You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it aint no good
You shouldnt let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a siamese cat
Aint it hard when you discover that
He really wasnt where its at
After he took from you everything he could steal.
I think that the first 4 lines of this verse are creating a metaphor for the characters drug use. Specifically how she did not see what was wrong with her drug use. I compare the "frowns on the jugglers and the clowns" faces to represent the false happiness that drugs provide. I get this comparison from the idea that drugs cause a person to look and feel happy from the outside, but on the inside offer no significant happiness. Just as a clown could appear to be happy on his mask but under it on the inside he could be frowning and unhappy. Showing how the character in the song never bothered to look inside herself to see if she was truly happy from her drugs use.
The next three lines follow this same idea of drugs providing false happiness. The line "you never understood that it aint no good" shows how the character did not see what was wrong with her situation at the time. While the line "You shouldnt let other people get your kicks for you" once again represents this idea that you should not let drugs provide your happiness, or "kicks".
The meaning I come up with for the next two lines is that they are describing her distorted view of happiness. How drugs made her feel as though she where on a "chrome horse" or with a "Diplomat", above everyone else.
Then the last two lines go back to her fall. The line "He really was'nt where its at" describes how the drugs where not the right decision. But she can only see this after the fact when it is already to late and drugs have taken from her everything that she has. As the line "After he took from you everything he could steal" describes.
3 comments:
I'm confused with the last line, what was stolen?
That's interesting Aris I never really thought about it like that. I think it's pretty cool how you got that out of the verse.
I always thought it was about how the main character always had everything, everyone did everything for them. Entertaining, buying them things etc.and she thought they loved her. but now that she's on her own she's starting to realize that they weren't as happy as they appeared to be serving her. and now she is a sad clown..or somthing..shit nevermind i dunno.
Kevin makes a good point about the "top layer" of the lyrics and the story that is readily apparent opposed to the deeper drug using references. The "she had it all" take on the lyrics is undoubtedly a counter argument for this post.
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