What do you think Beans for Breakfast means?

Johnny Cash - Beans for Breakfast Meaning

Tagged:   No tags, suggest one.
Album cover for Beans for Breakfast album cover

Beans for Breakfast Lyrics

I couldn't hear you for the TV, I didn't know you said goodbye
I saw your cancelled check for the airfare, didn't know flyin' got too high
Beans for breakfast once again, hard to eat 'em from the can.

I've run out of clean utensils, I'm a hungry...

  1. anonymous
    click a star to vote
    Nov 29th 2022 !⃝

    The song is a metaphor for Johnny's pill addiction. His woman in the song left him because he's an addict.

  2. anonymous
    click a star to vote
    Aug 9th 2011 !⃝

    Yo his bitch done left his lonesome sorry ass. Tha nigga caint cook so he b eat'n beans from a can yo.


More Johnny Cash songs »


 


 


Submit Your Interpretation

[ want a different song? ]




Just Posted

Like the Rain anonymous
If Today Was Your Last Day anonymous
Yellow anonymous
Songbird anonymous
Songbird anonymous
Crown Of Thorns anonymous
Take It Out On Me anonymous
We Don't Live Here No More anonymous
Diamonds and Rust anonymous
Chandelier anonymous
Heathens anonymous
Songbird anonymous
Above The Clouds anonymous
The Way Life's Meant to Be anonymous
Your Song anonymous

(We won't give out your email)