In a car outside, we stalk the idle kind.
If you're leaving, just let me know.
Tobacco and peppermint, dusting for fingerprints.
A film in her eyes from the glow.
Some rules are made with all intentions to break
And she defends it with a warped rationale.
And I've seen what happens to the wicked and proud
When they decide to try to take on the throne for the crown.

And we learn as we age.
Wait for nothing
And my body still aches.
And you take cause they give.
Though I love you
And my body it leaks like a sieve.

When it got old outside, smoke beneath the playground lights.
If you're coming home, just let me know.
Sucking on your breath mint, dissected and stuck with pins.
A film in her eyes from the glow.
Concrete and water, she's looking for her daughter
At midnight in torrential downpour.
And everything I said about how messed your head is,
Were cut up and left in bits and pieces on the ground.

And we learn as we age.
We've learned nothing and my body still aches.
And you take cause they give.
Though I love you and my body it leaks like a sieve.

And we learn as we age.
We've learned nothing and my body still aches.
And you take cause they give.
Though I love you and my body it leaks like a sieve.

Take the picture from the wall when you think that nothing matters.
Take the picture from the frame and it's a long ways to the floor.
Cut your finger on the edge cause it's sharper than they told you.
Take a leap from out the window cause it's way too far to go through the door.

And we learn as we age.
Wait for nothing and my body still aches.
And you take cause they give.
Though I love you and my body it leaks like a sieve.


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    I think that this song is about him watching his girlfriend (or at least a friend). Its starts out that there hanging out and smoking when she tells him that she wants to run away from home [if you're leavin' just let me know]... and so he asks her why so she prolly whines about how "her parents won't let her stay out all night and how life is just so unfair" or that type of BS [she defends it with a warped rationale]... as he watches her make all these mistakes over and over [as we learn as we age we learn we learn nothing], selfishly taking all the love and support that she gets from her friends and family and using it only to further her own means [and you take cuz they give / wicked and proud take on the thrown for the crown] just makes him really angry and cynical [my body it leaks like a sieve]... it seems that he stays in contact with her in the later verses and tries to convince to come home [if you're coming home just let me know]... he also observes how her absence has torn apart her family as he watches her mother search for her [Concrete and water, she's looking for her daughter at midnight in torrential downpour] which makes him fed up with her that he won't even send a letter he wrote for her [And everything I said about how messed your head is We're cut up and left in bits and pieces on the ground]... the breakdown is apparently about angrily/sadly shattering a picture of her but idk if it is suppose to be him or her mother... the mother may have also committed suicide [Take a leap from out the window cause it's way too far to go through the door]... This is a really a meaningful and deep BN song but it seems like one of the more confusing ones.... i dont fully understand the line [Sucking on your breath mint, dissected and stuck with pins] or [A film in her eyes from the glow]... i think that they both may simply be atmospheric to help paint a picture in your mind... i love the line about the breathmint cuz it reminds me about sucking on breathmints until they get all spiny and cut ur tongue, ya know... that last part stupid but whatever

    strummer_2007on January 12, 2008   Link

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