What do you think Glycerine means?

Bush: Glycerine Meaning

Album cover for Glycerine album cover

Song Released: 1995


Glycerine Lyrics

Must be your skin that I'm sinkin in
Must be for real cause now I can feel
and I didn't mind
it's not my kind
not my time to wonder why
everything's gone white
and everything's grey
now your here now you away
I don't want this
remember...

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  1. anonymous
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     Sep 18th 2008 !⃝

    The word Glycerin means a liquid that has no color or odor, but a slightly sweet taste. So the contradicting terms like "I'm never alone, I'm alone all the time" "Everything's gone white, now everything's grey" Now your here now your away" may mean he doesn't know much about her, she's clear, has no scent to trace which traditionally is a way to find out about organic substances. All he knows about her is she tastes sweet like "couldnt love you more youve got a beautiful taste."

    I too think that is is a bi-polar, abusive relationship. He plays the head games and she lashes out in frustration as in "I treated you bad, you bruise my face." just my interpretation though.

  2. anonymous
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     Jul 4th 2007 !⃝

    First off, I love the song! The first time I heard it I bought Sixteen Stones and listened to Glycerine over and over. . .
    Anyway. . . Although used in many things, explosives and soap are chief among the uses of Glycerin (Anyone seen FIGHT CLUB?). When I thought about this I thought that it could show the duality of love. Sometimes it destroy and sometimes it cleans. It can kill us and save us at the same time (Soap saves lives?). Some of the lyrics seem to hold hope for love or the relationship in question, others seem to show the pain and suffering of the particular relationship.

  3. anonymous
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     Feb 22nd 2007 !⃝

    He's talking about capitalism and the fact that its hard to let go of being a materialist. Don't let the days go by means that you should be out working everyday following the american ideal. He loves the taste of what materialism and the american dream are before he realizes what he's been doing. Its his realization of capitalism and its all encompassing hold that it has on society. He feels alone around everyone. I mean come on we live in a wheel where everyone steals and when we rise its like strawberry fields. He's talking about a big red communist uprising against the sick cyclical system that abuses the masses.

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  4. anonymous
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     Nov 20th 2006 !⃝

    Bush is famous for its surreal lyrics. This term simply means that the lyrics do not necessarily make any sense, they just capture a certain feeling. Musical equivalent of abstract art. Take "bad moon wine again" Don't even bother turning this phrase upside-down looking for a meaning, your endeavor will prove fruitless. The phrase sounds good, and it motivated by feeling, not reason.

    There is a correlation, most likely, between some of the rough phrases in the song, and what the song's intended subject was in Gaven's mind, if there was one. This is due to the style in which surreal lyrics are written, through free associative writing; in other words, random phrases that simply "appear" in ones thoughts. The first thoughts that come to your head, writted down, then = free associative writing.

  5. anonymous
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     Apr 24th 2006 !⃝

    The abuse refered to in the song is emotional abuse dealt by the writer and physical abuse by the girl. There is regret for the past mistreatment and also a standoffish tone in some parts of the song. Glycerin is derived through fermentation of alcohols, and so it fits this song. While the relationships gets older there are some sweet memories consumed by many more bitter ones. This song is very depressing, I love it! - H.C.Smith

  6. MrE
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     Dec 24th 2005 !⃝

    Glycerine or Glycerin has thousands of uses but interestingly enough it is considered one of the best ways to preserve flowers. Flowers preserved with glycerine are very supple and last a long time.
    Don't let the days go by.....Glycerine

  7. MrPizzazz702
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     Nov 16th 2005 !⃝

    To me it sounds like the writer was in an abusive relationship, from both sides. He regrets his abusiveness and wishes he could withdrawal it from time, because he really loved her and misses the times they've shared.

  8. username
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     Jul 10th 2005 !⃝

    Gavin Rossdale wrote this one about his ex-girlfriend Jasmine Lewis. It can also be perceved as a day in the life of a manic depresant.

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