In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
I want to be in a pop punk band
Tryin' to ride to pop punk land
I know what I'm gonna wear
I'll have spiky pop punk hair
Bore us, bore us, got a stupid chorus
Just can't stop it, got it at hot topic
No need to read the lyric sheet
It's the same old song, the same old harmony
I'm gonna find me a pop punk girl
Its not tough in a pop punk world
A love that can't be bought
I want to sing like tom delonge
Bore us, bore us, got a stupid chorus
Just can't stop it, got it at hot topic
No need to read the lyric sheet
It's the same old song, the same old harmony
I got it at hot topic
My parents dropped me off to pay for it
Get all my ideas from mtv
I got it at hot topic
My parents dropped me off to pay for it
Prepackaged for conformity
So fuck me
Bore us, bore us, got a stupid chorus
Just can't stop it, got it at hot topic
No need to read the lyric sheet
It's the same old song, the same old harmony
Tryin' to ride to pop punk land
I know what I'm gonna wear
I'll have spiky pop punk hair
Bore us, bore us, got a stupid chorus
Just can't stop it, got it at hot topic
No need to read the lyric sheet
It's the same old song, the same old harmony
I'm gonna find me a pop punk girl
Its not tough in a pop punk world
A love that can't be bought
I want to sing like tom delonge
Bore us, bore us, got a stupid chorus
Just can't stop it, got it at hot topic
No need to read the lyric sheet
It's the same old song, the same old harmony
I got it at hot topic
My parents dropped me off to pay for it
Get all my ideas from mtv
I got it at hot topic
My parents dropped me off to pay for it
Prepackaged for conformity
So fuck me
Bore us, bore us, got a stupid chorus
Just can't stop it, got it at hot topic
No need to read the lyric sheet
It's the same old song, the same old harmony
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Damn this song is friggin hilarious!!! Thank you for this kick ass song!!! I needed something to laugh about!!! But I also disagree bout hot topic...only place I can go to get crap anyway...
im sorry but this song sounds pop-punky to me.. . . except for matt skiba..
haha, this is a great song...a guy i barely know was driving me home from musical one night (his gf was supposed to give me a ride, but he drove) and said "you'll like this" and, oddly, he was right! it was great...and yeah, the song is kinda pop-punky--irony, baby! thety're completely mocking the genre, adding the music to it just makes it better. and hot topic is way over priced, and more than likely run by guys who give their kids BWMs and buy them a&f stuff to wear...gee, how's come no one's figured out it's just a huge corporation?
I'm sorry but this song is crap. Musically, the drummer can't drum and the chord progression is simple, not in a cool Green Day way but in a crap, 12 year old songwriter way. And the lyrics also sound like they were written by a pre-teen! The fact that Matt Skiba is in a blatantly pop punk band (Alk3 rule, but c'mon...) just makes the lyrics hypocritical, and how this band got on the Warped Tour with songs like this will remain a mystery to me. Okay, rant over!
Its a funny song but I don't thing the song was ment serouslly. alkaline trio has tourn with blink 182. for all the idiots who don't know
tourn isn't a word. for the idiot who thinks it is.
IRONY!