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By Pages:   1    2    3    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Low (page 1/ 3) ------ performed by Cracker It's a comparison | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/29/09 "I'll be with you girl Like being low hey hey hey like being stoned I'll be with you girl Like being low hey hey hey like being stoned." I think that he is comparing his girl to drugs in this verse. He MIGHT be saying that being with her is like being on "some kind of substance." He might be saying that being with her feels as good as being stoned?? Online Pills | Reviewer: Gigi | 5/7/09 Hi guys. There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. I am from Bulgaria and now teach English, please tell me right I wrote the following sentence: "Official airline guide, books, pda tools for travelers." Thanks for the help 8), Gigi. Yes and No | Reviewer: Stevo Darkly | 3/27/09 Justin's interpretation is brilliant. I don't think it's quite correct, though. Knowledgeable people who have experienced heroin addiction seem to be unanimous that the song describes what that addiction feels like. However, I don't think the song is *about* heroin -- it is about a girl, and he is comparing his love for the girl with the feeling of addiction. The key verse is "A million poppies gonna make me sleep ... Just one rose, it knows your name." The "poppies" is a reference both to heroin and to the scene in Wizard of Oz where Dorothy and her friends fall asleep, which almost leads to the end of their journey and their doom. The narrator knows his heroin addiction is bad for him. He knows his love for the girl-- "the rose" -- while similar, is much better. And he has to act on this knowledge quickly and choose love over drug addiction, because the "fruit" of their love, which is calling to him, is in danger of going bad soon. At the same time, he also sometimes has a perverse desire to introduce the girl to heroin herself, to corrupt her like himself. (Reviewer "I've got it" says he felt a somewhat similar feeling when he was addicted.) Sometimes the narrator wants to "take her down." This is also a sexual reference, of course, but lyrics can have a double meaning. (And "Let the river flow" = ejaculate, but also to inject from a needle.) If he idealizes the girl, he may see having sex with her as "corrupting" her in a similar, bad but pleasurable way. "Blue is the sun ... brown is the sky ... green is her eyes." He does idealize her to some extent, because everything else (the sun, the sky) seems duller and less bright than it really is, compared to her brilliance (her lovely green eyes). He knows that if he succeeds in corrupting and addicting the girl, it will be a great downfall for her ... like the downfall of a disgraced, drug-addicted cosmonaut, falling down a million miles from space to below the feet of everyone else. The same way he feels when high/low on heroin. In short, he loves her like heroin. But he is torn. He wants to choose her love and give up his addition, elevating himself to be worthy of her. But at the same time, he feels an opposing desire to keep the addiction and corrupt her, to drag her down to his level. This is really a combo of you other folks' ideas, but I think this one covers all the bases. Even if... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/19/09 Love the song by the way love love love but even if it's about drugs (i really think it is but lol what do I know) There are many many many ads on this page alone if that all the lyric pages for this song on rehabs and self-help books on how to quit drug use. so no matter what you post next someone out there is noticing that people are going to this song lyric page and are discussing drugs. it's a magnet for it and there are advertising on this page because they know taht is the kinds of people submitting. think about it lol Justin's interpretaion makes sense! | Reviewer: Miguel | 2/9/09 Justin, your inerpretation is awesome and you back it up. After reading it I see the song from a whole different perspective. The lyrics do use the word "like" a lot ("Like being stoned"). Anyone who has ever taken english 101 knows that like is a metaphor; a comparison, but not the actual thing. If the song is about using drugs then it makes no sense why he is using a meataphor for something that is actually happening. A simile is more appropriate for this. "I brush your hair back from your eyes" may refer to the clarity the woman will have if she goes down and, as Justin states, "doesn't fight the current." One must also remember that Tom Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance" is often confused as some kind of metaphor for drug use. However, many have argued that the song actually refers to the act of necrophilia. Crafty songwriters veil the true meaning of their songs by using trite and cliche themes that confuse the reader. How well a writer does this distinguishes him/her from being just average or mediocre. I have a new appreciation for this song. OPIATES | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/8/09 Yeah, this song is definately about drugs, you are definately nieve and sheltered if you think otherwise. Stoned is the word he uses, stoned refers to the high you get from opiates, as does low. it is most definately contrasting the way his two addictions are similiar Song Opinion | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/14/08 I think this song is both about a girl and drugs and how he finds comparisons in the both. Also contrasting himself from the girl because he is taking drugs and the girl is not. I also think the song is made in a way were many people can form thier own opinions about the song. Very good song. opiates. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/24/08 i've been and opiate addict and i know many as well. I agree with a previous post. when i didn't have any opiates, no matter what form, i was depressed to the point of suicide and being around my then girlfriend was as much of a drag as withdrawl. also, if you listen, it is "stoned" as he does pronounce the 'd'. If you don't think this song is about drugs then you're nieve and probably haven't been addicted. most likely drugs... | Reviewer: Paxvox | 11/22/08 Funny how so many people think this is a Tom Petty song! I've been a long-time opiate addict (clean for 23 months now, thank God!) and I DO believe this song to be an obvious reference to the dregs of an opiate low and the writer's comparison to the way his girl makes him feel. HHHHHHHHHHH | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/19/08 This song is so about the low from Heroin. The reference to the poppies. Like some disgraced cosmonaut. The shame of being powerless to your addiction. I really dig the song I hope it hasn't led anyone to experiment with heroin. So many good people have died from their heroin addiction or basically just had a shitty life. Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3