[koolthing78]

Hmmm, I think Pink Steam is about a guy who got with this lady who has a kid, and he wants to "do" his nubile young step-daughter. To me it seems like one of their least lyrically abstract songs, if you think about it that way. "Just come by to run you over" --step parents are always having to do kid switch-offs. "I'm the one who loves your mother" --pretty obvious. And all those references to "wild hearts" and "pink steam," all sorts of connotations of wild, youthful innocence. But that's what I love about this song (and a lot of other songs on the album): they are poetic and SEEM lyrically abstract, unless you analyze them on a different level (ie: I *was* on drugs when I had most of these realizations), in which case they make total sense. But WITHOUT being lyrically bland or overly obvious. They accomplished a great balance between the abstract and ordinary on this album. So to me, I thought this was a great drug album, though I didn't really think there were that many actual lyrical references to drugs. It had more to do with changing your perspective.