| Weatherbox – Don't Say Nice Things Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I copied these lyrics directly from Weatherbox's MySpace blog. I realize that Brian doesn't actually sing "And we all scream daddy together!" but it made me smile so I kept it. Sue me. Anyway... this song is fucking wonderful. I'm unbelievably excited for The Cosmic Drama. |
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| Regina Spektor – The Call Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Regina's voice in this song is so beautiful that it makes me want to cry. The song is perfect for the end of Prince Caspain. But all of her songs are perfect. |
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| Ace Enders – Reaction Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Can't believe no one's commented on this song. It's incredible. I think the meaning is pretty obvious, but I love the straightforwardness because it makes it so easy to relate to... and it's catchy as hell! | |
| Say Anything – Ahhh... Men Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song is beautiful. I hope the album version is simple and doesn't suffer from overproduction ("About Falling", anyone?), because the live version is perfect the way it is. I feel so incredibly lucky to have been at that show. | |
| Weatherbox – Trippin' The Life Fantastic Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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In response to Elsa's interpretation, I think "I will not bow to anything, not a puff of smoke or the flash of a turning mirror" line means he's not going to fall for illusions or tricks. I don't know. I could be completely off. Weatherbox is fucking amazing and this song is INCREDIBLE live. It's so full of energy. I myself am a Christian and feel a tad guilty singing along but it's such a great song that I can't help myself :) |
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| Weatherbox – Cowboy Mountain Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I can't begin to describe how much I love this song. | |
| Weatherbox – The Clearing Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Oh, another thing, I'm pretty sure he's not talking about God. Brian made it pretty clear in Trippin' that he's not the most religious guy in the world. | |
| Weatherbox – The Clearing Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This might sound kind of far-fetched, but this totally sounds like a shroom trip to me. "The chemicals erupted once more" - that can happen long after the first trip occurs. And I kind of agree with challenged_elsa on the whole vision/hallucination thing. | |
| She & Him – Change Is Hard Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| My friend started dating my ex-boyfriend three weeks after we had broken up (we were together for a year and a half). This song describes it perfectly. :[ | |
| Say Anything – Goodbye Young Tutor, You've Now Outgrown Me Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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What onewishfull said. Maxim is his nickname; I've heard people call him that before. And I don't think Max would have a problem being called Maxim if he'll call the object of his desires "Baby Girl". Then again, that could just be the J Records showing through.............. *cough* |
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| The Moldy Peaches – Anyone Else but You Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Me and Adam Green wrote this song sitting in Tompkins Square Park [in Manhattan], sitting on a bench. We didn't write it about each other. We both had other imaginary people in mind. Like our dream best friend/dates. We used to call our crushes "hippies." We would wander around NYC in the cold all night long looking for hippies. I guess this is kind of what we would have sung to our hippies if we ever found them. We didn't find hippies back then, but the song's still nice. I am nine years older than Adam, so he was still kind of a kid back then. It would have been gross if we were singing to each other. It is cute to see Juno and Bleeker sing it to each other, though. It feels right. It's a song for awkward kids. We're old hags now. Pass the torch." - Kimya in an interview with Spinner (http://www.spinner.com/2008/01/07/kimya-dawson-reflects-on-the-music-behind-juno/) |
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| Limbeck – I Wrote This Down Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Robb described this as a "kind of crappy goodbye song". I think it's wonderful. | |
| Limbeck – Comin' From Tucson Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song deserves to be on EVERY road trip mix CD. | |
| Limbeck – Brand New Orange Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Robb said that he used to be a pretty bad waiter and that he knocked over some salt and pepper shakers three days in a row or something like that, and it inspired him. And the Orange County bit is right. He wants it to be new and better. | |
| Say Anything – Retarded in Love (feat. Casey Prestwood, Chris Carrabba & Michael Auerbach) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I am 99% positive this is about Max and Laura June. The first verse: I'm not sure who "they" could be, but maybe it refers to critics trying to find something to make him look worse than he is, a la Orgy of Critics? Maybe? It's kind of a stretch. But the second half of the verse sounds like Max doesn't think he should be taken seriously, and his life is kind of a wreck but it makes for good songwriting. Bleh. I don't know. The second verse: LJK was a photographer, and if you take into account the fact that this album seems to be pretty autobiographical, it makes perfect sense. And the last verse/bridge-y thing make it pretty obvious that he wants her. |
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| Say Anything – Shiksa (Girlfriend) (feat. Caithlin De Marrais) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is a perfect follow-up of The Church Channel. Obviously things worked out between he and Hayley Williams' "character" and now they're together. Cute. | |
| Say Anything – An Insult to the Dead Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I've done a little bit of thinking on the mental masturbation line, and I think it has something to do with Max trying to trick himself into thinking he's okay (though he realizes that it's not as good as the real thing) and it just gets overwhelming. The abortion theory is a possibility, but I'm still sticking with my interpretation. Besides: The infidelities are on account of me And so I cheat on you, I beat on you with words and with actions I will never tell the truth, in debt, aloof Without you I'm a fraction I'm pretty sure at least THAT part has nothing to do with abortion... it's pretty straightforward. |
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| Say Anything – The Church Channel (feat. Hayley Williams) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| What todoublem said. | |
| Say Anything – This is Fucking Ecstasy (feat. Anthony Raneri) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Considering the fact that In Defense of the Genre was meant to be a "concept album" and do what ...IaRB attempted to by following a story line, and that Max has definitely struggled with Bipolar Disorder, I think this song is describing what goes on in his head during his manic phase (I'm bipolar, too, and I feel like I can totally relate to this song, on a less extreme level). "The Church Channel" is the next song on the CD, where he wakes up in a mental hospital and "realizes he's insane again," so I'm pretty sure my interpretation is correct: He didn't take his medication ("Where are my pills?"), obviously. And "Tell me what you think of this gun" paints a vivid picture in my mind of a psychotic Max waving a gun around, which might be an exaggerated interpretation but entertaining nonetheless. "... I live in hyperspeed/ I shall not live/ I shall not breathe again/ This is fucking ecstasy/ this is fucking leprosy/ it's like they're fucking testing me/ this is fucking ecstasy" is a PERFECT description of mania - you feel invincible and wonderful and really "alive", and even though it's still an illness, it's still fucking ecstasy. Obviously I devote too much of my time analyzing lyrics. |
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| Say Anything – That Is Why Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The album version with updated lyrics is good, but I liked the live acoustic version with the cute lyrics more. Max doesn't have many sweet songs, so I was pretty disappointed to hear the change on the album (though I was impressed how he changed only a few words and managed to completely switch the meaning of the song). | |
| Say Anything – An Insult to the Dead Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The idea that Max regrets having sex is laughable, i.e. "Eat, sleep, FUCK, and flee - in four words, that's me", "When I watch you, I wanna do you...", "That blissful night I knelt between your legs..." But here's my [lengthy] interpretation, with some lyrical corrections: Failure is angular. It isn't circle-shaped And every fucked mistake's unmade When I abandoned her And with my wand-like sex, I cast a horried hex I laid a curse on her, a curse on her Another wasted verse on her, gave birth to her" He's mistreating a girl he's dating (or fucking), and is fully aware of the power he has over her. "Oh God, forgive me Moses, Jesus, Allah I have made such an awful regret of today I have made such an awesome regret" He regrets his behavior. Fairly self-explanatory. "I could be more than this With all the time I have, I am insult to the dead You should be over this The infidelities are on account of me And so I cheat on you, I beat on you with words and with actions I will never tell the truth, in debt, aloof Without you I'm a fraction." He's wasting his life away, rather than taking advantage of the time he has. He's cheated on this girl and walks all over her, because he's got a whole bunch of inner turmoil and doesn't know how to deal with it. And even though he's being a dick to her, he secretly needs her as badly as she needs him. Oh God, I have made such an awful regret of today I have made such an awesome regret Too bad this won't come easy where I stay Where I lay in my bed of needles, where I play Like a bad child on a baby's birthday" (I don't hear the "Too bad this won't come easy" part in the song, but I don't have the lyrics in front of me so I'll assume they're in the CD sleeve) Again, he regrets his behavior, and he's being self-destructive ("in my bed of needles") and selfish ("I'm a bad child on a baby's birthday"). "I'll take a permanent vacation I've got two months to live And all the mental masturbation Is just too much to give So I'll go down to where the river Flows into the sea And you can bathe me in your body fluids You can rescue me" This verse I haven't entirely deciphered, so this is kind of a wild guess. It sounds like he wants to get away from all this crap and start living life to the fullest, or whatever. The "mental masturbation" and "bathe me in your body fluids" parts are what throw me off - there seems to be some sexual undertone, although the body fluids could also be... gross things, so maybe he realizes he needs to be humbled before he can be rescued. As Fight Club so eloquently states, "It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything." Of course, I could totally be off-base with this, but it makes sense in my head. Haha. |
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| Say Anything – An Insult to the Dead Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The idea that Max regrets having sex is laughable, i.e. "Eat, sleep, FUCK, and flee - in four words, that's me", "When I watch you, I wanna do you...", "That blissful night I knelt between your legs..." But here's my [lengthy] interpretation, with some lyrical corrections: Failure is angular. It isn't circle-shaped And every fucked mistake's unmade When I abandoned her And with my wand-like sex, I cast a horried hex I laid a curse on her, a curse on her Another wasted verse on her, gave birth to her" He's mistreating a girl he's dating (or fucking), and is fully aware of the power he has over her. "Oh God, forgive me Moses, Jesus, Allah I have made such an awful regret of today I have made such an awesome regret" He regrets his behavior. Fairly self-explanatory. "I could be more than this With all the time I have, I am insult to the dead You should be over this The infidelities are on account of me And so I cheat on you, I beat on you with words and with actions I will never tell the truth, in debt, aloof Without you I'm a fraction." He's wasting his life away, rather than taking advantage of the time he has. He's cheated on this girl and walks all over her, because he's got a whole bunch of inner turmoil and doesn't know how to deal with it. And even though he's being a dick to her, he secretly needs her as badly as she needs him. Oh God, I have made such an awful regret of today I have made such an awesome regret Too bad this won't come easy where I stay Where I lay in my bed of needles, where I play Like a bad child on a baby's birthday" (I don't hear the "Too bad this won't come easy" part in the song, but I don't have the lyrics in front of me so I'll assume they're in the CD sleeve) Again, he regrets his behavior, and he's being self-destructive ("in my bed of needles") and selfish ("I'm a bad child on a baby's birthday"). "I'll take a permanent vacation I've got two months to live And all the mental masturbation Is just too much to give So I'll go down to where the river Flows into the sea And you can bathe me in your body fluids You can rescue me" This verse I haven't entirely deciphered, so this is kind of a wild guess. It sounds like he wants to get away from all this crap and start living life to the fullest, or whatever. The "mental masturbation" and "bathe me in your body fluids" parts are what throw me off - there seems to be some sexual undertone, although the body fluids could also be... gross things, so maybe he realizes he needs to be humbled before he can be rescued. As Fight Club so eloquently states, "It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything." Of course, I could totally be off-base with this, but it makes sense in my head. Haha. |
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| Gregory and the Hawk – The Bolder Thing to Do Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The way her voice breaks when she sings "The frustration I see when I tell you I'd like some company/ breaks my heart/ How can you be so impartial?" kills me. Amazing song. |
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| Say Anything – Sorry, Dudes. My Bad. (feat. Chris Conley) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I love Chris' "cameo" in this. In response to soliciting_sympathy's comment, I think Max's apology was more than enough closure. He can say "sorry" more articulately than anyone on the planet, I think. And as for the waffle house part, there's definitely some mention of crack, but I can't entirely decipher what he's saying. (Hopefully I'm right, because if I'm totally off-base I'll feel like an idiot) |
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| Dashboard Confessional – This Bitter Pill Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Several points I'd like to make: 1. Dashboard Confessional is not punk. Black Flag is punk. Minor Threat is punk. DC is not emo, either. Ever heard of Sunny Day Real Estate? Jets to Brazil? Texas is the Reason? *sigh* Please quit throwing around those labels because they're incorrect. 2. I was too impatient to read all four pages of interpretations, but from what I DID read, no one seemed to realize that a "bitter" pill is an idiom. A "bitter pill" is something difficult to accept. Put that into the context of the song and it makes things a bit more obvious. My interpretation is as follows: The person he's referring to in the song has spent a whole lot of time avoiding the consequences of a mistake he/she made, and instead of accepting defeat, he/she lashes out and shifts the blame to other people. Eventually this denial begins to "wear off," leaving this person deflated, remorseful, and lonely. As for the "begging to be used..." part, I'm not entirely sure, but assuming the bottle is filled with pills, I think this person is probably too scared to actually "use" the bottle - instead, he/she will resort to the other forms of self-destruction associated with a complete and utter loss of hope. 3. I liked Dashboard more before he got the full band. The predominantly solo stuff is more honest, I think. 4. Oh, and this is a beautiful song. |
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| Say Anything – Spores Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Okay, so after hearing Say Anything's new songs, I was a little disappointed at the change in style - they suddenly got "trendy". Regardless, I really do like this song. Max has always been really good at writing really bitter and/or sad breakup songs. "You know I still know how, how much your love costs. You know when I peel back your layered lip gloss. You know I still know how to fuck your eyes crossed. It's your loss. It's your loss." And I LOVE that part. You can't have a Say Anything song without some reference to sex. Haha. |
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| Jonah Matranga – Every Mistake Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Such a beautiful song. He played it last night at the Chain Reaction and I was completely blown away. I get the feeling that it's directed towards his daughter, but it's applicable to anyone you care about. Jonah is amazing! | |
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