This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
I can't explain glacial motion
Or why Los Angeles don't drop into the ocean
I can't unfold the layers of mystery
Or piece together the tragedy of history, cause
Those lucky suckers,
They don't have to work
Make 3D billboards and big
30-foot smurfs.
Everybody wants to be naked and famous,
Everybody wants to be just like me
I'm naked
And famous
I met a poet, said she didn't like the smell of it
Then took her clothes off in a restaurant for the hell of it
I met a DJ who lived in seclusion
Reality and sobriety were her only delusions, and
Those lucky bastards
They didn't have to work
Make 3D billboards and big
30-foot smurfs
Don't get a nosebleed,
Don't get upset
We can't be naked and famous
Just yet
There's a big old dollar sign
On the sunset strip
You can send your friend a postcard
It ain't worth the trip
Or why Los Angeles don't drop into the ocean
I can't unfold the layers of mystery
Or piece together the tragedy of history, cause
Those lucky suckers,
They don't have to work
Make 3D billboards and big
30-foot smurfs.
Everybody wants to be naked and famous,
Everybody wants to be just like me
I'm naked
And famous
I met a poet, said she didn't like the smell of it
Then took her clothes off in a restaurant for the hell of it
I met a DJ who lived in seclusion
Reality and sobriety were her only delusions, and
Those lucky bastards
They didn't have to work
Make 3D billboards and big
30-foot smurfs
Don't get a nosebleed,
Don't get upset
We can't be naked and famous
Just yet
There's a big old dollar sign
On the sunset strip
You can send your friend a postcard
It ain't worth the trip
Lyrics submitted by carboncentric, edited by DrThunder
Naked and Famous Lyrics as written by David Michael Dederer Chris Ballew
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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They are saying "smirks", if you listen to the boston demo of the song you hear it clearly
yeah, it's smirks, but 30-foot smurfs is a hell of a lot funnier
Actually, I think it's talking about how the singer keeps seeing all these billboards of scantily clad women and men, and laments the fact that they're getting paid loads of cash to essentially be naked.
True...he's kinda, mocking models.
It could mean that a man wants to be a still-life as opposed living breathing human. It would be easier just to be easier to be a big 30-foot smurf that made no noise and not have to breathe. When the singer his nakedness and famousness, I think he is crying out for help.
Let me clarify my random comments...The singer would rather be a 30-foot smurf that made no noise and didn't breathe because the smurf would have to deal with life. When the singer asserts his nakedness and famousness, I think he is crying out for help. Everybody wants fame but the singer is warning them that fame isn't worth the price. There's a big old dollar sign on the sunset strip...could mean that all those Hollywood honchos want is money.
Wow I love this song, one of my personal favs off of the album. I think i might make a new screen name or 2 usin this title...
One day I'm gonna' be naked and famous. My name's Vic Savino, remember it...
strange, i always thought it was "big 30 foot smirks" which makes more sense to me... but i guess the presidents thought otherwise.
i think this song is about drugs that make you hallucinate