Mockingbird

Stuff means different things to different folks. War vets have been known to say "You don't know, man, you weren't there." Everyone says that too, don't they? How many times have you heard, "You had to be there, really"?

If you've been through something, it really means something to you. You have deep thoughts, views and opinions of it, and sensitive feelings

If not, you treat it like a child does, irreverently, like a lighthearted joke or game. You don't take it seriously, coz you don't really know what it is. You haven't experienced it, or spent much time thinking of it

Parrots don't know what they're saying when they say "Polly wanna cracker." They don't know what the words mean, they are just copying the sounds without thinking

Yet when you give them the cracker, it don't stop them greedily gobbling it up and enjoying every morsel, does it?

So you could say the parrot knows what it's saying because it enjoyed the cracker. But in reality, it would've enjoyed the cracker just the same, whether it said those specific words or not

That's very much like me. If I sing an Eminem song while I'm eating dinner, it doesn't mean the two actions are related. I love my dinner, and I love shouting out whatever happens to be floating round my mind

If the song I sing is about robbery and murder, does that mean I want to do those things? No. Do I have to have done those things before to enjoy singing about them? No. Do I have to be thinking of those things while I'm singing? No

Don't most people, half the time, sing songs without thinking what the words mean? You just sing it coz it sounds good, right? Coz the tune and the words are relaxing

Well, that's what I'm like, but not just with songs, it's anything I read or hear, from a mag, the telly or someone's lips

Even if singing a rap song makes me feel great, and I combine it with snacks and booze, which I also love, it still don't mean I'm planning to rob snack shops

There's nothing more than that to half the stuff I say. What I say and what I mean can be two very different things