| Taking Back Sunday – Ghost Man on Third Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I feel as if this song is about addictions/problems/whatever in general. Anything from drug addictions to sex addictions to depression, drinking problems, and maybe even things like gambling and eating disorders. "Jinx me something crazy, thinking if it's three..." sounds like a distracted line to me, as if the narrator is having trouble concentrating, which could be related to depression/anxiety. I also think it could be related to gambling, rolling the number three to win, mentioning jinxing him into losing. "Then I'm as smooth as the skin rolls across the small of your back." Maybe sexual addiction reference. "If you need me, I'm out and on the parkway, patient and waiting for headlights, dressed in a fashion that's fitting to the inconsistencies of my moods." On a road, waiting to get hit, as a way of suicide. Depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder are often linked in a person. the "inconsistencies of my moods" could mean bipolar disorder. Or these lines could mean waiting for a drug dealer, or maybe even to get money they gambled for. "But whatever I have getting myself into maybe has been slicing inches from my waist." I think this could be related to depression/anxiety [which could cause loss of apatite, or someone who cuts who's cutting area is their stomach], eating disorders, or drugs [could cause rapid weight loss]. etc, since noone wants to hear me go on forever. But I think the general idea of any addiction could be connected to this song, being easy to relate to. Then the, "It's a campaign of distraction and revisionist history. It's a shame, I don't think that they'll notice. It's a shame, I doubt they even care. Noone is to know about this." could be put into the whole suffering from addictions or problems in silence, and trying to find a way to fix it on your own. "This is why we were taught so much better than this... This is what living like this does." I feel like is saying, your addiction is taking it's toll and will eventually destroy you. Growing up, we were always taught to be happy, and stay away from anything that could harm us, and going through that addiction now shows you why. |
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| Fall Out Boy – I've Got a Dark Alley and a Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think song is about Pete's depression that he went through during the writing of From Under The Cork Tree. Seven Minutes In Heaven [Atavan Halen] was. /Joke me something awful just like kisses on the necks of "just friends"/ - A friendship wanting to be a relationship. /We're the kids who feel like dead ends/ - Feeling useless, and in your darkest hour, like you can't make anything of yourself. /And I want to be known for my hits, not just my misses/ - With all the rumors the band's had to go through, and how people pay more attention to that and their personal lives more than the music. /I took a shot and didn't even come close At trust and love and hope/ - Trying to make it through life and feeling like you've failed at everything. /And the poets are just kids who didn't make it Who never had it at all/ - The kids who basically, as said, had nothing, or wanted to take anything from life. Also maybe about Pete/others writing about how he/they feel. /And the record won't stop skipping And the lies just won't stop slipping And besides my reputation's on the line/ - The whole fame thing. Partially self-explanatory. /We can fake it for the airwaves Force our smiles, baby, half dead/ - Pretending you're happy when you're not, and having some kind of secret you don't want to come out, or something about yourself because that'll cause more rumours. /From comparing myself to everyone else around me/ - When you're really self-conscious, you compare how you are to absolutely everyone and everything. I believe the line "Half-dead, from comparing myself to everyone else around me." is a whole line, so if it is, then that's saying how, from comparing yourself to everyone else, you've gotten yourself really down about it. /Please put the doctor on the phone because I'm not making any sense/ - Self-explanatory?/Feeling as if you're crazy. /Blame everyone but me for this mess And my back has been breaking from this heavy heart/ - Being hurt because you care about someone too much. /We never seemed so far/ - Being at your all time low. /I'm hopelessly hopeful, that you're just hopeless enough/ - Feeling, well, helpless. /But we never had it at all./ - Speaks for itself. That's what I got from the song, though to me, it relates on a much more personal level, as it can for anybody, I guess. ~Mew |
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