“Green Eyed Love” is the downbeat album-closer from Michigan soul singer Mayer Hawthorne’s Stones Throw debut LP, A Strange Arrangement. On first blush its lyrics seem to suggest he’s got a thing with a tempestuous, ill-advised green-eyed girlfriend. Or with weed. The twist is that Mayer’s green comes not via girls or herb, but through slotted spoons and sugarcubes. A fix of absinthe later, Hawthorne’s watching lips grow out of bathroom tiles and girls get multiplied and colorized; not your average look for soul-rooted music, coming from a guy who’s not your average look for a soul-rooted artist.
A Strange Arrangement is out via Stones Throw. “Green Eyed Love” anchors the new Green Eyed Love Remixes 12″ which features reworks by Claxsixx and Waajeed. Buy that here.
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awesome track and video
Man, I totally thought it was about his love for the sticky icky-icky. I have been officially put on notice. All hail the Mayer!
Love it.
can’t get this song out of my effing head:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBKx8PyE5qQ
love this guy.
I would say that the song is actually still about weed. I went to his concert last week and he said his bassist would smoke all your green eyed love after the show. So I’m prettttty sure the songs still about that
Umm, I’m pretty sure you’re an idiot