Ween - Blue Balloon Lyrics






As she bounces through the blue sky
Everybody's building up a big blue balloon
They made the string from fairy wings and golden dreams
See how high it goes
No one knows about the blue balloon
She's defied the eyes of all man
Sliding over and down the big blue balloon
Can the father's love reach the child above the clouds
So as to dance the day up high
Way up high, above the blue balloon
Blue, blue balloon
My soul calls to you
See her bounce along the banks of Buckinow
She's a sweet surprise and odd why accepting all
Beating along the paths, boulder caps and icicles
She melts into the earth and blows the air back to the central
Blue balloon
Blue, blue balloon
My soul calls to you
Blue balloon





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  1. S.... K....

    Ween kicks ass......

  2. S.... ....

    driving fast, late at night, with your homies, feelin' grood.

  3. G.... M....

    This whole album is one of their best. Stoned, this one cracks me up.

  4. S.... H....

    I don't trust those who dislike Ween.

    S.... H....

    Ah, so there are actually 3 types of people in our world...

    1. Those who know Ween is the greatest band EVER,

    2. Those who have not yet realized that Ween is the greatest band ever,

    3. Those who are not to be trusted

  5. J.... ....

    poopoo in ur booboo

  6. f.... s....

    highest song ever written

  7. B.... B....

    Used to sit with a half gallon of Jack and other select subsatces and me and my homie would listen to this shit all night! Miss those days...

    B.... B....

    That's freakin' awesome dudemang, however do not let that distract from the fact that Al Bundy once scored... aw hell, you know the rest 😂🤣😁😎

    B.... B....

    @Jon Banjankri lmao Polk High! i'm from the same city as Ed O'Neill. it's atrocious that people around here don't get that joke/reference..

  8. G.... .....

    Goo song

  9. L.... A....

    As she bounces through the blue sky

    Everybody's building up a big blue balloon

    They made the string from fairy wings and golden dreams

    See how high it goes

    No one knows about the blue balloon

    She's defied the eyes of all man

    Sliding over and down the big blue balloon

    Can the father's love reach the child above the clouds

    So as to dance the day up high

    Way up high, above the blue balloon

    Blue, blue balloon

    My soul calls to you

    See her bounce along the banks of Buckinow

    She's a sweet surprise and odd why accepting all

    Beating along the paths, boulder caps and icicles

    She melts into the earth and blows the air back to the central

    Blue balloon

    Blue, blue balloon

    My soul calls to you

    Blue balloon

    L.... A....

    The banks of Bacchanal, methinks.

  10. D.... G....

    ...i like :)

  11. k.... b....

    I'm so glad I went to hardly strictly bluegrass festival this year to see ween.I love this band.

  12. M.... L....

    Fuckin love the bass in this song!!!

  13. m.... !....

    Ween goes Cibo Matto.

  14. d.... t....

    wow colby you just have nothing left of personal decency do you?

  15. c.... ....

    Anyone else thinks he sounds a bit like Jack Black here?

    c.... ....

    Umm, you got it twisted sugartits, don't make me school of rock yer candyass now... Jackie boy kneels at the altar that is Ween, or he does detention with Henry and the hard-ons everyday BEFORE class until he does.

  16. t.... g....

    Ajarn Matt brought me here.

  17. T.... J....

    I love speculating on the meanings behind Ween songs. What do you guys figure this song is about? I've heard some say it is about inhaling nitrous, which is somewhat plausible. I've also heard that the "blue balloon" of the song is like a metaphor for this big round Earth we live on. Also plausible. It's always so hard to tell what they're getting at with their songs (some are harder than others, and some don't really seem to be about anything at all lol), but that's one of the things that make Ween so fucking amazing and addictive.

    T.... J....

    @Ra NO ONE KNOWS!!

    T.... J....

    That's right Cameron, NO ONE KNOWS because no one KNOWS a damn thing about a damn thing in this freakshow ride through time and space we call life... the best we can hope for is intelligent, introspectively inspired creatively imagined speculation, with a hint of conjecture and a dash of occams razor added like seasoning to a savory pork roll egg and cheese on a kaiser bun... with some gravy fries. I've never tasted such a culinary delight as that evokes vision of in my mind, but metaphorically speaking which indeed I was, I have encountered the exquisite literary offerings of a fellow type 1 sort of human regarding the blue balloon that really blue my mind. Yeah I know that was very [sic] of me to say that way, so I pray you feel what I'm vibing hombre... and Ima see if I can track down that priceless piece of lyrical meaning breakdown, cuz there's a truckload of fail up in here on that tip, and I don't think my heart can bear the sadness of that, no no no not today... just gimme a wee bit of time and hold my space til I taste the waste, hoping when I pick it up that it is smiling 😁

    T.... J....

    Tuan Jim you get the thumb up for your opening sentence. In spite of how far off the mark you may, OR MAY NOT be - I'm an honest engine too, a chevy with a mopar cam in fact, so my point is you earned eternal impunity for damn near anything you might have said AFTER making it crystal clear that you were speculating... Bravo. You sir, are an intelligent life form, and worthy subject of the Brown kingdom - all hail the mighty Boognish, whom held the sceptre of wealth and power, until seeing fit and just to so do, bestowed it upon Donald Trump for this time and season of diminished rhyme and reason, and the reckoning of our wretched shitstained souls. I have wonderous news from the interior virtuality of songmeanings dot com, a fabulous speculation that overfloweth with all the power and glory of a poopship destroyer, so without further flambouyant fuckery for my flatulant ego, I present....whatever the fuck cock ya call this:

    T.... J....

    4 Years Ago songmeaningstom
    My Interpretation:
    I think a lot of people may be missing the darkness of this song. There's a beautiful twisted dick joke (and possibly worse) under the surface of seemingly serene environmentalism and childhood innocence.

    blue balloon = literally, an inflated child's toy, among life's simplest pleasures
    blue balloon = metaphorically, the earth floating through time and space
    blue = sad, gloomy, or depressed
    balloon = an impending economic crash, or something always on the verge of sudden collapse as impossible expectations meet their reality
    balloon = condom
    blue balls = a man's discomfort from lack of sex
    balloon = a common way heroin and some other drugs are smuggled and/or sold (refer to the song "Dirty Blue Balloons" by Failure)

    I suspect this is about the poor life of a sex worker, trying to get high or distract herself while having to perform oral sex on guys all day. It's so odd that she will accept any man. Her mouth slides over and down the shaft of his penis which is covered by a blue condom. She doesn't make eye contact (eyes defy every man).

    Meanwhile, men are building their own balloons, their impossible expectations, their own economic crash, and no one recognizes the emptiness of it. No one recognizes that the sum of our unfulfilled dreams and our eventual failure to achieve is going to resolve itself with emptying our sperm sacs into a brightly colored rubber receptacle.

    The sex worker is looking for her father's love; if she stays high all day (above the clouds) can she feel the affection she still craves?

    She bounces along the banks of BACCHANAL, which is not a mystical place, it is actually a word for a hedonistic party, or a partying state of mind, in honor of Bacchus, Greek God of wine, indulgence, and so forth.

    Only after beating along the paths (streets) and boulder caps (fat guys?) and icicles (thin guys?) she eventually dies, hardly noticed at all. She expires and her last breath is expelled. It returns to the central blue balloon (the earth/atmosphere).

    The refrain "Blue Balloon, my soul calls to you" I take to mean "You poor wretched walking cumbag, I extend my sympathy, and also I may be attracted to you. I yearn for you, Ms. Blue Balloon, reliever of blue balls." and also "I feel sorry for this whole Earth, this whole big inflated bag of hot air."

    T.... J....

    I'm like that Indian(who wasn't really an Indian) in the old pollution ad from the 70's when he looks upon how we've trashed turtle island... just one single saline drop of clear eye discharge streaming its way down my cheek every time I read the words left by songmeaningstom some 4 years ago. As I said... I don't KNOW how much of that is congruent with Gener's reckoning of Blue Balloon, but it's so fucking tragically beautiful, I can't help but picture that same solitary saline droplet streaming down Aaron's cheek as he reads this epic bit of interpreting himself. In fact, it may be another reason why they don't play this live. Hell, I can't sing Drifter in the Dark without gushing fountains out of both eyes, and it ain't even a sad song. It's just a frequency thing, for my voice to sing those notes, my tear ducts have to release their hold on their resevoirs. How fucking bizarre is that, dudemangs? Smdh....

  18. J.... V....

    The penis envy ('shrooms) make this so .. lovely? Warm? Groovy! Yeah, groovy! Digable uh yeah

  19. B.... D....

    ah.... the nitrous days....

    B.... D....

    definitely about inhalants

    B.... D....

    The days of ecstasy , nitrous oxide and ghb . °\(ö)/° = ) Blurry indeed .

    B.... D....

    Oh yeah!Woah wahwah wall I know is the pod is deff laced full of nitrous . You can tell just by how they used the certain effects and distorted deep voices during that album ...This song on the other hand kinda sounds more like helium then nitrous to me lol

  20. T.... ....

    tripped BALLS on boomers to a Ween CD with all my buddies the other night. This song is trippppyyyy!

    T.... ....

    Shroom on <3

  21. l.... ....

    I was hanging with Dean and Claude after a show in Seattle a few years ago before they broke up, and they said this is the band's least favorite song to play. I was like "seriously?!" Always loved this tune. SOoo glad they are playing shows again!

    l.... ....

    just saw them in Saint Paul, they played like 30 songs

    l.... ....

    And here I was thinking their least favorite song to play was Roses are Free. Cuz they can never get it right XD

    l.... ....

    They keep trying though...like at every show! Actually, I saw them last year in Portland & they played a lot of stuff I wasn't expecting and didn't play some things I was expecting (looking at you, Voodoo Lady.) I'm really digging their set change ups since reforming!

    l.... ....

    But...they've never played it live.

    l.... ....

    @Luke S. now ya know why

  22. t.... ....

    I'm so friggen high¦{~

  23. I.... ....

    @PaulTheHeretic well I'm glad you did or I wouldn't know which albums to actually buy since it's so hard to find this stuff. at the moment it looks like I'm probably gonna have them all at some point :| but I wouldn't be buying any or even know how much I liked Ween if it weren't for these videos on youtube, so thanks.

  24. k.... ....

    I love that crungy organ or whatever the hell it is

    k.... ....

    the fun hole

  25. J.... I....

    toptastic

  26. 2.... ....

    @PaulTheHeretic true, it would just be a shame if weren't on youtube..in this case i think the good outweighs the bad..the boognish approves

  27. 2.... ....

    @PaulTheHeretic So glad there is people like you in youtube land..gotta have my ween

  28. S.... ....

    this song is about my uncle's "playhouse"

  29. D.... ....

    i cant stop listening to this song its so weird and catchy