 " Clown " ' s concept deals with an incident that happened in San Diego , California . A skinhead that told Davis to " go back to Bakersfield " attempted to hit Davis but he dodged and the band 's road manager , Jeff , knocked the skinhead out . " Helmet in the Bush " was about Davis ' drug abuse , and the fear that gripped him at the height of his drug problem . He pleaded for a divine intervention to deliver him from his nightmare , as if he cannot help himself . Davis explained : " I 'd wake up in the morning and do a line to get out of bed . Speed in the morning , I 'd have it all lined up for breakfast so when I 'd lay down and go to sleep , I 'd wake up and just snort and it 's like ' Yeah , okay , I 'm up . ' It was bad . It 's like , you do one line and stay up all night , but then you have shit to do the next day so you have to do another line to be able keep staying up to get that shit done . Eventually you start spinning @-@ out from sleep deprivation . You get hallucinations and shit like that . " 
