| Brand New – Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I have to say i agree that it is i.o.u. thats what i hear. for me, this song is powerful in its brutal honesty, as someone else has mentioned already. i guess i dont really care whether its really about the record industry or not. i only hear the picture it paints. when i hear it a feeling overcomes me that makes me ashamed of ways ive been and things ive done. it saddens me deeply. i dont want to be that guy who has inebriated one night stands any more. im glad there is someone writing songs like this. |
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| Brand New – Jaws Theme Swimming Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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wow, reading this has prompted me to join this site and share my thoughts on this song. first of all, this album IS amazing. the lyrics are sheer poetry on the highest level of songwriting. I seem to find my lyrical interpretations a bit darker though. as with most of the songs on this album, i see this song as a vignette. it tells me a story of a predatory stranger possibly abducting a little girl. him leaving tobacco, peppermints and fingerprints in the car as in a crime scene. her, "sucking on your breath mint, dissected and stuck with pins" (killed probably), and of course the smoke (from his tobacco) at the playground and its cold outside, these also set the tone. And then from the mothers point of view (as if to her daughter) "if youre leaving just let me know" and "if your coming home just let me know". of course she leaves without letting her mother know. ("some rules are made with all intentions to break") hence the mother frantically searching the playground in the pouring rain "concrete and water". then later in the song, the mother taking the daughters picture off the wall and out of its frame, overcome by the grief of this tragedy takes her life by jumping out the window. the emotional content and sheer meaning packed into these words .... to convey so much in so little ...this guy is an amazing songwriter. hope im not ruining anyone elses enjoyment of this song by altering its meaning for you. this is just how i hear it. |
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