While the truth in the first half of the song is obvious, the next part of the story takes a turn for the idealistic. Many women do go out to bars and drink, and some men - however few you want to argue - do take advantage of them. Sadly, this part of the song is entrenched in reality. We don’t have the details on what exactly happened, and all we know is “ She didn’t want to. Perhaps he overpowered her, or she was too intoxicated to fight back, or she was just too afraid to do anything. As the song goes, “ That’s when things got out of control.” He has sex with the woman, despite the lack of consent and her continued insistence on leaving. The man makes a move on his passenger, and she refuses. The man takes the girl to an unnamed location, and what occurs at this location sets the stage for the rest of the song. Although it’s not explicitly stated in the song, it is safe to assume the woman becomes reasonably inebriated - judging by how “ one drink into three or four…” and the woman willingly leaves the bar with her new “friend.” The story of the song is simple: A woman goes to a bar by herself, and then a mysterious man enters the bar and starts buying her drinks. Regardless of your feelings of the band or genre of music, I think we can all commend Sublime’s admirable effort of shunning rape culture - a culture that had little opposition in the early 90s.
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