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It's about Peter Fonda's buddy, Dennis Hopper. The two are cruising down the highway countin' white lines, when some goofy rednecks in a pickup ride by and blow away the Gypsy Biker. Then young Fonda turns around and heads back to get his buddy, but the rednecks blow up his bike into flames, lighting the ravine. The narrator is Jack Nicholson, a stoned lawyer who befriended the Gypsy Biker and young Fonda.

In Gypsy Biker II, Nicholson will get himself straight long enough to sue the rednecks for wrecking the mood of the movie. He'll win millions in the suit, and will then have enough dough to woo sexy, young starlets his grandaughter's age, and to sit courtside at Laker games for the rest of his life.

It's a Hollywood love story.
Trust none of what you hear ... and less of what you see ..
Originally Posted By: Boss302
In Gypsy Biker II, Nicholson will get himself straight long enough to sue the rednecks for wrecking the mood of the movie. He'll win millions in the suit, and will then have enough dough to woo sexy, young starlets his grandaughter's age, and to sit courtside at Laker games for the rest of his life.

It's a Hollywood love story.


Now, I think it's actually about Kobe running Shaq out of town.
Quote:
Now I'm out countin' white lines
Countin' white lines and getting stoned
My Gypsy biker is coming home.


You decide...
My vote is A)

A)

B)

C)

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It?s only an opinion of course but I?m quite sure that Gipsy Biker is a war song.

The narrator and GB were two bikers that used to ?rode her to the foothills?.?; then Gipsy went to Iraq and now he?s dead.
So Gipsy is coming home in a coffin. Sister Mary is his mother (she has his colours ? I guess hair, eyes, skin?) and she?s pulling the sheet off his bed (he?ll never use it anymore, of course). Brother John is his father and, because of his pain, he?s drunk and gone.
Those who are waiting for his body to come back (narrator is one of them), in his honor pull his cycle out of the back garage and polish up the chrome. Nobody talks because there?s nothing to talk about, everybody already knows, they?re just waiting on the phone that someone informs them Gipsy?s body has come back home.
The speculators of the first verse are the warmongers that get rich on the blood shed by soldiers.
The favored march up over the hill are the so-called patriots, seen as a fool parade shouting for the victory of the war against the evil; but over that hill there are just graves (of the soldiers that died in war).
Gipsy now sleep into his darkness (death) and all that remains is the love of his old friends.
For those that threw his life away (the warmongers again) he?s nothing but gone.
It?s not important to know ?bout who?s wrong or right. Gipsy has died by now, all the rest doesn?t matter anymore.
I just have a doubt on the last verses: countin? white lines could mean ?now I go on the street alone and, while driving the bike, I count the white line in the middle of the road as I get stoned because of my friend?s death?. But it also could mean: ?I go to the war cemetery on the hill and get stoned countin? all the white crosses of the graves?.
Surely it?s not about cocaine: I guess some of you were just joking.

What do you think about? Can it be this way?
I can answer this once and for all.

He is counting them.
Why would you count them?

I can't think of any reason to count the lines on the road. TO see haw far you've gone? I went 30,000 white lines today, how about you?

If it was coke he would have said doing lines and getting stoned. You don't count them.

You count crosses because you can't fucking believe the cost of war.
I have gotten high while riding a motorcycle many times. Bikers are dangerous people, they live dangerous lives. Also Bruce condoned drinking and driving so why wouldn't he condone toking and driving, not that he is condoning anything in his songs when he is speaking as a character. Plus you argue with me on every thread I post to!!!
Excluding the cocaine joke, both alternative theories could be right as I said above.

The idea of a graveyard is a good possibility. Every things fit.

But Soul Driver isn't wrong. It could be the survived biker that metaphorically counts the white lines of the road because his mind is too stoned. Not only children, even adults while going on the road, can do things apparently nonsense, such as counting the miles, looking at the license plates of the cars, counting the bridges that cross above the highway and, why not, counting the white lines of the road.
Things that you do while you're wasting time or you don't want to think to something else.....such as the death of your friend!

Only Bruce can say. Please Bruce, connect to spl NOW and tell us!
I've only posted a few times and you have disagreed with me on both occasions. I'm used to people agreeing with me so I doubt we'll ever become best buds. Nothinig personal. it's just that you're wrong so much and I have a low tolerance for that. As far as anyone thinking the white lines in Gypsy Biker are cocaine, I don't think anyone who uses coke would refer to the effect as being stoned. I also think if Bruce were talking about a graveyard he wouldn't have called them white lines. Yeah, I know, I know, you can see em as rows and white lines if you look at certain angles or you're driving by, but, nope, I don't think that's it this time. He's a biker. He's stoned. He's out riding the road and thinking about his brother. They're lines on the highway. The phrase "countin' white lines" refers to the miles passing beneath the bike. That's it now, really. I don't have time to keep going back and forth about this. Let's not discussit any more, Gob.
I mean...I don't want to see Bruce as an educator or a preacher. Even in recent works he often wrote about his mistakes and something not so high morally or ethically (see Reno).

But I see Bruce soo distant to dope, coke and so on. It would be very weird that in such great lyrics he closes with a dope image. Not impossible but surely weird.

I rest with the doubt about the alternative theories (war cemetery or white lines of the road).

Whether is the right answer, I put GB at the top of the album together with LWH. Already two classic songs. Strictlly close to them I put Magic, LTD and Devil's Arcade. The other songs are so good, they stay proudly in this very very very good rock album.
Only I don't like soo much You'll Be Coming Down, not bad but just a "normal song".
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