| Fall Out Boy – I've Got All This Ringing in My Ears and None on My Fingers Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The meaning I lean towards more is Aubergine's, but fvnessecafe's interpretation is also quite logical. But, I don't think that the song is focused solely on HeyChris, because I think it's more about Jeanae. "You're a canary, I'm a coal mine 'Cause sorrow is just all the rage Take one for the team You all know what I mean" - Coal miners used canaries to measure the stability of the air in the mines. The canaries would eventually die. Pete's saying that he could easily kill a relationship with whomever. I think "Take one for the team..." might mean that since Pete takes on the frontman role of FOB, that he gets blamed for most of the shit thrown at them. "And I'm so sorry, but not really Tell the boys where to find my body New York eyes, Chicago thighs Pushed up the window to kiss you, off" - "I'm so sorry, but not really" is one of my favorite parts of the song. Anyway, he may say he's sorry for all the trouble, but he doesn't mean it on the inside. I think it's just me that gets a different meaning on the NY eyes part - but you ever heard the expression "apple of my eye"? Well, NY is nicknamed the Big Apple. Or it could mean that New York is bright, busy, pulls people in, and if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere, so Pete sees all of that in that pair of eyes. And 'Chicago thighs' is one of the many sexual innuendos that Pete loves. The window part means he's letting her in through his window so they can make love for (what's supposed to be) the last time. "The truth hurts worse than anything I could bring myself to do, to you The truth hurts worse than anything I could bring myself to do, to you" - I don't see the need to interpret this. Pretty much explains itself. "Do you remember the way I held your hand under the lamp post and ran home? This way, so many times I could close my eyes" - He's recalling the memories of when things were good. He could close his eyes and remember it just like it was yesterday, but now the good times are long gone. |
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| Fall Out Boy – This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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To me, the title pretty much sums up the meaning of the song. But I'll go verse by verse: "I am an arms dealer fitting you with weapons in the form of words And (don't really care which side wins) As long as the room keeps singing that's just the business I'm in This ain't a scene, it's a goddamn arms race This ain't a scene, it's a goddamn arms race This ain't a scene, it's a goddamn arms race I'm not a shoulder to cry on, but I digress" - He just writes down what he feels, it's not his fault how people interpret or use them, so why care? He's in it because he gets off on the crowd singing along, so don't come to him with problems. "I'm the leading man And the lies I weave are oh so intricate, oh so intricate I'm the leading man And the lies I weave are oh so intricate, oh so intricate" - There's a chance that not everything he writes is the truth. Pete can sometimes be... well... overdramatic, to say the least, so some things may have been embellished. "I wrote the gospel on giving up (and looking pretty sinking) But the real bombshells have already sunk (primadonnas of the gutter) At night we're painting your trash gold, while you sleep Crashing not like hips or cars but more like p-p-p-parties" - I actually think the line says "But the real bombshells have already SUNG," which, to me, makes more sense because I feel this verse is trying to get across that the "real" emo scene died long ago, so everyone who's hopping on now is too late. Then there's "Bandwagon's full, please catch another," which means since all these kids have hopped onto this monster that's been created, anyone else who wants in just needs to find something else. "All the boys who the dancefloor didn't love, and all the girls whose lips couldn't move fast enough, sing, until your lungs give out" - Basically, it's a shout out to the scene kids. More than anyone else, this song is really for them. |
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| Brand New – Sowing Season (Yeah) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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In response to omgitsfinkel's interpretation of "Nothing gets so bad, a whisper from your father couldn't fix it. Your whispers like a bridge, he's a river span" line, I don't think it's a strained relationship either, but I do see how it could taken as such. Anyway, to sum it up, I think it means that even a 'don't worry, things will be okay' from someone important in your life couldn't even change how you feel, and anything you say to that person -- be it bad or good -- is, as the old saying goes, "Water under the bridge." But that's how I see it. |
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| Fort Minor – Where'd You Go? Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The girl singing in the chorus is Holly Brook, loop-to-loop. I just have to say that "Where'd You Go?" is love. I got Fort Minor's 'The Rising Tied' the day it came out and I couldn't tell you how many times I listened to this song. The words are simple, but that adds to the song's honesty and ups the ability to relate to it better. And I think that's why this song has seen more success than "Petrified". It's real. It deals with a situation everyone has, or will, go through. And the video is touching. I love it. |
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| Fall Out Boy – Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part to Save the Scene and Stop Going to Shows) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song (along with "XO") pretty much sums up the whole theme of 'From Under the Cork Tree'. "Get Busy Living..." is a musical satire on the whole emo/pop-punk scene, yet at the same time it sort of defending it and says that the whole thing could be so much better if "you" (meaning all us Hot Topic buying, suburban, middle-class subdivision living teens) stop supporting it. The first verse is a typical emo/pop-punk situation, but fair warning is given. the "This had been said so many times that I'm not sure if it matters" line kinda lets the listener or reader know that here comes another cliche. "Mailing letters to addresses in a ghost town" means that he's writing letters from the road but no one is responding. I think the chorus is FOB's way of telling the "scene" people that, "Hey, they all know what this whole thing is about. And you know what's sad? There isn't even a good reason for our whining." Or could directed toward a girl or maybe even anyone listening. The secong verse is stating what people say about the scene. That it's nothing but boys crooning about their heartache because they're just little attention whores. But the reation to it was never expected. And then the "I'm falling apart to songs about hips and hearts" is obviously a stab at the kids. Then we get to "I used to obsess over living/Now I only obsess over you/Tell me you'd like boys like me better/In the dark, lying on top of you." Again, I think it's directed towards a girl. The girl wouldn't normally like scene guys, except when they're screwing her. Sexual innuendo like that is laced all throughout FUCT (best acronym EVER), which gives the album a sense of something darker, of people just curing their ills with sex, of people's motives (including FOB's own), but the weight of it doesn't hit you until the CD ends. |
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| Brand New – Good to Know That If I Ever Need Attention All I Have to Do Is Die Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I heard somewhere that "Good to Know..." is about Brand New talking against their record company. But I think it could be about someone not appreciating the lyrics Jesse writes and he finds it hard to talk to that person. Examples: "Am I correct to defend the fist that holds this pen?" "You constantly make it impossible to make conversation/We're comatose but audible." And the parts about burning gallows and slitting the necks of soldiers is about Jesse taking his revenge against the person. This all explains the title of the song. It describes how Jesse expresses how he feels, but no one listens and/or always has something to say when he speaks/sings. |
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| Brand New – Guernica Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I remember when I first bought the album and got to this song, I just kept it on repeat and I actually cried. This song is so touching to me. "The best part of what has happened was the part I must have missed So I'm asking you to shine it on and stick around I'm not writing my goodbyes" gets me every single time. |
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| Linkin Park – Breaking The Habit Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I think this song is one of the best Linkin Park songs ever. Mike said he wrote it for a "friend". The friend is probably Chester. Anyway, the lines are powerful. It does deal with drugs, suicide, or whatever someone is doing to themselves that is self-destructive. The video relfects that very well. Joe actually said that the BTH video was based on situations fans have told them about. "Like opening the wounds I'm picking me apart again" Amazing. And Mike wrote the lyrics all by himself. It's wonderful to see what he can do. |
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