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Jump, Little Children – Pigeon Lyrics	20 years ago
There are a number of errors to the lyrics, but the song was inspired by an incident in which Jay was observing his wife by a river. The actual story he told was about nine minutes and very rambling, but that's the jist.

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Jump, Little Children – Lamplight Lyrics	20 years ago
This song was loosely inspired by Jonny's time as a circus carnie (written by Jay)

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Jump, Little Children – Forget My Loss Lyrics	20 years ago
The song was apparently written by Jay about a friend who had to have an abortion (loosely based).

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Jump, Little Children – First To Feel Like This Lyrics	20 years ago
This song is simply about what it's like to be a performing musician.

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Jump, Little Children – Easter Parade Lyrics	20 years ago
At a show way back when, Jay explained that he wrote this song when he was at a parade, where a girl, who had apparently set herself on fire, ran out in front of the band, stopped, and yelled "I'm in love!" Someone, Jonny I believe, suggested that she was trampled to death, but Jay said that he didn't know.

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Jump, Little Children – Copper Kettle Lyrics	20 years ago
This is actually an old Appalachian tune, which Jump usually sandwiches between an intro and outro of "Si Beag, Si Mhor"

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Jump, Little Children – Bad Side Lyrics	20 years ago
Jay once said that this song was written about Ward's love life at the time. Poor Ward.

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Jump, Little Children – The House Our Father Knew Lyrics	21 years ago
This song was written by Jay and Evan about an abusive father.

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Jump, Little Children – Dancing Virginia Lyrics	21 years ago
Update: the song is also a metaphor for a girl he was dating at the time.

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Jump, Little Children – Lover's Greed Lyrics	21 years ago
Jay was apparently influenced by Pablo Neruda's poetry when writing this song.

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Jump, Little Children – Words Of Wisdom Lyrics	21 years ago
This song was written by Evan Bivins when his dad, John, was sick with cancer, about the inevitability of his death.

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Jump, Little Children – Vertigo Lyrics	21 years ago
According to Jay, this (and several other songs from the album, including "Lover's Greed") is about falling in love with his girlfriend and now wife, Stacey.

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Jump, Little Children – Opium Lyrics

21 years ago

According to Jay's very loooong story about this song, it revolves around an incident that took place in New York. The short version is that he, Chris, and Evan partook in the consumption of a certain drug...LSD...that he can't name...LSD...at a party...LSD. Chris got rather weird under the influence, and at one point tried to call his girlfriend but got the wrong number and kept saying "is Rachel there? facial hair" over and over. Yeah. Interesting story.

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Jump, Little Children – Come Around Lyrics	21 years ago
This one is about Jay's grandfather, apparently.

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Jump, Little Children – Violent Dreams Lyrics	21 years ago
Jay wrote this song when his sister was in the hospital. He dedicated it to his father on his birthday, which is a little odd, but hey. Whatever works.

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Jump, Little Children – Singer Lyrics	21 years ago
Matt explained at Dock Street XIII that this song was written for Lauren about a hypothetical situation. He also noted "the Singer has not stopped singing... for me."

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Jump, Little Children – Dancing Virginia Lyrics	21 years ago
Jay wrote it on the way back from their awful winter in Boston, it was one of the songs he wrote about the places they travelled through on the way to Charleston.

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Jump, Little Children – Cathedrals Lyrics	21 years ago
I also heard Jay tell the story at the solo show, but I also heard somewhere that he wrote "Cathedrals" after wandering around at night in New York and looking at St. Patrick's

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Jump, Little Children – Broken Lyrics	21 years ago
this song was written by Jay in response to the war on terrorism.

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Jump, Little Children – 15 Stories Lyrics	21 years ago
Jay wrote this song about Kurt Cobain's suicide.

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