| The Shins – New Slang Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Okay I’ve read just about all of these interpretations and this is what I think (a bit from others and my own thoughts too) Gold teeth and a curse for this town were all in my mouth. Only, I don't know how they got out, dear. >I had always been quiet and good, hating this place, but keeping quiet and I don’t know how I finally came to say that I hate it. Turn me back into the pet that I was when we met. I was happier then with no mind-set. >Turn me into the mindless slave I was when we were together, I was happier not thinking and not worrying. And if you'd 'a took to me like A gull takes to the wind. Well, I'd 'a jumped from my tree And I'd a danced like the king of the eyesores And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well. >If you would have taken to me and cared for me I would have came down from my solitude and “danced” like I was the best, even though I look like a fool, because you and I would be together and everything would be alright. New slang when you notice the stripes, the dirt in your fries. Hope it's right when you die, old and bony. >Everything changes when you wake up to reality, how bad things are, and I hope that when you die, things are right for you Dawn breaks like a bull through the hall, Never should have called But my head's to the wall and I'm lonely. >Realization of your surroundings breaks in rudely and your dreams are shattered, I shouldn’t have asked you to come back, but I am alone and couldn’t think of what else to do. (Then there’s the chorus again) God speed all the bakers at dawn may they all cut their thumbs, And bleed into their buns 'till they melt away. >May all the people who helped create my feelings, slip-up and rid me of these feelings entirely. I'm looking in on the good life I might be doomed never to find. >I see my old lover, living the happy life that might never be mine. Without a trust or flaming fields am I too dumb to refine? >It seems like no one has hope to make me happy and fine again, they think that I am too stupid being caught up in the past to be remedied. *I’m not saying that this is what The Shins were thinking, it’s just what I think of when I listen to this song… which IS my fave :)" |
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