Blues Image: Ride Captain Ride Meaning
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Ride Captain Ride Lyrics
Rolled off of their ship, and here's what they had to say
"We're callin' everyone to ride along to another shore
We can laugh our lives away and be free once more"
But no one heard them...
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#1 top rated interpretation:This is no interpretation it is just some facts I have been a friend of Mike Pinera for over forty years, as well as other Blues Image members. I see Mike daily and play with him in a new group. All I will address here is the drug culture comment and the Pueblo comment. The song had NOTHING to do with drugs or drug culture, nor the pueblo, the song was written and released BEFORE the Pueblo incident (which was top secret) was even released. As to the guy saying Mike is no Keith Richards you are right,HE IS SO FAR SUPERIOR TO RICHARDS AND MOST PLAYERS WORKING TODAY. If you have ever heard Mike play this should be obvious.
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#2 top rated interpretation:Everyone of y'all are reading way to much into this song.lol.. people do this all the time. I'm a musician, and I can promise you that there are very few songs that are historically researched. And the guy talking about all the drug use in the first "translation" is a jackass. He must be an aspiring psychiatrist. This song has nothing to do with drug use. It has nothing to do with drake. The only correct answer is the one given by the writer and artist. The song was written in story in a matter of minutes pretty much ad-libbed. The way most hits are written. And like most hits, there are always conspiracy theorists.haha... its a great song. Just enjoy it.
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#3 top rated interpretation:I'm not that interested in what the author was thinking when he wrote the song.
But what I like about the song is that it's a great metaphor for our own life. Each of us is the captain of our own ship, and we can be amazed at the friends we'll meet on our trip (of life), the worlds that we might discover, etc. as long as we're not too busy focusing on unimportant details (like the raindrops falling).
Or maybe the song is the mystery ship that takes us away from our everyday cares? -
This is one of my favorite songs from my childhood , I believe the message is your life is what you make of it. Everyone is thrown rocks and detours during the ride , but where you land is how you react to them.
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Trips is the only one who is correct about The Merry Pranksters' bus trip to New York, where they invited everyone they met to join them. Obviously it is not about anything military, saying laugh your lives away and be free. Amazing how no one is familiar with the cultural history of the '60's and comes up with ludicrous, obscure interpretations. Ken Kesey was a great writer and a leader then. But "Closer to Home" is also about Ulysses from the Odyssey voyage.
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Those of us who served in Vietnam believed, proba bly incorrectly, that this song was about the first group of advisors sent to Vietnam.
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Many song writers don't bother giving interpretations of their songs. It creates mystery, which works great for sells.
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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It's a song about the north Korea freeing are ships . common sense will tell you that if you know music.and if you know what went on back in the day.of (1968)lison good and go back to 1968
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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It sounds like they were being offered a trip to another, extra-terrestial, world.
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The words and the song itself have a life of their own. Like a lot of things that are grabbed from the "other space" of life ( kind of like what I just said ) they breathe and move with their own meaning which is derived from a mosaic of thoughts that might have been in the writer's head at the time it was written. But , if you have to find a meaning that you can nail down: they sailed "in" to the bay and they are calling others to ride with them to another shore where they can be free and laugh once more. ..... So basically , tell your mind to shut up and take the trip .
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