didn't go on The Tonight Show and tell Carson "Well, I'm glad you asked. It's about banging chicks." So instead you made stuff up. "It's about the significance of friendship in hard times" or some crap like that, without revealing what your metaphors truly meant. And that's if you could even remember what you originally intended the lyrics to mean, depending on how totally bent out of your brain you were when you wrote it. So don't rely on interviews for the true meaning. Next, some definitions:Fanny (slang for female genitals)Load (sl |
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
The night city grows
Look and see her eyes, they glow
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
Drinking in the lounge
Following the neon signs
Waiting for a roar
Looking at the mutating skyline
The city is my church (the city is my church)
It wraps me in the sparkling twilight
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark | zvcvQZAigdukItwb | 3530822107858877943 | From the cd booklet:Waiting in the carWaiting for a rideAt night the city growsLook at the horizon glowWaiting in the carWaiting for a ride in the darkDrinking in the lightsFollowing the neon signsWaiting for a wordLooking at the milky skylineThe city is my churchIt wraps me in its blinding twilightWaiting in the carWaiting for a ride in the darkJuanjo25on October 19, 2011 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
The night city grows
Look and see her eyes, they glow
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
Drinking in the lounge
Following the neon signs
Waiting for a roar
Looking at the mutating skyline
The city is my church (the city is my church)
It wraps me in the sparkling twilight
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark | zvcvQZAigdukItwb | 3530822107858877943 | I think that anyone who finds sanctuary in the city at night will know what M83 are trying to get across. There is a way, a feeling. It is peace, melancholy, reflection, joy, despair, nostalgia, anticipation. It is the ultimate time and place to look within yourself, and anything can happen. nickbensonon March 05, 2013 Link1 Reply Log in to replyThere was an error. @nickbensongreat interpretation. |
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
The night city grows
Look and see her eyes, they glow
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
Drinking in the lounge
Following the neon signs
Waiting for a roar
Looking at the mutating skyline
The city is my church (the city is my church)
It wraps me in the sparkling twilight
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
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Waiting for a ride in the dark | zvcvQZAigdukItwb | 3530822107858877943 | i feel as if when he says"the city is my church"he means that he lives by the city; its his way of life. it's probably his escape from reality/life, and he's faithful that it will bring him some sort of peace of mind, as a church would do all the above to someone religious. alltimeblowon December 20, 2011 Link1 Reply Log in to replyThere was an error. @alltimeblowWell I think "the city is my church / It wraps me in its blinding twilight" is a very interesting line. Symbol analysts such as Carl Jung have noted that the city and the church (among other things) are part of what he calls "the mother archetype," and the fact that it "wraps" him backs up this interpretation. He feels a delightful overwhelming feeling toward the city at night; he feels like belonging to it and being protected, as if by his mother ... I really love this song by the way. |
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
The night city grows
Look and see her eyes, they glow
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
Drinking in the lounge
Following the neon signs
Waiting for a roar
Looking at the mutating skyline
The city is my church (the city is my church)
It wraps me in the sparkling twilight
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
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Waiting for the right time
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Waiting for a ride in the dark | zvcvQZAigdukItwb | 3530822107858877943 | Lyric CorrectionThe Trentemoller remix reveals much more: youtube.com/…Here's my take:Waiting in a carWaiting for a ride in the dark. The night city growsLook and see the _______ glowWaiting in a carWaiting for a ride in the darkDrinking in love (or a lounge)Following the neon signsWaiting for a roarLooking at the milky skylineThe city is my churchHe wraps me in a blinding twilightvinnie97on September 28, 2011 Link3 Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. @vinnie97"Look and see a rising glow'? perhaps? mindlessbluron September 29, 2011@vinnie97 @mindlessblur look and see the HORIZON glowalso it's drinking in the LIGHTSalso in the third verse, it's waiting for a WORD and IT wraps me in ITS blinding twilight:-)latteboy50on September 21, 2015Correction: it's definitely "look and see the horizon glow," but after listening a couple more times, i am unsure about the others. I commented what M83 themselves posted, but maybe it was fake. I don't know. Keep up the good work! |
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
The night city grows
Look and see her eyes, they glow
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
Drinking in the lounge
Following the neon signs
Waiting for a roar
Looking at the mutating skyline
The city is my church (the city is my church)
It wraps me in the sparkling twilight
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark | zvcvQZAigdukItwb | 3530822107858877943 | I think the song is talking about night life and how he enjoys it. "Waiting in a carWaiting for a ride in the dark." Probably how he's waiting for it to become night time so he can go to his favorite places. "At night the city growsLook at the horizon glow" How people emerge from where they are to come and enjoy the nightlife, and the horizon glowing is the lights of the city. "Drinking in the lightsFollowing the neon signs" Gazing at the bright lights, reading the signs of each place. "The city is my church" He goes out at night religiously. I don't know, but that's what it seems like to me. Breetasticon December 02, 2011 Link2 Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. @BreetasticI think it is too, and having fun is a wonderful part of life! Good song. pocketfullofposieson February 03, 2012"The city is my church" - could also mean that it's where he has his most "religious" experiences (i.e. uplifting, ecstatic, sweep-you-off-your-feet) or where he goes for contemplation and reflection. |
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
The night city grows
Look and see her eyes, they glow
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
Drinking in the lounge
Following the neon signs
Waiting for a roar
Looking at the mutating skyline
The city is my church (the city is my church)
It wraps me in the sparkling twilight
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
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Waiting for a ride in the dark | zvcvQZAigdukItwb | 3530822107858877943 | I personally think that this is a song about being alone driving in a car at night just thinking about your life and what you can make of it. Kind of like how we zone out driving in a car at nightgabepowerson January 11, 2013 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
The night city grows
Look and see her eyes, they glow
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
Drinking in the lounge
Following the neon signs
Waiting for a roar
Looking at the mutating skyline
The city is my church (the city is my church)
It wraps me in the sparkling twilight
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
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Waiting for a ride in the dark | zvcvQZAigdukItwb | 3530822107858877943 | Lyric Correctionwaiting in the carwaiting for a ride to the clubthe night city grows? waiting in the carwaiting for a ride to the clubdrinking in the loungefollowing the neon signswaiting for a roarlooking at the mutating skylinethe city is my churchit wraps me in the sparkling twilightwaiting in the carwaiting for the right timeobscuraaon August 11, 2011 Link4 Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. @obscuraaI think you've almost got it. The only thing difference i hear is "Waiting for a car, waiting for a ride in the dark" instead of waiting in the car, waiting for a ride to the club. CaseyWildroseon August 13, 2011This one is particularly difficult for me to discern the lyrics. I agree with CaseyWildrose for "Waiting for a car, waiting for a ride in the dark." The thing that I found really helpful though was when you found: "it wraps me in the blinding twilight." Except I heard "it wrapsyou wrapped me in the blinding twilight" instead. What do you think? starshinesMoneton September 19, 2011It's very hard to tell. I went with my first instincts, but I think I could be completely off. I think "waiting for a ride in the dark is more correct. "Club" doesn't seem to fit with any of the lyrics/imagery on M83's albums. |
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
The night city grows
Look and see her eyes, they glow
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
Drinking in the lounge
Following the neon signs
Waiting for a roar
Looking at the mutating skyline
The city is my church (the city is my church)
It wraps me in the sparkling twilight
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
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Waiting for a ride in the dark | zvcvQZAigdukItwb | 3530822107858877943 | This is the actual lyrics for the song.Listen and you will see that this is what Gonzalez is really saying. Waiting in a carWaiting for a ride in the darkThe night city growsLook and see her eyes,they glowWaiting in a carWaiting for a ride in the darkDrinking in the loungeFollowing the neon signsWaiting for a rideLooking at the mutating skylineThe city is my churchIt wraps me in the sparkling twilightWaiting in a carWaiting for a ride in the darkWaiting in a carWaiting for a ride in the dark(x4)PrinceDreyon February 17, 2013 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
The night city grows
Look and see her eyes, they glow
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
Drinking in the lounge
Following the neon signs
Waiting for a roar
Looking at the mutating skyline
The city is my church (the city is my church)
It wraps me in the sparkling twilight
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
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Waiting for a ride in the dark | zvcvQZAigdukItwb | 3530822107858877943 | MemoryThis song gives me such a nostalgic feeling about summer. Especially when I hear it on a summer's night. Not many other songs give me this feeling it is both pleasurable and painful and it is my first true feeling of the "pit" of nostalgia. drew1857on April 28, 2015 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
The night city grows
Look and see her eyes, they glow
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
Drinking in the lounge
Following the neon signs
Waiting for a roar
Looking at the mutating skyline
The city is my church (the city is my church)
It wraps me in the sparkling twilight
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
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Waiting for a ride in the dark | zvcvQZAigdukItwb | 3530822107858877943 | This is what i think he is going on about:Waiting in a carWaiting for a ride in the dark. The night city growsLook and see the rising glowWaiting in a carWaiting for a ride in the darkDrinking in a loungeFollowing the neon signsWaiting for a roarLooking at the milky skylineThe city is my churchHe wraps me in a blinding twilight. mindlessbluron October 16, 2011 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
The night city grows
Look and see her eyes, they glow
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
Drinking in the lounge
Following the neon signs
Waiting for a roar
Looking at the mutating skyline
The city is my church (the city is my church)
It wraps me in the sparkling twilight
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
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Waiting for the right time
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Waiting for a ride in the dark | zvcvQZAigdukItwb | 3530822107858877943 | Am I the only that hears 'Seeing is my church?' ...Yeah? ...Okay, good to know. That's cool. NoelleNapalmon January 15, 2012 Link5 Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. @NoelleNapalmNO YOU ARE NOT. I actually found this page by searching "seeing is my church" on google. Good thing it's not, though, I want that line for myself. lyanportoon June 17, 2012NO YOU ARE NOT. I actually found this page by searching for "seeing is my church" on google. Good thing that's not the actual lyrics, though, I want it for myself. lyanportoon June 17, 2012NO YOU ARE NOT. I actually found this page by searching for "seeing is my church" on google. Good thing that's not the actual lyrics, though, I want it for myself. lyanportoon June 17, 2012NO YOU ARE NOT. I actually found this page by searching for "seeing is my church" on google. Good thing that's not the actual lyrics, though, I want it for myself. lyanportoon June 17, 2012No, I hear that as well. |
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
The night city grows
Look and see her eyes, they glow
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
Drinking in the lounge
Following the neon signs
Waiting for a roar
Looking at the mutating skyline
The city is my church (the city is my church)
It wraps me in the sparkling twilight
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
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Waiting for the right time
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Waiting for the right time
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Waiting for a ride in the dark | zvcvQZAigdukItwb | 3530822107858877943 | I feel like the song is about a junkie in the big city... Waiting in car, waiting for the right time... Drug deals take alot of waiting in cars. The city is my church, it provides him with the things he needs to survive... Drugs, shelter, the places to do seedy scams for money in the night . Waiting for a ride in the dark could be prostetuting for drug money or the rush of the high taking you into darkness.. The song just makes me think of the total street life, struggling to survive and the city is your only true friend. Riding getting high, taking it all inEither way love the song <3Kat26on August 07, 2013 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
The night city grows
Look and see her eyes, they glow
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
Drinking in the lounge
Following the neon signs
Waiting for a roar
Looking at the mutating skyline
The city is my church (the city is my church)
It wraps me in the sparkling twilight
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
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Waiting for a ride in the dark | zvcvQZAigdukItwb | 3530822107858877943 | It is an utterly wonderful piece of music which can be interpreted and resonate with your personal way and that is the reason why it is so beautiful. But if you really care what the creator wants to express, pls remember Anthony G. particularly stressed this album as a record and reflection of himself and his course of making music. As to Midnight City. I think it is rather a reflection on the road of making music. It is not an easy dream to pursuit obviously. So many hardship , frustration but the at same time too much anticipation motivation, and hope from the orgastic future. Give the background at that time he came to LA pursuing his dream The city is the place where he paid too much for this dream to come true. This intimacy with the city he thrives is too strong to him it is too special place to him. Wait is also my favorite. this music lifts my emotion to the highest level of intensity i have ever experienced. Thank you M83. to let that happenarifreeon November 02, 2013 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
The night city grows
Look and see her eyes, they glow
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
Drinking in the lounge
Following the neon signs
Waiting for a roar
Looking at the mutating skyline
The city is my church (the city is my church)
It wraps me in the sparkling twilight
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
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Waiting for the right time
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Waiting for a ride in the dark | zvcvQZAigdukItwb | 3530822107858877943 | Or it's a stalker. In the city. Or, remembering her while alone in the city, and dreaming of waiting for the right time. lyricfreak56on November 28, 2013 Link1 Reply Log in to replyThere was an error. @lyricfreak56@lyricfreak56 I agree that it's about a stalker. One who's waiting for the right moment to take the prey for a ride in his car. The city at night makes for easy hunting. |
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
The night city grows
Look and see her eyes, they glow
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
Drinking in the lounge
Following the neon signs
Waiting for a roar
Looking at the mutating skyline
The city is my church (the city is my church)
It wraps me in the sparkling twilight
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
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Waiting for a ride in the dark | zvcvQZAigdukItwb | 3530822107858877943 | Waitin' in a carWaiting for a rideAt night the city growsLook at the, horizon glowI always tell my loved ones this lyric, i always like explain that life is more about the journey and not about the desination ya know?? ~~m83forlyfeM83forlyfeon February 02, 2014 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
The night city grows
Look and see her eyes, they glow
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
Drinking in the lounge
Following the neon signs
Waiting for a roar
Looking at the mutating skyline
The city is my church (the city is my church)
It wraps me in the sparkling twilight
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
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Waiting for a ride in the dark | zvcvQZAigdukItwb | 3530822107858877943 | Imagine a city on a weeknight - during the day it's filled with business people, and on weekends it's filled with nightlife goers... But on weeknights is the city just an empty void? No, this is when the true spirit of the city comes to life, and it is during this time that Anthony Gonzalez feels most connected to the city; at no other time does the spirit of the city feel so intimate, it seems nearly divine. TomMcCulloughon February 02, 2014 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
The night city grows
Look and see her eyes, they glow
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
Drinking in the lounge
Following the neon signs
Waiting for a roar
Looking at the mutating skyline
The city is my church (the city is my church)
It wraps me in the sparkling twilight
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
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Waiting for a ride in the dark | zvcvQZAigdukItwb | 3530822107858877943 | When I listen to this song, I think about vampyres. Then I saw the movie Let Me In, it made even more sense. The lyrics 'the city is my church' just substitute the word 'pray' for 'prey' and there you have it. I'm probably wrong about this, but I have a WILD imagination and like to get creative about these things. Must be because I'm a Pisces. Hmmmmm ? ArizonaDreameron April 26, 2014 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
The night city grows
Look and see her eyes, they glow
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
Drinking in the lounge
Following the neon signs
Waiting for a roar
Looking at the mutating skyline
The city is my church (the city is my church)
It wraps me in the sparkling twilight
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
Waiting in a car
Waiting for the right time
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Waiting for a ride in the dark | zvcvQZAigdukItwb | 3530822107858877943 | When I listen to this song, I think about vampyres. Then I saw the movie Let Me In, it made even more sense. The lyrics 'the city is my church' just substitute the word 'pray' for 'prey' and there you have it. I'm probably wrong about this, but I have a WILD imagination and like to get creative about these things. Must be because I'm a Pisces. Hmmmmm ? ArizonaDreameron April 26, 2014 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
The night city grows
Look and see her eyes, they glow
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
Drinking in the lounge
Following the neon signs
Waiting for a roar
Looking at the mutating skyline
The city is my church (the city is my church)
It wraps me in the sparkling twilight
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Waiting for the right time
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Waiting for a ride in the dark | zvcvQZAigdukItwb | 3530822107858877943 | I can understand this:Waiting in a carWaiting for a ride in the dark. The night city growsLook and see the horizon glowWaiting in a carWaiting for a ride in the darkDrinking in a loungeFollowing the neon signsWaiting for a roarLooking at the milky skylineThe city is my churchHe wraps me in a blinding twilight. AirWalkeron October 16, 2011 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
The night city grows
Look and see her eyes, they glow
Waiting in a car
Waiting for a ride in the dark
Drinking in the lounge
Following the neon signs
Waiting for a roar
Looking at the mutating skyline
The city is my church (the city is my church)
It wraps me in the sparkling twilight
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Waiting for the right time
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Waiting for a ride in the dark | zvcvQZAigdukItwb | 3530822107858877943 | Waiting in a carWaiting for a ride in the darkThe night city crawlsLook and see her eyes, they glowWaiting in a carWaiting for a ride in the darkDrinking in the loungeFollowing the neon signsWaiting for a roarLooking at the milky skylineThe city is my churchIt wraps me in its blinding twilightWaiting in a carWaiting in a ride in the darkWaiting in a carWaiting for the right timeWaiting in a carWaiting for a ride in the darkBurton8219on November 27, 2011 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | The song is beautiful.The song was written by anthony kiedis after they were working on a bunch of songs for the californication album. One day someone began playing an ultra sparse riff that sounded like nothing they had ever done. The lyrics were about a young mother anthony met at a meeting. She was living with her baby girl, trying to get sober but failing miserably. The beauty and sadness and tragedy and glory all warped into one of this mother daughter relationship. Porcelain refers to the simple beauty yet the fragile situation. "Are you wasting away in your skin"- are you wasting away in your fleshly desires, "are you missing the love of your kin"- because of her addiction she could not fully give herself to her daughter as a mother. "Drifting and floating and fading away"- pretty self explanatory. onewithmusicon May 18, 2009 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | this is my FAVORITE song by rhcp (i dont even know what it means) it always makes me cry. i think its coo that they can write shit like "i wanna party on your pussy" and then bust out a ballad like porcelain. rhcpbekon September 04, 2002 Link1 Reply Log in to replyThere was an error. @rhcpbekRHCP = Red Hot Chili Peppers, of course, use some common sense xDAnd how can you even use that term if you don't know what it means...? |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | This is a song about a parent growing old and losing connection with there child. Very sad if you really look at the lyrics. KrazyKyle15on April 30, 2002 Link1 Reply Log in to replyThere was an error. @KrazyKyle15i think this songs about a pregnant girl whos addicted to heroin, 'drifting and floating and fading away' and how it says 'can you bear not to share with your child' as in like the baby gets addicted too. and are you wasteing away in your skin, heroin addicts tend to literally waste away in their skin. and nodding and melting and fading away... nodding as in nodding out on heroin. i dont know thats what i think of when i hear it. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | It was quite interesting feeling to read Your comments, Your interpreations. I have never seen this site before, so it was novel for me, to read the feelings of strangers about something, that has touched me deeply in the last few days. The other interesting thing I recognized, how different people write about this song, most of You have mentioned souch ideas, I would have never thought of. Everyone writes those event, which exist in ones life and thoughts. How different we are. Now see my interpreatation, please forgive me, it is a bit dark. For me this is about a caricature of life. To abuse the holiness of life. A girl, a porcelain doll, who would like to be like enyone else, just a plain everyday girl. But she is not given that gift. All she has is her skin, she is empty inside, want touch and feel the love of humans, but jus can't fit inthere. She is not like the others, and that love is incomprehensible to her. She aspires for something she can't understand and can' reach. She aspires in her honest childish way. But what she want, that is impossible, so she is wasting her life. Smell like a girl, when you smile. She is trying to be alike, but all she can touch is the surface. Carry the Moon in your womb. This is the part I usually beginn to be is tears, for a woman to have a child is a part of the maning of life. This girl, this doll can never have one. The Moon symolises for me barrenness. Or to give birth something inanimate. It's meaningless. Nothing comes off, everything turnes aside in a strange and odd way, all her attempts are a bit pathetic. And she is fading and melting away without making her dreams some true. Her mission, is not to live a complete and happy life, she is expected just to serve, just to be pretty. And I think many people live in this planet, who are born as normal children, just they shoulderd to become a porcelain doll. I think it is not worth it. Here is a video, that has came in my mind, while listening to this song. I don't think the message is the same, not at all, just the fe |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | Also, porcelain, refers to the doll, and how perfect it looks but is also dead of life, and empty inside. Emptiness with the doll, the moon, the mothers feeling and the baby. All empty of life. DylanLon December 28, 2010 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | Although some think it's about a mother who already has a child, which is what influenced the song. It really is about a girl who is pregnant and struggling with Heroin abuse. "can you bare not to share with your child" ... Share life. "are you wasting away in your skin"..."someone said that you're fading too soon"... the wear of the body from the heroin. A beautiful woman who is addicted to herion and struggling to get clean.. someone who used to be so beautiful and now lost her family and herself and now a child who has had a chance at life... like a porcelain babydoll. But I do like that comment about maybe the woman already had a child and lost it.. or maybe had an abortion and cant forgive herself so she drift and fades and nods away on herion because she feels like she has nothing... I know someone just like that... my ex. so sad. it was our child and i made her have an abortion and now she may never be able to have kids due to endometriosis.. I cry thining about it and wish i wasnt such a selfish piece of shit... a child is truely a gift no matter what stage or part of life your in.. i hate abortions and if we wouldve had that baby... she wouldn't be using herion right now... a part of myself hates myself...but know that it's not my fault for her using ,but as much as I tell myself that i still feel responsiblezima1984on December 30, 2010 Link2 Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. @zima1984In those times you made difficult and rash decisions... I carry bit of baggage that weigh on me like that man. I dont know what its like to be in that situation but music heals me. I know you dont know me but I wish someone would have said this to me maybe i wouldnt be so messed up haha...Help the person youve wronged. Be there if she needs help you know? She'll begin to forgive you and in that you can begin to forgive yourself. The pain of this awful time will never go but its easier to live with. I know you didnt ask for a cy3MusicIsLife3on August 05, 2013In those times you made difficult and rash decisions... |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | This song is about someone who is addicted to sedatives/depressants(probably heroin)"Porcelain, are you wasting away in your skinAre you missing the love of your kinDrifting and floating and fading away"I think that by nick-naming this person porcelain it means how fragile the person really is, they fall and they break,they are wasting away in their own skin because of their use of drugs and how that has affected their way of life,missing love in general,being an addict is very lonely, thats why i think by kin means a human, just a human that loves you honestly. "Porcelain are you wasting away in your skinAre you missing the love of your kinNodding and melting and fading away"Sedative drugs make you nod when taken in excess, and you become so sedated as if you were melting if you are laying down somewhere,you feel how your consciousness is fading away, just as i feel right now. maybe everything im saying doesnt make sense and im projecting onto the song im under the influence of sedatives right now and listening to this song is making me cry, very hard, i was obsessed with this song when i was 12, and hadnt listened to it since thenoh how times have changed. sophie1031on December 20, 2016 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | when im sad..and i wish to b sadder..i listen to this song..because it truly like...lets the tears flow? soda speak... in ne-case..this song is very good, and i think that this is 1 of RHCP's best hits, b/c Under the bridge and all there new stuff hit big too... :-)-Pö£ô-glo151on June 07, 2002 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | This song could be about a misscarriage(i have no idea how to spell it, sorry) I don't know though. Because it says "Are you wasting away in your skin" and also it mentions a womb. The mom would be horribly sad and maybe thats why it says "Can you bear not to share with your child...drifting and floating and fading away." I think this song is sad and deep too. Just my thought. Thanks and luv you all! ~*~Tessa~*~Flychick773on June 12, 2002 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | i don't think it could be about abortion, because if the moon is in her womb, it's a little late to be getting an abortion. maybe it's about teenage pregnancy... her family isn't happy about her getting pregnant (are you missing the love of your kin, someone said that youre fading too soon).. i dunno.. it's a beautiful song. not_blondeon July 04, 2002 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | I agree with KrazyKyle... I think this song is about a parent growing old and their child is "drifting and floating and fading away". I think the part with "little lune" is possibly about a nickname that the parent called their child. They are reminiscing about how they used to see little lune all day. But thats just my opinion... such a beautiful song. TinkyTigeron August 17, 2002 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | this is such a sad song, i can sorta relate to it, the relationship between me and this girl i like.. it makes me feel sad..and rimma go get a life.. if all rhcp songs sound the same and always funky rhcp wouldn't be much of a bandSlukkerzon September 14, 2002 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | i remember when this cd came out and everybody had heard "scar tissue" on the radio a bunch of times, the assholes in high school would buy the album and talk about how much this song sucks, apparently because its not a sex rap. I think it flows beautifully, especially in the context of the album, and the lyrics are truly poetic. it sounds like the teenage pregnancy thing to me. and if it helps anyone, "lune" means moon. ClassClownon June 23, 2003 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | no idea what this song means.....but it is soooo gorgeouswhen i first bought the album... i used to listen to the first coupla songs (otherside.. californication.. scar tissue) etc. then when i played thru the album i heard all those really fast/loudish songs that i didnt like so i never listened to the middle of the album. then one time i put it on random and found this beautiful BEAUTIFUL song. i like it! along with road trippinregan_89on June 28, 2003 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | it actually is just about a pregnant woman and i no this cuz ant sed it himself. gorgeous song. i heard it an was so amazed at how anthony can sing. he went for so many years doin his funky raps and totally rocked, but this fits him perfectly too. redhedrockeron April 25, 2004 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | well i think that u r all right, but i personally thought it had something to do with a troubled anorexic"Are you wasting away in your skin...Drifting and floating and fading away"it is a beautiful song though...i listen to it when i'm going to sleep/relaxing but also when i need a good cry. em_fataleon October 17, 2004 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | This song is beautiful. It has put me to sleep many times, (which is a good thing). Maybe because it reminds me of someone. I think it's just about teenagers losing touch with family. I think we all know how hard life can be at times, songs like this just keep us here. --simply put..., Wonderful. wannabeon November 02, 2004 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | I think it's about a mother who is depressed, faraway, and worn out after years and years of crap from her kids/husband. "Lune" can mean a portion of a moon... but it can also mean a fit of craziness, FYI. geejodibeeon November 25, 2004 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | All songs will have a different meaning to each person. I agree with a lot of what ModestMe said. When I think of the word 'porcelain' in the song, I think it's being thought of as a drug. 'are you wasting away in your skin, are you missing the love of your kin, drifting and floating and fading away' are my favourite lines throughout and I just see it as this drug taking you away, that you're not really there any more 'drifting and floating and fading away' I don't know. it's all up to the listener. Red Hot Chili Peppers touches me in a way that no other band/artist/singer can. They have music for words that can't be said or felt. know what I mean? minaminaon January 07, 2005 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | In "Scar Tissue" Kiedis' autobiography he says: "Around that time, I had met a young mother at a meeting. She was living in a YWCA with her baby girl, trying to get sober but failing miserably. the beauty and sadness and tragedy and glory, all wrapped into one, of this mother/daughter relationship was evoked by the vibe of that music." So guess thats where the lyrics came from. It is such a good song though. My friend told me it was about committing suicide though... he's from the "funk-rock-with-a-fast-crazy-beat-only" school of Chili fans.... eg. doesn't appreciate the beauty of this song. rainbow:-)on January 27, 2005 Link2 Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. @rainbow:-)I'm glad someone else has read this amazing book. I was actually wondering about these lyrics days before I got to that part, and it cleared it all up... Anyway, yes, this song is about a young mother struggling to stay sober. It's a beautiful song, one of my favorites. HannahSavageon March 12, 2009You can also just read Wikipedia, hehe. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | this could all be untrue....but i see a slighty different meaning in the song. When i think of porcelain, i see a perfect little china doll sitting on a shelf and i think this song refers to, maybe,this daughter who has always been her parents perfect little "porcelain doll" but now as she is growing to be a part of our western society, she is growing farther and farther apart and fighting more frequently with her once adored parents ("Are you missing the love of your kin)". and now she has become a teenager, totally unconnected with her previously spirited and individual self. She is changing herself to be part of the in crowd to the point where she has lost her individuality, and no longer doing things to please herself, but please others (gowiththeflowon March 24, 2005 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | ^i think part of my post got cut off...so to continueand no longer doing things to please herself, but please others (Drifting and floating and fading away)...maybe floating away from her true self. And when he says: do you smell like a girl when you smile, i think that is referring to how in our western society, girls are expected to be overly femine and girly and "kitchen-bound" and smart to the point where we dont challenge the male gender and still keep our "damsel in distress" archetype...wow kinda digressed there, but take all of this with a grain of salt, I'm not trying to sound overly feministic, its just how i see the songcould be total crap but yea thats what i seegowiththeflowon March 24, 2005 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | It had the recurring theme of moon. I first heard this song and was like, "Omg, someone died?" I have a thing for death songs. Of course, it may not be that. Since the it has the recurring theme of the moon, it possibly could be anything that makes you think of the moon. It's pure, innocent. A child! :O So yes, I agree with the first post. I think it's most definitely that or... the teen pregnancy issue. Dance With Me Loison April 03, 2005 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | I agree with the drugs and pregnancy theory, but I think it could be things other than drugs. not eating healthy, anorexia, and other unhealthy things for your soon to be born child. I bleieve that "do you carry the moon in your womb?" means something like the child losing it's life... not dying, but just losing an opportunity to live in a healthy and good way for a child. and the "Little lune, all day" means the situation that the child is in... it's like the moon itself. missing the love of your kin may refer to a single pregnant mom life... she's got no strong support to get any better. I think that's all I have for an input now... perhaps more later if I can figure out the rest. FLeaBaSS1915on May 14, 2005 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | I don`t know what this song is about,but every time I hear it it reminds me on Kurt Cobain(Are you wasting away in your skin,drifting and floating and fading away,can you bear not to share with your child,someone said that you`re fading too soon...).It kinda make scence to memojo risinon August 13, 2005 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | I think you guys are right but when I hear it I think of someone with pale albino skin like mine because of how it says "porcelain" and references to the moon. "Are you wasting away in your skin" being the person is depressed and doesn't like how they look. "Do you carry the moon in your womb" being like will her child be as pale. The part about missing the love of your kin meaning she is distant in mind from family. And the drifting and fading away meaning being utterly depressed. But I'm weird anyway lol. LilKittenon October 02, 2005 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | it is a good song, but it kinda ruins it if its about a miscarriage. i just find it a bit wierd for men to be singing about miscarriages not the most joyous topic of a song. FIGHT_LIKE_A_BRAVEon December 29, 2005 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | on a sunny day in the summer, i was invited over to swim in my neighbour's pool. i had the song stuck in my head from hours of listening to it, as i had just gotten the californication album. the song was going over and over in my head when underwater, and i thought of how cool that would be for a music video: and i was watching my neighbour's kids underwater (they're 8 and 4), and with the sun shining through the light blue of the water and the beams of light, and the pale skin of the kids, anbd everything was going in slow motion, i thought it was really cool and kinda went with the song. and you could make it ironic by thinking maybe the young one died or drowned... even though it's a sad song i thought it fitted it well...speedofdarkon February 01, 2006 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | i love the calmness of this song among some of the manic songs in californication, its like a moment to catch your breath back. very ballad and very touching. rainbow:-) knows what they are talking aboutmikey4444on August 04, 2006 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | this song was written about a young mother that antony keidis met while he was attending NA and AA meetings and trying to get clean. she was doing her best to get sober as well and failing miserably. the sadness and pain that are evoked my this song are meant to reflect the tragedy of the relationship between this young mother and her child. personaly, i thikn it is one of the chilipeppers most beautiful song. i looove itchelseaknowson August 26, 2006 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | I thought this song was him trying to comfort a female friend, but not knowing why she's upset... That explains all the questions. But these miscarriage theories make a lot of sense. Chernabogon September 15, 2006 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | This is what i thought when i first heard the song,porcelain refers to a porcelain doll.So a perfect person,that is almost like a doll perfect,no emotions.And she's just doing nothing with life,are you wasting away in you skin.And shes not very close to anyone,her kin(family),or maybe child or something.She's just drifting farther in to this perfect little doll kind of life,Drifting and floating and fading away. alot like gowiththeflows ideaAntsmarching419on September 16, 2006 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | This song is sooo dull i alway skip it...im a hardcore Chilis Fan so dont have a go because i dont like it. it shouldnt have been on the album. it doesnt capture the spirit created by the album. should have been a B-side if anything. rosscmooreon October 16, 2006 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | Rosscmoore, that's merely your opinion, and not a fact. I disagree completely with you. To me, it's a great song, with a deep meaning. If you can't appreciate then too bad for you. algunmaeon November 05, 2006 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | i love the chili peppers, i love the album, but this song is pretty boring. and it is about a mom with her baby. to understand most of his lyrics you need to read his autobiographyflearoxon November 05, 2006 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | This song is about a girl suffering from anorexia. She is porcelain because she has to put on a smile for everyone around her... she acts like a perfect little porcelain doll and no one can see her pain... also a synonym for Lune is "concave" ...she is missing the love of her family and she is just drifting and floating through life suffering from ana. katiekat247on December 27, 2006 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | My boyfriend says this song reminds him of me because when he met me I was very depressed or 'wating away in my skin" and never feel like my family appreciates or loves me "are you missing the love of your kin" and when we talk about having kids I always talk about how I'm going to do things different from my parents "can you bear not to share with your child". So to me it's about a deeply depressed woman, but that's just what it means to me. This is one of my favorite songs and I love RHCPlightupmylife115on February 17, 2007 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | To me there are multipull meanings to porcelain, I agree with the possibillity of a misscarrage but at the same time cetain parts make me agree with the idea that she was a trophy daughter and most likely an only child and was put out in the world with no knowllege and didn't know were to go or how to act. I think that this is a beatiful song, and to me every single song on Californication deserves to be there Anthony Kedis's lyrics are brilliant and I'll leave it at that. XoxoVicki13on April 10, 2007 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | In scar tissue, anthony tells exactly who the song is about and what it means, so check it out if you haven't already. i like this song, it's slow, and sweet, it doesn't sound like anything else on the album, i agree with nemo92, this song seems to be about abortion. mrs.sideikon April 27, 2007 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | I really don't understand why many RHCP fans don't like this song. I really love it. I see how it could be about an anorexic girl, but I really think it is about a miscarriage. Since the menstrual cycle is about a month long, and the phases of the moon are a month long, it makes sense saying "do you carry the moon in your womb" right next to "some one says that you're fading to soon"RachelIsFreckledon April 29, 2007 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | looks like my entry got cut off. well here's the rest:"porcelain" is a metaphor for a fetus or embryo- i don't know the difference. since an unborn child is so fragile, they are like porcelain. i don't think its necessarily about an abortion because in an abortion they cut the umbilical cord and remove the embryo from the mother's uterus. the song instead seems to describe something fading and wasting away. RachelIsFreckledon May 03, 2007 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | okay this is completly different from all of the other meanings but I've always seen this song talking about a girl who's really fragile like a porcelain doll and she's gone through so much pain and stuff even though she's so young that she just starts cutting herself off from everything and not like kill herself or anything but like just has no emotion anymore so she's fading away and that God has her the moon is his womb because she's his child and the girl is drifting from God too because she has no emotion anymore that was long but it's what I think of itporcelaindoll333on June 12, 2007 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | I think the people that dislike this song really don't understand how life WORKS. Living involves crazy, silly moments as well as serious, reflective ones. This song is serious and most definitely sad, and I think doesn't necessarily mean one thing. It could be about an addict or an abortion, or both. especiallyon July 11, 2007 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | I read "Scar Tissue" and in it Anthony explains about how this song is about a pregnant girl he met at a rehab meeting who was trying but kept failing to get clean so the baby would be born healthy. "Around that time, I had met a young mother at a meeting. She was living in a YWCA with her baby girl, trying to get sober but failing miserably. the beauty and sadness and tragedy and glory, all wrapped into one, of this mother/daughter relationship was evoked by the vibe of that music." rollcall-nickyon July 29, 2007 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | i think this is about how you see someone you wish to seek romantic envolvement with, but cant. "are you wasting away in your skin" - i think that means this persons beauty is being wasted on someone thats not you. crackaddicton March 27, 2008 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | Personally, whenever I hear this song, my mind plays quite a different scene. First off, I hear Little Loon, not Lune... I know a loon isn't exactly a swan, but bear with me for a moment... To me, this song is about a white swan who has lost her mate. According to popular belief, swans are monogamous birds who keep a single mate forever. If the birds are split up, they are unhappy until they die. This poor swan in the song is wasting away, drifting, floating, and fading away, waiting for death. Sure, she may carry a moon in her womb (an egg or more) but she's still unhappy. In fact, Anthony asks: DO YOU SMILE LIKE A GIRL WHEN YOU SMILE? Yes, it's smile both times... This main character neither smiles nor is she a girl... She's a poor little lune, wasting away, waiting for death, but still so pretty and graceful...That's my interpretation. Take it or leave it, no matter. sweetfatality7on April 10, 2008 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | I always thought it was about a woman on drugs that he met at the salvation army when he was going to get clean and she had a child that she had to give up to he parents because of her addiction..is that right? Lovetoyouon June 12, 2008 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | I tuned into this song when I got caught doing drugs and felt almost alientated by my family but really wanted to be near them. I do think it has to do with a child and family relationship. The words "little lune" suggests little moon (lunar, luna, etc.) which she carries hence: "moon in her womb." The refrain "little lune, all day" seems to be a burdening refrain in the character's actual life. It also seems to express her solitude. neenzon July 16, 2008 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | yo so loon and lune are pronounced the same way sweetfatality7 and neenz your taking it a lil bit to seriously mah dudepersonally i think its about possibly a pregnant girl who is living but not quite alive if tht made any sense. untill this afternoon when my girl friend made me shut off the tunes saying tht the song was too sad i had never actually listened to the lyrics, leading me to believe it was actually a romantic song. Which is strange since ive been listening to this song since it first came outjaphyryderon July 18, 2008 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | It's so pretty. One of my fav rhcp songs, because of the fact that it's so gentle. Yeah, they can rock, but the fact that they can write songs like this too...is awesome. As to meaning? Hmm... there's the whole alcoholic mum he met in rehab thing, aye. But like... iuno, I've always thought of it as like... a girl who's had a baby, and then got post-natal depression. So she's like... disconnected from "the love of her kin" and "can't bear to share with her child" and is wasting away from the despair she's experiencing. It's so sad, but really really pretty at the same time. And the fact that it sounds like a lullabie sorta ties in with the whole mother-child thing, aye... But, y'know, this is just my interpretation...garedelyonon September 13, 2008 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | This song is about a young mother Anthony met in rehab who is struggling to stay sober. I read it in his book. I can understand where it could sound like an abortion, or miscarriage, but nope... Or, even what neenz said. I take refuge in this song when I feel alone, or want to be alone. When I feel alienated. Yeah... Good stuff. HannahSavageon March 12, 2009 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | for some reason i got the impression that this song hides something more. when i first heard it I thought that he says "poor slim" so i thought its about Hillel Slovak. . . then I read the lyrics and honestly, porcelain doesn’t make sense, if you read it like POOR SLIM it really sounds like he is singing to Hillel “Are you wasting away in your skin”-we all know his problem with the drugs and how he died, so its like, are you getting even worst? “Drifting and floating and fading away” he was slowly dying and going away. “Can you bear not to share with your child” can you bear not to have a child at all? I know that many of you probably will not agree with me :) but I like to think that he is singing to Hillel, I don’t know y…deedeeBGon May 11, 2009 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | First off, this song is so beautiful. It just is. It may be a bit slow to some people, but I like it the way it is. Okay, off with how I envision this. Well I see this as basically a mother old and wrinkled and soon is going to face death. And she was not being able to love her child properly because when she was younger, she thought that just giving birth and living with the child was showing enough love. However she was proved wrong. When she sees other families smiling happily together, she realizes and she smiles slightly at the sight but a bit sad for not being able to give that same happiness to her child. Now that child she raised is gone. When it mentions "Drifting and floating and fading away" it means she's very very close to death at this point. So, she leaves the world regretting, waiting for the child to come by once more to see her so she can apologize to it for not being able to love it properly like she should have. Yeahhh...that's just how I see it. KakyokuAmayaon May 14, 2009 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | I think this song is about Anthony Kiedis and his mother. He may be reflecting on his drug addiction which alienated him from her.. The song definitely has a lonely and regretful feeling to it. It has sort of a reminiscent kind of tone with the I think flanger guitar.. gives it kind of a retro feel, makes me think of a man thinking back to his youth with cloudy, happy memories with his mom. CharcoalAndGreyon May 23, 2009 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | This song reminds me of my fiancee'. It's really sad, she lost a set of our twins, and she's never been the same. She is wasting away in her skin, she never smiles, she cries all the time, I don't know what to do. DrHenryon June 10, 2009 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | I def think there are some drug undertones in this song, particulary towards the end. In the last verse, instead of"Drifting and floating and fading away"It turns into"Nodding and Melting and fading away"which sounds like heroin abuse to me. It seems as if the person is unable to cope with her dillema (pregnacy/miscarraige?) and turns towards drugs. nerkal3on October 13, 2009 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | this song is a very catchy, beautiful song. The Red Hot Chilli Peppers are known for making music that appeals to most people. I believe the song is about a woman who has a child already, and may or may not be pregnant. Little Lune is def a nickname for her child...luna means moon...so that might be a connection to something when Anthony says do you carry the moon in your womb. Also, the mother of this child is tired, and misses her child, and her lover. She doesn't want to grow old, and is in a way envious of her child's youth because of the lyrical line that states "can you bear not to share with your child." It's sad. but i do like this song a lot...phishing27on October 24, 2009 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | The song is beautiful.The song was written by anthony kiedis after they were working on a bunch of songs for the californication album. One day someone began playing an ultra sparse riff that sounded like nothing they had ever done. The lyrics were about a young mother anthony met at a meeting. She was living with her baby girl, trying to get sober but failing miserably. The beauty and sadness and tragedy and glory all warped into one of this mother daughter relationship. Porcelain refers to the simple beauty yet the fragile situation. "Are you wasting away in your skin"- are you wasting away in your fleshly desires, "are you missing the love of your kin"- because of her addiction she could not fully give herself to her daughter as a mother. "Drifting and floating and fading away"- pretty self explanatory. onewithmusicon May 18, 2009 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | The song makes a fairly obvious reference to pregnancy, so theories about miscarriage, an abortion, or teenage pregnancy seem on the right track. It could be referring to something else, like cervical cancer, for example, but the reference to "your child" seems to secure the interpretation of the line as a reference to pregnancy. "Do you carry the moon in your womb?" This is one of richest lines of poetry I know of, and its figurative language seems to have a great deal of implications. The first thing that comes to my mind is the greatness of the moon, which would seem to imply that the pregnancy is a great weight on the subject of the song. Then again, "the moon" calls a number of other images to mind--it represents the softness and tranquility of the night, or perhaps something spiritual, for example. This makes me think the song is, as has been suggested, about a woman wondering whether or not to have an abortion. A "lune" is anything crescent-shaped, and thus probably refers back to this one line. In fact, I think the entire body of lyrics rests upon this one line, and any interpretation of the song must come back to it and all of its implications. AndyGhoston August 23, 2009 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | I feel like I can't say anything that hasn't been said already, but John Frusciante is one of the best harmony singers in the universe. So gorgeous and unique. Perfectly complementary to an already beautiful melody. And i love how slow the bass and drums are. I want to listen to this song trippin. Goot song. Julietsonon October 29, 2009 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | "Little luneAll day" - I think "Little lune" means "little moon" and it refers to the mother. "All day" refers to her desolation and the moon is usually up at night but, because the child has distanced herself from the mother, the mother feels this desolation all day. singlebarrel94on July 04, 2010 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | Very depressing song. I believe it's either about a miscarriage or an abortion. The child is lifeless, yet still in the mother's womb, wasting away in it's skin. Does the life of the child come out of the woman when she smiles. Forever drifting, floating and fading away. "Do you carry the Moon in your womb? ", this refers to the emptiness of the moon, just like the moon the baby once had life in/on it. DylanLon December 28, 2010 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | tha singer wrote this song after seeing a pregnant junkie wit her little girl at tha abortion clinic. he alternates serenading tha child and then tha junkie. "Are you wasting away in your skinAre you missing the love of your kin, drifting and floating, and fading away." That's to tha girl sympathizing that she's losing her mother. karlwitak93on April 08, 2011 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | Everyone should read "Scar Tissue". AK talks about this briefly in the aforementioned book. He meets a pregnant young woman who is living at a YMCA while trying to kick her heroin habit (and failing). He wrote this about her. meghanfruon March 24, 2012 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | I think it's got something to do with the idea of not wanting to do anything any more, not wanting to care, not wanting to become anything when you grow older. You don't give a damn about anyone any more, not even your own child, and you don't give a damn if you let yourself go. It's a really good song; I've been into this band since I was really young! neondemonon July 15, 2012 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | I'm not about blanket statements as far as lyrics go. No one is inside the artists head. I write a bit and when I do its more about feeling then the actual story. The vibe I get from the song is drifting from reality, in an almost blissful numbness. Past the point of caring for pain even though you feel it, but you don't care. 3MusicIsLife3on August 05, 2013 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | I think, it's important to look at who wrote the song, and the way he chose to word it and change it so slightly each verse. I would say that this song is about a mother losing the connection to a child because she is an addict. Are you slowing wasting away in your skin is a good indication but the part that really sinks this in for me is "nodding and melting and fading away" the fact he saved this for the last stanza indicates it's importance, and nodding is a commonly used word in the world of addiction. It's a beautifully painted picture of what addiction can do to a mother and ultimately her family, just looking at it in a new light, from the perspective of someone who understands how big the struggle is to stay clean, and to focus on what matters, like your child. betweenthelinezon February 03, 2014 Link1 Reply Log in to replyThere was an error. @betweenthelinez@betweenthelinez I truly like your interpretation, and if you read mine, I feel that ours are very similar. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | I am a "recovering/recovered" heroin addict like the lead singer of RHCP. To me, this song is about someone "wasting away" on heroin.....and "nodding" out. "Nodding and melting and fading away..."I have been in many institutions and have realized that drugs truly don't discriminate......many of the people were there so they wouldn't lose their kids. But to me, this song speaks about how drugs do not discriminate..."are you missing the love of your kin" this line to me means, are you so f*cked up on drugs that you can't even take care of your children, or that you don't even care about your family......etc...SeptembersGoldon March 30, 2015 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | When I first heard this song many years ago I didn't like it, it just didn't fitbwith overall vibe... But I heard it recently and found it moving. It's easy to find yourself connected to the lyrics, if you know anyone in dire situation, financial, addiction, chronic sickness... There's this movie "Still Alice" about a woman with early onset Alzheimer, thos lyrics fit perfectly. Song is sad but soothing. WildFoxon July 12, 2016 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | I used to think it was about a young depressed girl who was really pretty but was being ravaged by depression. But as i read the comments and the lyrics more i realized it was about drug addiction. I just also thought it was incredible that i found this song and its true meaning because my mom died at 26 from an overdose when i was 5 years old. So to me, this is about drug addiction. Because this is exactly what happened to my mom and i. The drug took her away from my brother and i. So yeah...Jordyn Davissson October 09, 2018 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Do you smell like a girl when you smile
Can you bear not to share with your child
Drifting and floating and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Porcelain
Do you carry the moon in your womb
Someone said that you're fading too soon
Drifting and floating and fading away
Porcelain
Are you wasting away in your skin
Are you missing the love of your kin
Nodding and melting and fading away
Little lune
All day
Little lune
Little lune
All day
Little lune. | zvzSJfjlW4xlZINo | 1378 | I agree with almost every comment and I know the story it was bassed off of and also the porcelain doll being beautiful outside but deaf of life on the inside is honestly a beautiful metaphor whether or not it was originally intended or not but I also wanted to add as a recovering addict I would get loaded and listen to this song and one thing that would always stand out to me was that for me and many others one of the best surfaces to snort my pills off of would be porcelain because it didn't get in any grooves and you didn't end up wasting any I dont know it just added another detention to the song for meGuitarSadBoion September 03, 2019 LinkNo Replies Log in to replyThere was an error. |
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