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| The Sugi Tap – Pick Up the Pieces Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Selfisheather, I think you're...way off.
The term "Son of Sam" doesn't have relation to Manson or Bundy, only Berkowitz, who didn't rape his victims. Berkowitz was a very detached killer. It wasn't about power or revenge, it was about attention for the Son of Sam.
For anyone who's focused on Max's writing for any real length of time, it increases the unlikelihood of this song being as you described it. Max has always written about personal experiences. The farthest he's strayed was "Horrorscope." And all of his post-Eve 6-breakup writing is incredibly sincere, and incredibly personal.
Also, why would Max write such a sympathetic song about such a bad person? And I didn't think "secret love" was synonymous with rape. Plus, there are the live lyrics; the brief coda Max adds onto the song. "Up on the altar; I'm sinking in." Face it, Max is a very skilled and very cryptic writer. He writes songs to express his feelings towards certain people that have affected him. Being able to stretch connections between the connotations of certain phrases and terms doesn't give any credibility to the argument.
Also, what's your rationale for thinking this is about "Friend of Mine"s attacker? Anyway? |
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| The Sugi Tap – Pick Up the Pieces Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Max has been known to put references in songs that have personal, rather than universal meanings. The line "Wham, bam, Son of Sam" probably makes loads of sense to him, but no one else would get the same meaning. |
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| Eve 6 – Inside Out Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Apparently, Max just wrote the song quickly in study hall one day. If you can't find a deep, hidden meaning within 5 minutes of musing, then you probably won't find it. A lot of the lines are there just for the sake of being there. Max writes his own little inside jokes into songs and he understands them, but no one else will really interpret what he writes the way he wrote it. According to him, though, the song is about getting out of a relationship long after you realized you should have, but never having the courage to end it yourself.
Oh, and to childlikewild72, I believe he's just saying that he may have been raised in So Cal, but he won't let that define who he is. The "states" in question could also be US states. He lives in the state of California, he went to high school in the state of California, but he was born in the state of New York, if I'm not mistaken. |
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| Eve 6 – Here's To The Night Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Yes, it's about a one night stand, it's not romantic. More like the initial infatuation with someone. It's also, in my opinion, Eve 6's worst song. People listen to the song and get a preconceived notion about the band, and they adopt the song as some poetic piece of gold. Live, the song is slightly better since it has some energy, but it doesn't belong on "Horrorscope," it belongs on a b-sides album or a Japanese import WITHOUT the David Campbell strings and WITH an electric guitar. |
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| Eve 6 – Girlfriend Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Someone correct these, they're horribly wrong. Anyway, yes, it's about a breakup, apparently written in late 2000 or early 2001, and went through at least one very different draft before becoming what it is now. It's so much better live. |
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| Eve 6 – Inside Out Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Brush the Dust Away, the song is called "Inside Out." I don't get why so many people have an issue with it; if you're really a fan of the band, and you really bought their CD and didn't just pirate it, then it'd be easy to see, right there, track 2, "Inside Out." |
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| Eve 6 – Anytime Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Eve 6 will be playing this song when they begin touring again. =D. I am quite happy. |
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| Eve 6 – Arch Drive Goodbye Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I highly doubt the song is about a break up caused by alcohol. It seems more that, with the paths these two people have chosen in life, a great strain has been put on their relationship, and they have reluctantly come to the conclusion that, it's all or nothing, and their connection just wasn't meant to be, and rather than force something they know is lost, they're deciding (or at least, the narrator) that there is nothing left to do but move on; regretfully so. |
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| The Sugi Tap – BOLD Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"I'm humble as a ghost./ I'm barking like a dog./ I'm giving up the ghost./ I'm howling like a dog."
Should be:
"I'm hollow as a ghost./ I'm barking like a dog./ I'm giving up the COAST./ I'm howling like a dog."
I'm not 100% about the humble/hollow/hallow thing, but he's definitely saying "coast."
Anyway, this sounds like a more Eve 6 themed song, as Sugi songs aren't really down-trodden, but nonetheless, this is a good song. I think the meaning's obvious, this guy is coming undone, and falling apart. Perhaps a precursor to "Mr. Bones?" |
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| The Sugi Tap – Good Associate Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Kind of a depressing song to begin with; "Good Associate" seems to be about a person who has let the negative side of life begin to overcome him or her. His or her optimism is gone, and all that's left is a nihilistic outlook. |
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| The Sugi Tap – Little Tiny Everything Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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It's "Nipped up cat" not "nicked up cat."
This song is pretty obviously about a girl, and how happy she makes the writer, in spite of both of their odd qualities. |
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| The Sugi Tap – Mr. Bones Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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An old Brotherhood of Lost Dogs song. It's allegedly about, or influenced by the movie "Office Space." It's all about freedom from a life that was restrictive or unsatisfying, and the hunt for something better. |
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| The Sugi Tap – Pick Up the Pieces Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Beastly, I think you're way off. The only female mentioned is the subject's mother, not a girlfriend.
I think the song is about a friend, associate, whatever, of the writer (Max) who has detached himself or herself from his/her family and friends. The subject is going down a destructive path, and deteriorating, and Max is writing to try and spark the subject to get his or her life back together. IE: Picking up the pieces. |
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| Third Eye Blind – Gorgeous Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I'm really amazed that this song hasn't been put on an album. Granted it would've been a bit out of place on OOTV. |
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| Eve 6 – Tongue Tied Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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It's about one of Max's friends in high-school. He wasn't stupid, but had a lot of emotional problems and was thusly put into like, special programs and all that, that, coupled with Max's own high-school experiences. |
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| Eve 6 – Hokis Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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A scantron is a form of test, it's a thin rectangular sheet, usually with green markings with questions 1-50 and 50-100 on each side, just the number and letters A-E in rectangles. The sheets are scanned through a machine with the answers (A-E) put in, and it grades the paper, much more time-saving than hand-grading. The lyric is probably in reference to how difficult it is his for Max, since you can't really bullshit past a machine. It's right or wrong, no middle-ground. |
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| Eve 6 – Girl Eyes Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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"Fok Karina" was just written on a wall that Max saw, it has no deeper meaning than that, just referencing a time and a place. |
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| Eve 6 – Leaving on a Jet Plane (John Denver cover) Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The lyrics aren't correct. The second part of the second verse, instead of "'Cos every place I go I'll think of you/ And every song I sing I'll sing for you/ And when I get back I'll bring your weeding ring." Max sings "Third verses are such a bitch/ One of these days I will learn it/ When I get back I'll bring your wedding ring." And appropriately, the third verse isn't sung at all, rather, the first is repeated albeit the word order slightly mixed. |
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| Ima Robot – Black Jettas Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Apparently one of the band members (Alex, I think) dated a girl who had a black Jetta, after the nasty break-up, she and her friends (who also had them) would drive by the apartment and just honk viciously to them, and it made Alex paranoid everytime he saw one. |
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| Ima Robot – 12=3 (Here Come the Doctors) Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I think it's about child-birth and abortions. The title alludes to that. Person 1 and person 2 together make person 3. (12=3.) The chorus seems to be from the perspective of an aborted fetus. "Kiss me goodbye, for the doctor's are coming. 'Cos I wasn't born..." Fits the theme, though the obscurity of the lyrics makes t hard to nail down completely. |
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| Butch Walker – Sunny Day Real Estate Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Actually, no. It's the intro to a CD, and an excerpt from a song entitled "Sunny Day." This is just the intro, so the title was lengthened, I suppose to avoid confusion. More likely a tribute than a mockery. |
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| Butch Walker – Sunny Day Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The first verse is very similiar to a line from "Get Down." "Messed up hair, messed up nose from the cocaine habit that no one knows about." Very nice song though. |
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| Butch Walker – Last Flight Out Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Amazing song; should have been on "Letters." Obviously it seems to be about distance between two people with a connection to one another, simple, though there's probably more to it. |
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| Eve 6 – Promise Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The original version was better, longer, too. It was inspired when Max drifted away from a crowd at a birthday party, according to him. (A reference was in the original version.) And is about "Not knowing what the future holds, and not promising anything to anyone." |
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| Eve 6 – On The Roof Again Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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A hypothetical scenario for a friend of the band who got married young. Like much of Horrorscope, this dwells in the surreal and a fantasy-world, not real experiences. The lyrics were actually rushed and written in the eleventh hour, with surprisingly good results. Also the last song played at their last concert, ever. |
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| Eve 6 – Nightmare Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This song is a really underrated one from Horrorscope. And along with "Girl Eyes" the only one that has no existing record of every being played live. I agree that the song is probably about masturbation or sexual deviancy of some kind, though it was a rush-job. During the recording sessions, the band made up songs as they went along, and you can tell that this lacks the real finished touches of songs like "Promise" or "Nocturnal" from the same album. |
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| Eve 6 – Amphetamines Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The girl in question got involved with drugs and got "way too skinny." Quote unquote. Hence the title. |
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| Eve 6 – Saturday Night Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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"This song is about being bad and knowing that you're being bad." - Max Collins.
The band apparently really dislikes this song, now. |
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| Eve 6 – Nocturnal Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This is just a reworked version of "Nocturnal Emission" from their debut EP under the name "Eleventeen." That song delt with being alone and wanting a girl, and the perspective changed here to actually having the girl for one reason...Max had a girl during the recording of the album. Both versions are great songs, though there's something lacking from each that's present in the other. |
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| Eve 6 – Bang Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The Vladimir thing is just a saying. Like "See ya later, alligator." The song itself is about hsi girlfriend (at the time) I believe her name was Sonia. As was "Rescue" on the same album. Though unlike "Rescue," "Bang" was only played a few times live, and then dropped out of their setlists. |
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| Eve 6 – Anytime Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The meanings so far have been pretty much the same as mine. Oddly enough, as popular as it is, Eve 6 has always refused to play it live, citing that the vocal strain is too much for Max, though it's possible that the song also conjures bad memories as it is about the failing part of a relationship, not post break-up, not a love song, but sort of in that desperation phase. They have played it live once though, right after it was released. |
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| Eve 6 – Jet Pack Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The song is, as people mentioned, about homosexuality. Only the subject isn't questioning it, he simply isn't revealing it. Max Collins, the writer, has stated that it's about a friend of his who was really popular with women, but always preferred his company instead, and the song was written just as a way to say how obvious it was to him that his friend is in love with him. (The title also apparently came first. "What inspires you?" "Transport backpacks.") |
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