| Envy on the Coast – Clean of You Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Soo.... basically I disagree with everyone thus far. I could see where the verses would you to believe he's talking about being in a band and his record label and stuff like that but I don't think he meant it like that if you look at all the lyrics as a hole. Obviously, a lot of Ryan's lyrics are based around religion and it makes sense growing up in a Catholic school from what I've heard and that probably consumed a lot of his upbringing and whatnot and I think a lot of his songs talk about religion and people who say they are religious (which is completely different than someones personal beliefs and relationship with God or whatever by the way.) So I think this has a lot to do with Catholic priests and influences manipulating him and others and I think this is kind of told from the point of view where he's telling this boy that he shouldn't believe everything he hears and "I heard you got a sweet tooth, I've got some sugar for your gas tank" basically saying that taking in all the garbage that they're feeding him is gonna ruin him. My biggest reasoning was the second verse. A sheik is a religious officer and I think that verse is talking about how comforting it is to have those people there for you so they think but they don't see things for what they really are. I've heard Ryan say in an interview that he was by no means an atheist or something like that so I don't think anything he writes is about not believing in God but more not trusting the CHURCH. Two different things. | |
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