| Jack's Mannequin – Hammers And Strings (A Lullaby) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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xSvenyx, go to this link if you want to watch the video where Andrew talks about this song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOeAxbhKXfQ Also, you can look back through Absolute Punk's youtube videos if you want to watch the other videos where Andrew talks about various songs from TGP. :) |
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| Jack's Mannequin – Swim Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is definitely meant to uplift someone and just help them get through something tough. I almost felt like, in certain parts of the song, that Andrew was speaking to himself, though. Especially in the part.. "The whole world is watching You haven't come this far To fall off the Earth" To me, it seems like he's talking to himself. Telling himself that he needs to finish this record. Everyone is waiting on the sequel to Everything in Transit. It has been three long years and his fans are all watching, waiting for the next amazing album. He hasn't come this far, he hasn't overcome everything in his past just to "fall off the earth" and stop making music... At least that was my take on some of this song. This is probably my favorite song of the album. Lyrics from this are definitely going on my next Jack's Mannequin tattoo. :) |
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| Jack's Mannequin – Annie, Use Your Telescope Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Andrew said in an interview that this song was in reference to his wife. "It's not exactly her middle name, but something close." Everything else in the song is pretty simple after that. I suppose it refers to when he is on tour and away from her..? The beginning part, I'm pretty sure, refers to in October of 07 when Andrew had to cancel a few shows. Hence, "it started feeling like October." He said in the same interview that he wrote this after he came home and decided he needed to take some things off his plate and focus on the record. "That was the first thing that came out. It was one of the quickest writes in the whole thing." And then, obviously, there is the part about the Dear Jack Movie "so they made my life into a movie." I guess that is pretty self explanatory. But, for some reason, when I first heard that part it almost seemed to me like Andrew somewhat.. resented(?) the video. I don't know if that's the word I'm looking for. But it almost seemed to me that in the line "As if I could forget those years" Andrew wished he didn't have this constant reminder of his cancer. I have seen and read many interviews where Andrew talks about the Dear Jack Movie and I know that he doesn't actually despise this video or anything. But he has said that it is heavy, and difficult stuff for him to watch. And it has to be tough always getting asked questions and reminded about this horrible thing you went through. So, maybe, just for a second, he let a little resentment slip? I dunno. I'm probably wrong. That's just my take on it. |
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| Jack's Mannequin – Hammers And Strings (A Lullaby) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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He wrote this song for his piano. "It was my tribute to my baby" - Andrew Absolute Punk has a series of videos where Andrew talks about each one of the songs on the album, and in the one about "Lullaby" he said that the main reason for writing this song was his piano. He was moving out of his old place and into a newer, much bigger home. So, he was finally able to have the grand piano that he always wanted. However, this meant leaving behind his old piano that was with him through "the dark punk rock clubs of 1000 american towns." This was the piano he had with him throughout Something Corporate's first Warped Tour until their North record. "The intention was, I'm gona write a song for my piano, the last night that I play this piano.. It's about that ... Obviously, you know, there's the conversation about the friend calling, but whatever, it's all really rooted in this idea of the piano almost being its own soul.. and it's connection to me and what it represents" But, in the end, this song is just another representation of Andrew's amazing-ness and his ability to make even a song about his old piano relateable to his fans. To him, it's about his piano.. But to us it's about a relationship, a friendship, a loss, anything we want it to be. |
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