System of a Down: Sugar Meaning
Song Released: 1998
Sugar Lyrics
Sitting around all day,
Who can believe you,
Who can believe you,
Let your mother pray, (sugar)
(sugar)
I’m not there all the time you know
Some people, some people, some people,
Call it insane, yeah they...
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The Kombucha mushroom people are people who drink kombucha tea. "who can believe you" Refers to the unbelivable and amazing effects of kombucha tea. Many people belive it can cure cancer, turn your grey or white hair dark again. It suposidly helps with weight losss, ect. ect. Who can possibly believe all this?
Let your mother pray. This lyric refers to the Kombucha mother or the mother culture. This is the "Kombucha mushroom" that makes the tea. This "mushroom" can multiply possibly forever is given the right conditions. What the kombucha cultures needs to grow is SUGAR. Yes, sugar. The culture is placed in a jar with tea and sugar and can continue to produce kombucha "babies".
Thats what i know about the kombucha mushroom people. I am not quite sure about the rest. -
The song is about how we are constantly lied to by the media. Hence the beginning of the music video.
However, now that I think about it, the very first
explanation seems to fit the lyrics very well.
Before you argue it, think. Listen to the song again. Then read back over the original interpretation. -
All wrong! this is about the government sugar coating everything and no one knows the real truth
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Kambucha refers to the Kambucha mushroom, which some people believe to have the cure for AIDS. The Kumbucha mushroom people, as in, not the people of the mushrooms, but the people researching it. They're 'sitting around all day' due to a lack of funding from a conservative government.
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Wow, these interps are crap. I am amazed at some of the fantasies we spin, myself included, when we know nothing of what we're talking about and yet continue to explain it to ourselves like we do. No, this song is not about drugs. Yes, it is about the media sugar-coating issues like human-sensitivity to aspartame. Yes, the newscasters are the "kombucha mushroom people". The images and lyrics about people's sudden reactions are the result of what happens when you lie to people and yet deep down they realize that they are being lied to. Eventually, they flip out. That's it. Don't over complicate the shit.
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If aspartame (aka Nutrasweet) did everything that the conspiracy nuts claim it does, there would be tens of millions of people dying from brain tumors, etc, directly linkable to the chemical. There is a medically known and validated condition that makes certain people biologically sensitive to the class of chemicals that aspartame falls under, but that considition is rare. 99% of the rest of what you hear about "the dangers of aspartame" is complete BS.
As for the song, it would be interesting to see what the guys who actually wrote it have to say. That's always the best source for the meanings of songs, novels, etc, but all too often the writers are not forthcoming.
I've always thought it was about some kind of drug use. -
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The song is about the song aspartame which in many studies has been located to severe homicidal outbursts and mood swings. This is why he says some times my girl just lashes out and I just fucking kick then o baby she's ok it means that the drugs have taken over his body. When she says that you need to get off the drugs he hits her and she doesn't want to be hit again so she is all right about him doing drugs.
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I think...
Well yeast is a natural occurrence in our bodies. An overgrowth of yeast, can proliferate as a yeast infection. This is not just the yeast infection most people think of (girl's issue) but a yeast infection of the whole body. You crave SUGAR, you crave white flour, you crave the things that feed the yeast. It makes you crazy in your mind, it makes you feel angry, and frustrated, foggy and depressed, it takes you over and all you want to do is KILL EVERYONE until they're GONE FOREVER...
but the Kombucha Mushroom, or Kombucha culture, can restore the yeast in your body to a healthy level, when everything else fails - but who would tell us this?? The FDA does not approve, and even Warns people, against the use of Kombucha. When really, Kombucha could be a cure... Kombucha could make us stop this CRAVING for sugar, for sugar sugar sugar...
When you understand the disease, and it's ravishes it can have on the body, you know what Kombucha is, you know how it can help you, and you cannot get it, because it is Not Approved... you search it out, find it through someone who can help you get Medicine... Seeking trade with someone, someone who has a proliferating Kombucha SCOBY, it's regenerating... They can give you freely when it grows but if you can't get it because it's not approved...
We need government change, government to stop hiding these things or refusing to test these things. Stop them from regulating poisons like refined sugars and refined flours, making those the "cheap" and "easily available" because they call these things safe... they call anti-biotics safe... anti-biotics are what kill the natural flora, allowing the yeast to take over... pro-biotics are what restore your natural flora, rendering the yeast back to a healthy, harmless level.
BALANCE -
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I have an interpretation about that last part were it says "I sit. In my desalte room...etc" well I believe that part may be about drug use and how it may ruin lives like the person at the end is only and has nothing (no lights no music...I've killed everyone) that's just what I see in it.
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Sako's is the gun brand that sold the guns to the kids that commited columbine.
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I know the drugs thing has been established but the part
"how do I feel, what do I say, f@#k you it all goes away"
i think this means, I don't care it feels good so I'm gonna keep doing it as long as "it" is gone. -
The song is about the goverment; the mushroom people are the goverment doing nothing while we are hooked on sugar and if you watch closelly in the song aspertame kills popes up with a picture of a pie. aspertame has special affects that fuck with your mind and he is saying the goverment is doing jackshit about aspertame spreading and making people psycho because they don't give a rat's ass. The part about the gun is the aspertame makes him psycho and he buys one and goes on a rampage and sitting in a room with nothing iis because the aspertam makes him kill everyone and he is in denial hence the whole she is ok part and once the affects wears off he realizes what he has done hence the what do I od what do I say in the end it all goes away he mean the affects run out.
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i think that this is mainly aimed at ASPARTINE and how it causes mental deficiencies. Also I think it's about drugs such as crystal meth.
the "russian roulette" is the not knowing whether the drug will kill him and the "bullet called life" is the high he gets from takin it
mushroom people are the doctors who lock up the people like him in mental institute and then do nothing "sitting around all day" Kumbocho mushroom is an ingredient used for medical research
let your mother pray = the hardship of the situation for the mother
he gets a gun and bashes his girlfriend because he's paranoid and the people who want to eat his brains are the police arresting him for his offence
then he gets thrown in solitairy for killing his girlfriend I believe and left with his madness
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