The Black Crowes Songs - High Head Blues Lyrics

The Black Crowes - High Head Blues

The Black Crowes - High Head Blues Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Amorica
Released: 1994

High Head Blues Lyrics

Sometimes I have a ghetto in my mind
Other times sunshine high head fine
In between I get cold, old mean
Intertwined with country pride open and kind

This draws a line
Sorry to coin a phrase
On either side is wisdom and rage
So keeping track of time
Racing with my age
Sleeping with the snakes
Forget that you showed up late
It ain't worth it baby

[Chorus:]
A charmed life it is
At least they tell you so
I got a good idea
It ain't like they say is so
And if it is then let me go
Let me go

Any day there might be hell to pay
But in other ways
It makes it seem OK
I'll tell you what I mean
It's not a plot nor a scheme
It's just peace in my mind
Again can I use the word kind
I ain't sorry about it baby

[Chorus]

Writer/s: CHRIS ROBINSON, CHRISTOPHER MARK ROBINSON, RICH ROBINSON, RICH S. ROBINSON
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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High Head Blues

A Latin-tinged track from the third Black Crowes album, this song refers to being sober and the need to get high: "In between I get cold, old, and mean."

The band had a love affair with marijuana around this time: they were featured on the cover of High Times magazine in 1992, and played the Atlanta Pot Festival.

At the end of the song, the Spanish after the solo translates into "This is the best weed."

French filmmaker Michel Gondry, who directed Björk's debut "Human Behaviour" clip a year earlier, helmed the music video that has a tiny flying saucer landing in frontman Chris Robinson's house so he can become the subject of alien experiments.