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Alkaline Trio – Settle For Satin Lyrics 20 years ago
As one of the oldest Alk3 fans (in age), this song is about settling. Basically, the older you get, the more you realize how people settle for something less than they imagined they ever would. How many people stay in relationships or jobs or cities - because it's 'comfortable'. And that is all they have known? I see it everyday everywhere. People giving up on dreams and faking it (affectations) because it's easier to settle than to get what you really want. Think about it.

Fyi -- here are the lyrics from the CD liner:

SETTLE FOR SATIN

It's not so much a storm
But just a cloud that lives inside of me
He doesn't stir so easily these days
But when he wakes he goes the distance
In a marathon of days too long
Open containers that sing songs
You'll never dream again but you can pray

I guess we all settle in to what we know
I guess we always settle in, we know
That there is comfort in our world
Where darkness is the only thing we see
And cold is all we have to breathe
Where affectations keep us company
Where the lies we tell to eyes that roll in doubt
Are somehow out of our control

It's not about the scars
But more the crowds that walk all over me
They don't give up too easily these days
But when they break they go to pieces
Fall apart right here in North Side bars
Under a sky that knows no stars
You'll never shine again but you will stay

I guess we all settle in to what we know
I guess we always settle in, we know
That there is comfort in our world
Where darkness is the only thing we see
And cold is all we have to breathe
Where affectations keep us company
Where the lies we tell to eyes that roll in doubt
Are somehow out of our control

That there is comfort in our world
Where darkness is the only thing we see
And cold is all we have to breathe
Where affectations keep us company
Where the lies we tell to eyes that roll in doubt
Are somehow out of our control
We lost control

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Bruce Springsteen – 4th of July Lyrics 21 years ago
some corrections:

The title is actually "Sandy (Fourth of July, Asbury Park )"

In curious, it is "This pier lights..." instead of "The Pier lights"

First stanza:

"Forcing a light into all them stony faces left stranded on this warm July."

"And the boys from the casino dance like with shirts open like Latin lovers on the shore, chasing all them silly New York virgins, trying to score"

second stanza
"I got on it last night and my shirt got caught, man it kept me spinning, didn't think I'd ever get off."

"Running, laughing, 'neath the boardwalk, ah with the bosses daughter"

third stanza:
"Sandy, that waitress I was seeing lost her desire for me. I spoke to her last night - she said she won't said herself on fire for me anymore. She worked at that joint under the boardwalk she was always the girl you saw boppin down the beach with the radio. The kids say last night she was dressed like a star in one of those cheap little seaside bars and I saw her parked with loverboy out on the Kokomo.
Did you hear the cops finally busted Madame Marie for telling fortunes better than they do? For me this boardwalks life's through, babe. You ought to quit this scene too."

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Jimmy Eat World – The Most Beautiful Things Lyrics 23 years ago
thank xpankfrisst. i wondered if that was it...but just sung with a certain tone...to sound like way run....u gotta love the passion with with jim sings :0)

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Jimmy Eat World – No Sensitivity Lyrics 23 years ago
This is probably my favorite JEW song! loved it since the moment i first heard it...and it just gets better and better the more i listen....Anyway, I am a chick and I can relate to it a lot in my own relationships....to me kisses are one of the most passionate things...and when you give that part of yourself to someone and they end up breaking your heart...then you're left wishing you never gave that away----'I'M TAKING MY KISSES BACK. I WANT MY KISSES BACK FROM YOU!' im taking my passion back, im taking my pride back, im taking my heart back and so on. Anyway, meanings are pretty much subjective to each person-thats what makes a song great!!!

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Jimmy Eat World – The Most Beautiful Things Lyrics 23 years ago
i agree this song is one of JEW's best. BUT i cant figure out this one part!!!! Does anyone have any thoughts on what he is saying in this song over and over...sounds like "way ran, way ran" ??? let me know---comment here or email me at: cbacci@yahoo.com

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