Rob from Cleveland, OhIn Kurt Cobain's suicide letter, he used the lyric "its better to burn out than to fade away.".Kevin from Ottawa, On"Out of the blue and into the black" was a Vietnam War-era phrase that originally referred to jumping out of the daylight into the darkness of a Vietcong tunnel, and was later generalized to refer to various situations, including death.Mac from San Jose, CaI've heard somewhere that the Johnny Rotten bit was actually in reference to Sid Vicious.Eddie Vedder even gave Neil's his induction speech at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when he was inducted. Pearl Jam, for example, freely admitted that Neil was a huge inspiration, and the band performed with him numerous times in the 90s (including a rollicking version of "Rockin' in the Free World" that they played together on the MTV Music Awards in the early 90s). Ken from Philadelphia, PaNeil Young has long been called the "Godfather of Grunge" thanks to this song (and, in fact, all of the electric songs on "Rust Never Sleeps").The spirit of the body rising out of the blue atmosphere of Earth and passing into the blackness of space. Daviddevo from EarthI've always imagined 'out of the blue, and into the black' as being a metaphor for death.Hopper thought this movie would play to punk in the 1980's, not grunge in the 1990's. Matt from SyracuseThis song was written for Dennis Hopper's 1980 movie Out Of The Blue and plays off a teenage girl's confusion over a drunk dad, the death of Elvis, and both the exit of Johnny Rotten and the death of Sid Vicious.Brian from VegasIs that the Johnny commenting on this song?.Probably death, but they were all on heroin. Heroin or death, in some instances they are the same thing. Jaysin801 from SlcBlack could very much be heroin. When your out of the blue into the black is the same as - Taking things too far, and that thin red line that once you cross the line you don't come back from it, its metaphorical for all the singers and musicians that have died, or nearly died or lived tortured lives due to the scene, living the glamour rock(I would say not just confined to rock) style, even Alice Cooper had similar irony in his songs addressing similar issues and Nicky Sixx with Sixx AM addressed the similar ideas in "The Heroine Diaries" Album of his particular hard fall crossing the line Young described with Motley Crue. Nocturnal101 from Us"Out of the Blue and into the black" people commenting are taking the thoughts meaning way too hard and pulling out more than what it means. He feels like an old friend with a heart of gold.
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