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| Fireworks – The Hotbed of Life Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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From the track-by-track: "If I started a book club, the first book I'd make everyone read would be All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers by Larry McMurtry. The title of this song comes from that novel, and is a perfect bookend to this record." |
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| Fireworks – Run, Brother, Run Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Doesn't help much, but from the track-by-track: "David Mackinder is one of my best friends and one of the strongest people I know. After I heard him sing this song for the first time, I had to make a few phone calls and tell a few people I loved them." |
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| Fireworks – The Sound of Young America Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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From the track-by-track: "I went to the grocery store and ended up buying an out of season orchid for $5. I didn't anticipate it lasting for more than a week. While in the parking lot, a Southern man stopped me and told me the key to keeping it alive was two ice cubes a week and not a lot of sun. The thing is still alive, even after I knocked it over while doing dishes. In complicated times I am jealous of its simplicity, and of that Southern guy." |
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| Fireworks – The Only Thing That Haunts This House Is Me Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Doesn't help much, but from the track-by-track: "When we wrote this song I always imagined the bridge being played by Queen or some huge sounding Arena Rock band. It's fun to think about Queen using a pregnancy test as a metaphor for feeling empty inside." |
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| Fireworks – Play Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This song is actually called, "Play 'God Only Knows' At My Funeral." No clue why but it got shortened after I posted it.
From the track-by-track: "I used to have a really hard time throwing out birthday cards. Now I have an entire drawer full of them. Nostalgia can be a warm, yet crippling feeling." |
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| Fireworks – Woods Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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From the track-by-track: "When you have a canker sore, even though you know it hurts, you can't stop yourself from licking it anyway. This is probably the most literal song we've ever written, and it took me about 15 years to write the lyrics." |
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| Fireworks – Flies on Tape Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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From the track-by-track: "This year, Michigan suffered the harshest winter it's had in more than 100 years. This definitely created a hotbed for some classic seasonal depression. But once it gets warmer, I think people have a realization that the bare-bones weather just brought out some real feelings hiding underneath. The snow may have melted, but the trash came out." |
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| Fireworks – The Back Window's Down Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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From the track-by-track: "I left community college to tour and play music. I learned and saw things I never would have in a college classroom or dorm, but once it all caught up to me I realized that my normal is as boring as everybody else's normal. Life is relative, and the grass is always greener. That aside, the guitar lead in the chorus reminds me of a Mazzy Star melody." |
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| Fireworks – Glowing Crosses Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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From the track-by-track: "My parents were only teenagers at the time of the Detroit riots in 1967, yet they can still perfectly describe the desolation and eerie silence those riots brought. The only light came from the glowing cross hanging on the side of the hospital, lighting up the front lawns of all the houses in the neighborhood. Although it didn't really mean anything, knowing that people thought it did was kind of powerful on its own." |
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| Fireworks – Bed Sores Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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From Mojan's track-by-track: "I was a classic early-to-mid-20s American male: still living at home and not sure what I was doing with my life. There were a lot of nights that summer that I'd come home late and see the neighbor still awake with the lights on by herself. Her husband had just died in the house a few months prior. Their children had already grown up and moved out of state. At one time, buying that home was the happiest day of their lives, and they were probably around the age I am now." |
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| Stay Ahead of the Weather – No Sleep Till Humboldt Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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This is about the day Evan decided to start touring full time after he accidentally locked himself out of the store he was working in at the time, and while he was waiting for the locksmith, his boss walked by and saw him sitting on the sidewalk. |
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| The Wonder Years – My Life As Rob Gordon Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Does "Bar Bands" mention a Matt? I thought it was Max...
Also, it kinda sounds like "Seton," not "Stevie." But you appear to know more than I!
Lastly, what band has Quentin and Alex? |
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| The Wonder Years – Don't Let Me Cave In Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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If you're going to capitalize Midwest, you should really capitalize Rust Belt, too. Haha. But not THAT important. That bridge that Matt sings is just epic. I find myself thinking about those lines a lot.
For anyone who doesn't understand the Sears Tower line, Soupy said it was about a tower that Sears had in Philly, not the actual Chicago Sears Tower. Obviously, there's a connection because he talks about Chicago, but yeah... They imploded it in the early 90s? I suppose.
Love the emotion in this song. The vocals sound nothing like the Upsides, and honestly, they sound BETTER. Soupy truly is the man. |
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| The Wonder Years – Local Man Ruins Everything Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The title is a reference to The Simpsons. As for the meaning, it seems like it's Soupy's reaction to everyone's feelings on The Upsides. Because he wrote that upbeat record about beating depression, he felt a lot of pressure to be upbeat and positive all the time, but that's just not how it works. Like he said "I'm not sad anymore" isn't a statement of fact, but a battle cry. Instead, "it's not about forcing happiness, it's about not letting sadness win."
And maaaan, when I first heard the start of the song, "The fountain was off," I got really emotional, because I got that metaphor of the fountain in Logan Circle being a symbol of a fresh beginning, and suddenly you go back and see that now it's off again. Sadness/Depression, whatever, it comes and goes. That metaphor lives on. So stoked to hear the rest of the album because I think I'm going to relate to it even more than I did Upsides already. |
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| The Wonder Years – Local Man Ruins Everything Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Seriously? The lyrics were posted WITH the song on AP.
Local Man Ruins Everything
(For Everyone That Relates. We're Not Alone.)
January 2010
The fountain was off. This is the first time I’ve been back to the city in months. I’m trying to hold it together but irony’s found cracks in the foundation. You know, I try so hard to be some great white hope but I can’t shake the feeling that tonight I’m gonna end up shaking in bed alone. I’m not a self-help book; I’m just a fucked up kid. I had to take my own advice and I did. Now I’m waiting for it to sink in. Expect me standing tall, back against the wall, cause what I learned was it’s not about forcing happiness; it’s about not letting the sadness win. I don’t have roses in the closet but I’ve got pictures in a drawer and it’s everything left in me not to stare at them anymore. I walked upstairs and shaved my beard. I felt like I was holding sadness here. |
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| You, Me, and Everyone We Know – I'm Losing Weight For You Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think "straight lines" is a reference to "walking a straight line," as in doing everything proper. I think it kinda refers back to how he "hasn't kept it clean, but now, it's high time for every dirty, awful word" since this song and Shock & Awe go together.
"Heavy loads" could be alcohol or it could be like the line "no matter how light the load, it tends to drag." It's pretty ambiguous but I think it just means the weight on his shoulders rather than anything he would physically need to carry. |
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| You, Me, and Everyone We Know – Shock & Awe Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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You missed the background part of "So, this is a fuck you to Richard Reines" (which is actually the louder of the two parts), where someone says "So, I told the guy 'fuck you.'" |
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| You, Me, and Everyone We Know – A Bigger Point of Pride Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This is probably one of their weaker songs in my mind (but still excellent), but I'm wondering if "ink on your hands" is an allusion to "What Ink Can Really Do." Ben has always said he chooses words carefully... interesting.
I think "By myself" is right, but it does sound weird there. |
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| Brand New – Battalions Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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My understanding was always that song is about when Vin was thinking of quitting the band, so they wrote this song about how the band couldn't go on without him. That's why it's called "The Edge Takes Over for Vin," because The Edge (from U2) would take over his spot in the band (jokingly, of course). |
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| Hey Monday – Hangover Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think it's "No medicine is gonna cut it."
I love this song, but I wonder about the line "All I really wanted from you was a habit I could drop anytime I wanted to." It doesn't really fit in with the rest of the song...
I also wonder if "car crash on the street" is an intentional allusion to "Arizona." |
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| You, Me, and Everyone We Know – Some Things Don't Wash Out Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I fixed the "deep" part, and I, at first, thought nexus was meant to be the phone angle, too, but it's also Latin, so I think he might have been going for that.
I heard "martyred" at first, too, but I still think it's mired... for now. |
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