| Strung Out – Kill Your Scene Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is not about Jim Cherry; it's about this new "dark" trend that, at the time this song was written, was just starting to re-invade mainstream, or sub-mainstream music. Think AFI, My Chemical Romance, and the other teeny-bopper mascara bands (I like AFI, but you know the trend I'm talking about) that have followings of "dark" fans. That means gothic kids, emo kids, scene kids, or whatever. "You weigh your sadness well, it fits the color of your world." Here I'm thinking the color black, and how people, ostensibly, adorn themselves in it to show other people how sad they are. The color black purveys the "scene" of these cliques: it's in the t-shirts, the pants, the mascara, the hair, the album covers, the lyrics, etc... "Breakneck lies romanticize these empty-headed alibis; the drama you create amuses you and only you." This is about how these types of people lie to themselves and to others about their sadness, either to keep themselves in a perpetual state of misery or depression, or to put up a facade so other people think they're dark, or enigmatic, or whatever. "Show yourself and kill your scene; you are your worst enemy." Cut the act. Stop the facade. You do it to yourself. |
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| Strung Out – Lost Motel Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song is simply about getting lost in life, and all of the thoughts and actions that are attached to the process. Instead of just laying out the struggle from a personal perspective, Jason describes it as a problem that everyone has; or, in this case, as a place that everyone gets to: the Lost Motel. The lost part is pretty self-explanatory, but describing the place as a "motel" shows that he sees it as a temporary place (most people check in and out of motels). People either find the answers they're looking for, check out and keep moving down the road, check out permanently (suicide), or they rot in the lost motel and often engage in self-destructive behaviors, as illustrated by the two people he describes in the song. It's a great metaphor, and very true to life. | |
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