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Through four albums, the creative core behind Cracker remains unchanged: Lowery (ex-Camper Van Beethoven) sings lead on most songs and plays rhythm guitar; Johnny Hickman plays lead guitar and sings lead and background. Both men write the songs, sometimes together, sometimes individually. Debut single "The Good Life" introduces Gentleman's Blues: its 16 tracks include some loud songs ("Seven Days," "The World Is Mine," "Waiting For You Girl," "Wild One"), quiet songs ("Hallelujah," "James River," the title track "Gentleman's Blues"), haunting songs ("Star," "Lullabye," "James River"), as well as some strange songs ("James River" again, "I Want Out Of The Circus," "Trials & Tribulations"). Come to think of it, just about all of the songs combine those four elem More... (Submit New Cracker Lyrics) (Submit New Cracker Lyrics) Review about Cracker It's a comparison | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Low performed by Cracker "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 ------ About the song Low performed by Cracker 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 ------ About the song Low performed by Cracker 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 ------ About the song Low performed by Cracker 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 ------ About the song Low performed by Cracker 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 ------ About the song Low performed by Cracker 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 ------ About the song Low performed by Cracker 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 ------ About the song Low performed by Cracker 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 ------ About the song Low performed by Cracker 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 ------ About the song Low performed by Cracker 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. It is about a girl. | Reviewer: Justin ------ About the song Low performed by Cracker I refuse to believe that this song is about drug use, so I've derived another meaning from it. Firstly, the third line in the chorus isn't "like being stoned," it is, "like being stone." In general I would say this song is about a man of low social class wanting to be with a woman of high social class, such as a high ranking business woman. He is essentially telling her that she can better appreciate the nature of existence if she were with him. "I take you down let the river flow" means that she shouldn't fight the current of their love, and let go of her high social class to be with him, but once she is with him her reputation will follow and subsequently there will be no turning back. "Behind the green sheet of glass" refers to the man in a city of greed, where the only things that physically separates him and high reputation people are buildings and their windows. "A million poppies" obviously refers to heroin or other opiate, but isn't what he truly desire: the woman. "Just one rose it knows your name" refers to the woman, possibly the only one who matters to the man or the only one who cares about him. "The fruit is rusting on the vine" refers to their relationship needing progression, as the way it is going the man needs more; perhaps more commitment or even marriage. It is so obvious that it can be "heard from the trees." "Go down like some junkie cosmonaut" essentially signifies the loss of the woman's reputation as an important person such as a cosmonaut might lose for turning into a drug junkie. "A million miles below their feet" is a metaphor for the social distance between her position in the social structure and his. "Blue blue is the sun, brown brown is the sky, green green are her eyes" is an oxymoron. The sun isn't supposed to be blue, the sky isn't supposed to be brown, and her eyes are not supposed to be green. In other words she shouldn't have to be driven by the need for money because he can give her more important things. There are only two drug references in this whole song. "A million poppies" referring to opiate use so that he can pass the time that he is not with her. "Junkie cosmonaut" is used as an analogy to the potential reputation loss. Like Being Low | Reviewer: Lazario ------ About the song Low performed by Cracker The song sounds like it could be alluding to a number of drugs but I have no doubt that it is about heroin, or some type of opiate derivative. "Like being low," if you have ever been on a strong opiate you know exactly what that feels like. If you haven't, that's probably good, but think of the movie Trainspotting where the main character ODs and sinks into the carpet. They did a great job depicting something non-visual in a visual way. It doesnt take ODing on H for it to feel that way. I think "Low" is a love song basically saying that some girl makes him feel as good as the best feeling on earth that he knows. ...dont abuse drugs... This is what it's about | Reviewer: I've got it ------ About the song Low performed by Cracker It's not about a girl. When the song says, "I'll be with you girl" it's saying, I'll be in the embrace of heroin... the girl. It's about a heroin addict, and the desire to give a loved one a glimpse into the psyche of the addict, "sometimes, I want to take you down..." so that they might understand... I'm a recovering addict, and when I was in my addiction, I, at times, wanted to introduce the drug to those who criticized me, so they'd understand me better. I know that's completely f'd up, but that's how things work sometimes. I never did it because I knew it was bad enough I had the problem, but I couldn't live with introducing it to someone else... This is what it's about | Reviewer: I've got it ------ About the song Low performed by Cracker It's not about a girl. When the song says, "I'll be with you girl" it's saying, I'll be in the embrace of heroin... the girl. It's about a heroin addict, and the desire to give a loved one a glimpse into the psyche of the addict, "sometimes, I want to take you down..." so that they might understand... Battling Addictions | Reviewer: me ------ About the song Low performed by Cracker I considered that perhaps the lyrics imply that this guy is comparing and contrasting his two loves/addictions--this girl and drugs. Both are very complex attachments and within each lies the potential for self-destruction. I think the lyrics seem to reflect the very real conflict of people that ruin their relationships because of their substance abuse. With the first few lines of the song it seems like he's calling out to her, wishing that he could "take her low," make her understand that the feeling that he gets from his drugs are just as vital as the feelings he gets with her; how these feelings are one in the same, and yet at odds with each other. Very cool song. david lowery's lyrics. | Reviewer: mike ------ About the song Low performed by Cracker The song was written solely about a guy who is addicted to opium (or any of its derivitaves, including heroine, oxycodone, hydrocodone, etc. it makes very little difference, when youre addicted they all feel the same), and who is also in love with a girl at the same time. He compares the feeling he gets from the girl to the feeling he gets from the opiate. "sometimes i go and walk the street, behind a green sheet of glass" has nothing to do with marijuana or acid or meth. Sometimes when youre high on heroine you have the sudden energy to go for a walk through the streets, but you view everything else in a different way. as if youre different from everyone. the green glass separates you from everyone. David Lowery deliberately wrote the song so the people who have been addicted to opiates and in love with a girl at the same time know exactly what its about when they hear it. (me) In fact, I dont think the lyrics are very loose or open to your own translations at all. It was written with conviction and it was written well in the parlence of our times. But it also wasnt written for everybody. Some people understand it and some people dont and the only difference is that some people have been through opiate addiction and some havent. Death and Misery in a Jingle | Reviewer: JumpyJack ------ About the song Lonesome Johnny Blues performed by Cracker This is truly one of the greatest country/rock songs in existence. Hickman is so underrated it's a travesty. A million poppies gonna make me sleep | Reviewer: Cookie_Juran ------ About the song Low performed by Cracker Yes for sure a positve song about opium and all its derivatives. Listen to Neil Young's "The Needle and the Damage Done" to hear the other not so positive side to opium. i fucking love josh | Reviewer: denise ------ About the song Low performed by Cracker ok i agree with that tripping shit. im pretty positive that the song was meant to have a "happy vibe" like about doing drugs :) making you feel great :) one of the best songs :D About the song Low performed by Cracker | Reviewer: Crisco ------ About the song Low performed by Cracker this song has nothing to do with a girl... the "girl" is a loaded seringe (spelling?) of heroin. song is about pushing that heroin out and getting "low" or, all ripped as we call it You could review the artist/band Cracker in Biography page You could review Cracker album by visiting Albums page and selecting an album You could review Cracker song by clicking the song which you like  Download "Cracker" Music | |
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