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.
Crash and burn crash and burn crash and burn tonight
We're gonna keep on partyin' 'til the wake of daylight
Crash and burn crash and burn crash and burn tonight
We're gonna keep on partyin' 'til the wake of daylight
Rosy is a Puerto Rican porn star; that girl knows how to get down
Making money, making movies, lying always on tour, took off her clothes on the ground
Then one said: "Wake up Tim, its midnight, its a city out there to go for a ride"
Like two vampires, we ride through the cities, we sleep as dogs backside
I don't give a fuck, never did never would, never could back down, not one time
So I'm gonna keep, making music, making records, keep telling people what's on my mind
I'm the same kid that I ever was even though I got platinum plaques on my walls
And I dress in black and it's a fact I don't give a goddamn at all
Crash and burn crash and burn crash and burn tonight
We're gonna keep on partyin' 'til the wake of daylight
I think back to better days, took a license to ill
Before I ever held someone fell in love with the bills
Back before I had to ride and go hunt for a kill
Way before I tried to rhyme and go hunt for a kill
It's real survives with guns playin' only from the shoulders
Wrong way down a one way still avoid the rollers
Still I beat a motherfucker like its going outta style
Tried to cheat me outta my cash so I beat it out his child
I'm wild, my pupils dilated same as my people
I'm the only mother present to build you a church steeple
Speak evil to the world teach all the boys and girls
That they can't trust no one, show them what you heard
Cause I mind my own business and I do my own dirt
And I make my own money cause I got my own work
I swear somebody better send a ceast and desist
Before I squeeze it with my fist and they cease to exist
Crash and burn crash and burn crash and burn tonight
We're gonna keep on partyin' 'til the wake of daylight
A party was bash for how long it was lasted
Some turn cash like hash to ashes
Some dash hot slugs run the fastest
Who we fought to eat, unless we fasting
But thugs are not like most actors casted
Thugs might blast and smash your casket
America's worst fear, white, brown and black kids, together
Fed up, strapped up to tatted
Bald heads, jerry curls, classic perms,
Toast to a new day having its turn
Tequila, the bottle is like a bath for worms
The paranoid, that's way past concerned
I hope the country and the world get past this term
This is show and tell, so the class will learn
Party go until the cops come and crash and burn
Crash and burn crash and burn crash and burn tonight
We're gonna keep on partyin' 'til the wake of daylight
We're gonna keep on partyin' 'til the wake of daylight
Crash and burn crash and burn crash and burn tonight
We're gonna keep on partyin' 'til the wake of daylight
Rosy is a Puerto Rican porn star; that girl knows how to get down
Making money, making movies, lying always on tour, took off her clothes on the ground
Then one said: "Wake up Tim, its midnight, its a city out there to go for a ride"
Like two vampires, we ride through the cities, we sleep as dogs backside
I don't give a fuck, never did never would, never could back down, not one time
So I'm gonna keep, making music, making records, keep telling people what's on my mind
I'm the same kid that I ever was even though I got platinum plaques on my walls
And I dress in black and it's a fact I don't give a goddamn at all
Crash and burn crash and burn crash and burn tonight
We're gonna keep on partyin' 'til the wake of daylight
I think back to better days, took a license to ill
Before I ever held someone fell in love with the bills
Back before I had to ride and go hunt for a kill
Way before I tried to rhyme and go hunt for a kill
It's real survives with guns playin' only from the shoulders
Wrong way down a one way still avoid the rollers
Still I beat a motherfucker like its going outta style
Tried to cheat me outta my cash so I beat it out his child
I'm wild, my pupils dilated same as my people
I'm the only mother present to build you a church steeple
Speak evil to the world teach all the boys and girls
That they can't trust no one, show them what you heard
Cause I mind my own business and I do my own dirt
And I make my own money cause I got my own work
I swear somebody better send a ceast and desist
Before I squeeze it with my fist and they cease to exist
Crash and burn crash and burn crash and burn tonight
We're gonna keep on partyin' 'til the wake of daylight
A party was bash for how long it was lasted
Some turn cash like hash to ashes
Some dash hot slugs run the fastest
Who we fought to eat, unless we fasting
But thugs are not like most actors casted
Thugs might blast and smash your casket
America's worst fear, white, brown and black kids, together
Fed up, strapped up to tatted
Bald heads, jerry curls, classic perms,
Toast to a new day having its turn
Tequila, the bottle is like a bath for worms
The paranoid, that's way past concerned
I hope the country and the world get past this term
This is show and tell, so the class will learn
Party go until the cops come and crash and burn
Crash and burn crash and burn crash and burn tonight
We're gonna keep on partyin' 'til the wake of daylight
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Crash and Burn Lyrics as written by Rob Aston Tim Armstrong
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