I've seen you in my face as I've aged.
You beautiful fuck up, so casually brave.
It made me less lonely, it helped me.
The conventions that broke your nose
I find quaint. I look for you in crowds now that I don't know where you are,
as I'm pilled to the gills,
prowling through bars.
You are missed, missed,
missed as the men of The Bismarck.
I hope you know that you are.

Let us now speak of brave men
who lived their lives just as they would have it.

I would give my last dollar away
just to hang out with you one more day.

We've got a country between us and our age.
We've got a different set of vices but all
the rage. It made me less lonely, and it
helped me when conventions that broke your nose hit me. Can't pretend to know
how you had it, the past's prejudices are just that.
I want you to know that it mattered
that you walked the walk and talked the talk. You talked the talk and fought the...

Let us now speak of brave men who lived their lives just as they would have it.
As you like it.



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    I feel like it would be almost inappropriate to actually interpret World/Inferno songs, ya know? Too much thinking. What this song means to me is that it was their first song that I memorized and they played it when i saw them and I flipped out.

    Idsaysgoon October 03, 2007   Link

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