| The Spinto Band – Oh Mandy Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is another upbeat song to sad lyrics from those Spinto's I think this song is about a guy who loves a girl who does not love him back, to the point he drowns himself. "It's looking quiet as I jump in So I can finally hear you scream" This line is the most upsetting, it's like the only attention he can get from her is when he kills himself. Excellent song though. |
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| Reuben – Deadly Lethal Ninja Assassin Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| *I* Made you, not you made me, sorry | |
| Reuben – Deadly Lethal Ninja Assassin Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It's actually "You made me, Trent Reznor spinnign on his back with a motorised action" and its a red scarf with no motorised action. | |
| Fall Out Boy – Sugar, We're Goin Down Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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The song Sugar, We're Goin' Down, by Fall Out Boy, is, like many of their songs, about relationships - but this one has taken a very bad turn. It opens with "Am I more than you bargained for yet?" which is the narrator asking the girl he sings about if this is what she was expecting of him. As the song progresses, it becomes obvious that the girl was not expecting this at all. "I've been dying to tell you anything you wanna hear, 'cause that's just who I am this week," is the next line. This shows the narrator's feelings for the girl - he wants to appease her and make her happy by telling her all the things she wants to hear from him (or anybody else). It also shows that the narrator is maybe something of a split personality - or, more likely, he's changing himself to suit her; whenever she wants something new or different, he changes his own personality for her. "Lie in the grass next to the mausoleum," is talking about the dates the two went on. It's popular for young people to spend time alone together in peaceful places, and a graveyard is an obvious choice for some. "I'm just a notch in your bedpost, but you're just a line in a song," tells us how this relationship started to go wrong. The girl obviously finished things, and the narrator became just another "notch in [her] bedpost" - another memory. He's saying that she, in turn, is now just a line in a song (this song he's singing), because she's a memory, just like him. "Drop a heart, break a name," is a play on the clichés 'drop a name' and 'break a heart'. It also suggests that the girl dropped his heart - which, metaphorically, would shatter it. She also broke his name - his reputation - by saying things about him to other people. "We're always sleeping in and sleeping for the wrong teams," says that firstly, the two of them were lazy, perhaps, and 'slept in' when they should be out doing things; secondly, they're now 'sleeping for the wrong teams' - at least she is; she's now sleeping with someone else, which in the narrator's eyes is the wrong team. The chorus begins, "We're going down, down in an earlier round," which says that the two of them are literally going down - in other words, dying. 'In an earlier round' says that it is happening before it's meant to - before their times. "And sugar, we're going down swinging," says that they're not going out without a bang. The nickname 'sugar' is affectionate yet rather patronising, showing that the narrator still has very strong feelings for the girl, but is, in his anger and depression, not in total control of his emotions any more. The "we" doesn't necessarily mean he's going to kill her; he could also be saying that, in killing himself, as happens later in the song, he'll bring her down too, because it will be her fault. "I'll be your number one with a bullet, a loaded God complex, cock it and pull it," is the next line. It says that now, with a bullet, he will be the only thing that matters to her, because he's going to kill her - and in the moments before he does, he'll finally be the only important thing in her life. The reference to a God complex says that he is playing God by doing this. "Cock it and pull it" has the obvious gun-related meaning. "Is this more than you bargained for yet?" has a similar meaning to the first line of the song. He is asking if the girl was expecting him to do something like this. "Oh, don't mind me, I'm watching you two from the closet," says, sarcastically, that there's no need for her to pay any more attention to him, now that she's ended the relationship. The second part of that line has two possible meanings - one, that he is literally stalking her, and watching her actions with her new boyfriend; two, probably the more likely explanation, he is imagining exactly what she is doing with the new boyfriend (this would be easy for him, as he has of course experienced what she is like already). "Wishing to be the friction in your jeans," is obvious; he wants to take the new boyfriend's place. "Isn't it messed up how I'm just dying to be him?" he asks her, maybe for reassurance, maybe just stating a fact - he knows he's messed up for wanting her so much. For a second time, the "I'm just a notch in your bedpost..." line is repeated, which shows that the narrator is making himself believe that all he is to her is a memory, and all he wants her to be to him is the same - a memory. He is probably psyching himself up to do it. "Take aim at myself, take back what you said", the backing vocals during the last choruses, have an obvious meaning. He is now pointing the gun at himself, to commit suicide. Whether he actually killed the girl or not is now doubtful - all the things he has said beforehand could easily be him convincing himself that he's going to do it, but he actually doesn't; or it could also be him imagining killing her. "Take back what you said" suggests that the girl has said something, maybe quiet recently, that's prompted him to do this. Despite the song's first impressions, of an upbeat track, it is actually a very dark - and rather upsetting - tale. |
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| Fall Out Boy – Sugar, We're Goin Down Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| God complex means playing God you fool. | |
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