Tighten Up Your Wig
Unveiling Truth: Tighten Up Your Wig's Prophetic Message
Lyrics
What can you see with your ear on the ground
Encourages a different perspective; suggests being attentive to surroundings.
Try to lift up your feet, girl, and take a look around
Advises the listener to lift themselves up and gain a broader perspective.
Let me see your eyes girl
Requests to see the person's eyes, indicating a desire for sincerity and openness.
We've got to make them big
Emphasizes the need to broaden one's vision or understanding.
If you'd like to see the truth
Suggests that to perceive the truth, one must have open and observant eyes.
I'd better tighten up your wig
Metaphorically speaks about enhancing understanding or awareness, symbolized by tightening up a wig.
Your mind is too narrow, and it's no surprise
Criticizes a narrow-minded mindset, expressing it as no surprise.
If you fell on a pin, well, you'd be blind in both eyes
Uses a humorous scenario to illustrate the limitations of a narrow mind.
Oh, let me see your head, girl, we've got to make it big
Requests to see the head, suggesting the need for expanded thinking.
Until your ears come apart,
Continues the metaphor, implying the need for an open mind until ears metaphorically "come apart."
I better tighten up your wig
Reiterates the idea of enhancing understanding or awareness, symbolized by tightening up a wig.
Watch out for the lunch bunch, they'll try bring you down
Warns against negative influences (lunch bunch) that can bring one down.
Don't get hung up in the shower, baby, you might drown
Advises against getting overly involved in trivial matters, using drowning in the shower as a metaphor.
Oh yeah, oh, your head looks kinda big
Comments on the appearance of the person's head, possibly linking it to their mindset.
Before I loose you mind, girl,
Warns about losing one's mind and suggests the need for mental tightening.
I better tighten up your wig
Reiterates the idea of enhancing understanding or awareness, symbolized by tightening up a wig.
Just before we go, I'd like to mention Junior Wells
Mentions Junior Wells, possibly referencing a blues musician and acknowledging influence.
We stole his thing from him, and he from someone else
Indicates a history of borrowing musical elements, acknowledging the interconnected nature of artistic creation.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he plays the blues like few before
Praises Junior Wells' blues playing ability.
May he play forevermore
Expresses a wish for Junior Wells to continue playing blues indefinitely.
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