I liberate
I liberate the cold inside
Camouflaged
But is it all same guy, same guy?

There's a bad scene
Worked up and sterilized
There's a black seed
Choked up and burning

Unfamiliar, unremorseful
That's the way you were
Don't want to bring it up again
That's the way you were
Ohh, well

You raise questions of me
You haunt sections of town

Unfamiliar, unremorseful
That's the way you were
Don't want to bring it up again
That's the way you were
Unfamiliar, unremorseful
That's the way you were
Don't want to bring it up again
That's the way you were

Be this or not I know I don't understand
How this is appropriate
Be this or not and no we don't Understand
How bad at debate we are
And so we freeze
And so we freeze
And so we freeze...




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    I think this song is about finding a person's true personality, and at the same time finding out what you knew about him/her before, were all a charade (That's the way you were) (Be this or not I know I don't understand). This brings a kind of uncertainty to both (And so we freeze).

    The title "Princeton Review" leads me to believe this is something in the past, and that the two characters portrayed here continued living on, frozen.

    kaoru_ninon September 29, 2006   Link

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