Adas 2008-05-10 08:40:04    

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First of all, I don't think Maynard would go so personal with the Pot, actually the title itself is about "The pot calling the kettle black", that's what Adam said ^^ Anyway, it's not like Hooker in a Penis, criticizing the critics of Maynard. It's more a general thing, attacking the law. Note, that a lot of drug smuggling cases in the US, are penalized really high (50 years without a parole option). Most of them are kangaroo, everyone knows what's the verdict before the trial begins. And that's why the jurors are hanged, because if they don't agree to vote "guilty" in a kangaroo case, they will also be caught. Of course, this might also apply for other cases.

And the punchline is, after the lawyers got so much attention, probably got rich and things like that, they also start doing drugs.

I hope this one might help :P Cheers ^^

anonymous 2008-05-25 05:33:21    

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The song is about Bush and about the Bush administration's policies, I think Maynard is basically criticizing how Bush and his miscreants are handling the prolonged and plaguing issues in our country, be they terrorism, the economy or whatever. At the same time MJK is making fun of Bush when he says "difficult to dance around this one before you pull it out...Boy" he's suggesting that our "fearless leader" is just a scared helpless boy who doesn't know what the hell he's doing. Now when he says that its difficult to dance around him, I see that as a sexual reference...


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Yea....Clinton was much better. Wake up and smell your own friggin coffee. They all fuck us. You elect them and they knock us down. Screw Bush...Screw Clinton...Screw the Newbie. Its a cycle. Jump on board.

anonymous 2008-06-26 21:15:40    

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My interpretation of this song is that so many people tell other people that they are doing something wrong when in truth they could be just as worse..

Who are you to wave your finger
you musta been out your head
eye balls deep in muddy waters
you practilly raise the dead

rob the grave to snow the cradle
and burn the evidence down
soap box house full of cards and glass
so don't go tossin your stones all out

this song to me is not so much about drug use, but rather than all of the hypocrites in the world telling people not do something wrong when they do the same thing to a worse extent, like don't smoke weed, when they smoke four times as much as anybody else (the weed thing was the first thing I took from the song)

hoodshoes 2008-07-13 22:41:19    

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I believe the song is about Hurricane Katrina and how Bush just swept it under the rug. "pissed all over my black kettle" I actually thought he said "pissed all over my black ghetto".

"eye hole deep in muddy water, you practically raised the dead" could be talking about the flooding that went on.

I can break it down more, but you can see for yourself and make your own interpretation

anonymous 2008-07-31 07:29:43    

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I think this song completely is about pot...but not concerning itself with pot, just about the controversy surrounding it.

1. kangaroo courts. we've figured this one out. kangaroo courts were made to prove people guilty without evidence, usually on ganja-related cases.

2. weeping shades of indigo shed without a reason. well if you melt red white and blue together it makes indigo. So I'm thinking this refers to how the government has raised the war on drugs for no reason whatesoever.

3. The song might be about the pot calling the kettle black, but in that sense, I think it refers to how the government has outlawed most psychedelics, depressants, hallucinogenics, etc., but trades tons of the stuff illegally each year and still gives people a criminal record if they're caught with two night's worth of weed on them.
see? it's like the pot and the kettle, but it's also quite literally referring to weed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_drug_trafficking