| Panic! at the Disco – Behind the Sea (Album Version) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"A daydream spills from my corked head Breaks free of my wooden neck" Okay, so the narrator starts off trying to block daydreams, but he slips up, and the day breaks free. "Left to nod over sleeping waves Like bobbing bait for bathing cod" Sleeping waves, I think, means that someday the waves are going to wake up, things are going to get more exciting, and when they do, he's going to use this daydream to catch fish. Or in the bigger scheme of things, make a living off it. "Floating flocks of candle swans Slowly drift across wax ponds" This part kind of eludes to the Tin Solider; didn't the story mention candle swans and wax ponds? So it could be tying into they're seen as nothing more than toys, or they are actually toys. "The men all played along to marching drums and boy did they have fun behind the sea" I think that since they followed one drum/person so mindlessly, they sunk/marched right off the dock. I think the water has to symbolize death, and since the soldiers are so mindless, they don't see death when they sign up for the war, they just see it as an adventure. "They sang, so our matching legs are marching clocks and we're all too small to talk to god Yes, we're all too smart to talk to god" The soldiers are taking pride in the way they're able to march so perfectly, and uniformly look the same. I think the part about god is saying that they don't believe in him, and some people look at it as they're not important enough to have to look outside their own little world, or they're smart enough not to believe in something that big. "Toast the fine folks casting silver crumbs to us from the dock Jinxed things ringing as they leak through tiny cracks in the boardwalk" The soldiers are eventually going to die, but the people who are on the dock (perhaps as mindless as the soldiers) are throwing valuables for the soldiers. I think the narrator uses the adjective jinxed, because it applies to the irony of the situation. Soldiers are needed for war, and war is usually happening to protect valuable things, a country or goods, and here the people are throwing them off the dock to the soldiers who are going to die.. "Scarecrow now it's time to hatch sprouting sons and ageless daughters" A scarecrow is something that protects over crops, so in a way, the soldiers are like scarecrows. The sprouting sons and ageless daughters part is talking about the kids they've already had, sprouting sons, sons that are going to grow up to an age when they can go to war, and ageless daughter, he's saying the daughters age doesn't really matter because they'll never grow up to an age when they're shipped off to war. "That those watermelon smiles just can't ripen underwater Just can't ripen underwater" When people were kids, they use to hold watermelons up to their face so it looked like a huge smile. I'm assuming the age of the watermelon is connected to the age of the child. So the children going off to war are never going to have ripened smiled because you can't grow up when you're dead. "Legs of wood waves, waves of wooden legs" The narrator ended with this because it kind of sums up the whole message of the song. About how easily, and quickly soldiers marching turned into soldiers dying. |
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| Fall Out Boy – I'm Like a Lawyer with the Way I'm Always Trying to Get You Off (Me and You) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think the song has to do with all the bad memories/experiences he had, but at the end of the day, he still just wants that perfect romance. "Last year's wishes Are this year's apologies" I think this has something to do with every time the narrator tries to put his wishes/wants into action, he ends up apologizing for the outcome. "Every last time I come home I take my last chance To burn a bridge or two" Every time the narrator comes home, he expects it to be his last, and instead of fixing things, he makes them worse. "I only keep myself this sick in the head cause I know how the words get to you" He never talks about how this relationship is going to hell, because it only makes the person upset. "We're the new face of failure Prettier and younger but not any better off" Each generation, people who are getting divorces keep getting younger and younger, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a horrible experience. "Bulletproof loneliness at best, at best" Though he's with someone, he still feels lonely, so he's considering that no matter who he dates that's not going to change the feeling. "Me and you Setting in a honeymoon If I woke up next to you, If I woke up next to you" Even though all of this is happening, he's still wishing for that happy ending. Also, the "if I woke up to you," part could mean that they never sleep together, they always get in fights, or he's away, they always have somewhere to be, so he's saying that if he wakes up next to her, than the relationship must be serious. "Collect the bad habits That you couldn't bear to keep Out of the woods but I love- the tree I used to lay beneath kissed teeth stained red" Out of the woods is a phrase meaning you're out of trouble, so I think the narrator is saying that if the person got rid of all their bad habits, maybe they'd be in a better relationship. But at the same time he has a nostalgia for trouble because all the relationships he had were bad. "From sour bottled baby girl with eyes the size of baby worlds " The narrator is saying the girl was raised "wrong," and she never really looks outside of her own little world. "The best way to make it through with hearts and wrists intact Is to realize Two outta three ain't bad, ain't bad" He's telling himself any relationship is not going to be perfect, so he has to sort of suck it up. |
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