Footprints on My Ceiling

[bombsaway]

I dont't know about you guy's, but i feel like i got foot steps on my ceiling. I don't know if its over between me and my girl. She hasn't called my in while now and every time i call her, she dosn't return my calls. she must be really pissed at me. God, i'm such a little bitch when it comes to love.

[BroncoSteve]

Originally posted by wark:
maybe that time in his life when his girl cheated on him and his whole world was upside down....footprints on my ceiling?

<font size="2" face="verdana, arial">Good call.

[A Real Musician]

Originally posted by wark:
maybe that time in his life when his girl cheated on him and his whole world was upside down....footprints on my ceiling?

<font size="2" face="verdana, arial">Maybe not neccasarily when his girl cheated, but it does make sense that everything is upside down/ not the way it should be. Didn't Ness describe it as being about a crossroads in life?

[BroncoSteve]

Same here. It's one of my favorite songs of theirs, but of the three versions I've heard (live in 2001, DVD, and new record), the one from the DVD is my favorite. But that's not a complaint; I like having the choice.

[ShellyCrash]

I take it as when someone's gone, you're crawling the walls, everywhere you look is a memory.

I did like the original lyrics better though.. not much of a change- but I prefer "run my fingers through her hair" etc.

[lostheart]

Hmmm...I've heard the term before and I always thought that it has to do with someone on the verge of losing his sanity!?!
How's that?

[pitman]

thought it had to do with when someone leaves or walks out of your life....

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[wolfpits]

shelly,

i think mike changed that line because it sounded too much like hootie's line - run my fingers through her dyed hair - from "let her cry"

dont ask me why i would even know that.

steve

[michaelm]

I could be off the mark here, but my impression in listening to the song was that he wrote it to be a jazz/blues vocalist tribute:

Mississippi Heat covered a song called ?Footprints on the Ceiling,? which had previously been recorded by Ruby Andrews.

One review of Etta James? song ?Blue Gardenia? mentioned the song is a duet James sang with her mother, who sang her part how Billie Holiday would have done it.

Again, I could be off the mark, but that was my overall impression.

[ShellyCrash]

Originally posted by wolfpits:
shelly,

i think mike changed that line because it sounded too much like hootie's line - run my fingers through her dyed hair - from "let her cry"

dont ask me why i would even know that.

steve

<font size="2" face="verdana, arial">That's too bad- because I really hate hootie, and to think hootie would have an influence on social distortion makes me feel a little ill.

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