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Cubicles Lyrics
It's the tearing sound of love notes
Drowning out these gray stained windows
And the view outside is sterile
And I'm only two cubes down
I'll photocopy all the things that we could be
If you took the time to notice me
But you can't now
I don't blame you
And it's not your fault that no one ever does
But you don't work here anymore
It's just a vacant three by four
And they might fill your place
A temporary stand-in for your face
This happens all the time
And I can't help but think I'll die alone
So I'll spend my time with strangers
A condition and it's terminal
In this water cooler romance
And it's coming to a close
We could be in the park and dancing by a tree
Kicking over blades we see
Or a dark beach
With a black view
And pinpricks in the velvet catch our fall
But you don't work here anymore
It's just a vacant three by four
And they might fill your place
A temporary stand-in for your face
This happens all the time
And I can't help but think I'll die alone
I know you don't work here anymore, I know you don't work here anymore
I know you don't work here anymore, I know you don't work here anymore
I know you don't work here anymore (anymore), I know you don't work here anymore (anymore)
Sometimes I think I'll die alone, sometimes I think I'll die alone
Sometimes I think I'll die alone, live and breathe and die alone
Sometimes I think I'll die alone, sometimes I think I'll die alone
Sometimes I think I'll die alone, I think I'd love to die alone (just take...)
I think I'd love to die (me down)
I think I'd love to die (just take...)
I think I'd love to die (me down)
I think I'd love to die alone, I think I'd love to die alone
I think I'd love to die alone, I think I'd love to die alone
Live and breathe and die alone
I think I'd love to die alone, I think I'd love to die alone
I think I'd love to die alone
I think this song is about someone working in an office, living a dismal life with a boring job. But they fancy someone who has an office cubical 2 cubes down from him. He really likes her and can't stop thinking about her. The only view the office building has is a grey stained window, so he spends his time trying to write love notes and trying to figure out a way to tell her that he likes her. He also fantasises being with her, and doesn't have many friends. He doesn't talk to his co-workers ('spend my time with strangers') and the character in the song sounds generally very lonely.
One day the girl he has a crush on leaves and works somewhere else, leaving a 'vacant 3 by 4' office cubical. The main character gets depressed, and says how the bosses will just replace her with 'a temporary stand-in for [her] face'. He realises that with his lack of social skills and the woman of his dreams gone, he will hopelessly die alone.
this is unbeliveblay excellent are these a small band or wot but i dont care these are superb
congrats small band
long live my chemical romance
when i listen to this song, i can't help thinking of a book called '1984'... in this book, society is led by a party and the called "Big Brother", which controlled completely their lives and acts... sometimes people disappeared without a trace because the party found that they could represent a risk by being alive, and its like is said in the song... "But you don't work here anymore Its just a vacant 3 by 4 And they might fill your place A temporary stand-in for your face
It happens all the time And I can't help but think I'll die alone" and there are also other parts that are related... i dunno, but thats what i see...
i can't believe no one has commented on this song yet. one of my favorite mcr songs. i have a few friends who are internet/web design guys who sit in cubes at big companies and theyre all about bringing home the paycheck and getting their little piece of "the american dream" just like everyone else. this song is all about being different, about not doing that with your life. the "i think id love to die alone" is a reference to just being different and doing what you want to do with your life instead of working for the man and being a carbon copy of everyone else in society. if fitting in means sitting in a cube, i for one want to "live and breathe and die alone" ...
i can't believe no one has commented on this song yet. one of my favorite mcr songs. i have a few friends who are internet/web design guys who sit in cubes at big companies and theyre all about bringing home the paycheck and getting their little piece of "the american dream" just like everyone else. this song is all about being different, about not doing that with your life. the "i think id love to die alone" is a reference to just being different and doing what you want to do with your life instead of working for the man and being a carbon copy of everyone else in society. if fitting in means sitting in a cube, i for one want to "live and breathe and die alone" ...
You are one hundred percent right robqp83, but posting twice doesn't increase the effectiveness of your message.
You are one hundred percent right robqp83, but posting twice doesn't increase the effectiveness of your message.
very insightful. nodded along the whole time i must say robqp83
this song is about obsession and rejection. he used cubicles as a metaphor to any situation where every day you see the same girl and fall in love with her. "It's the tearing sound of love-notes Casting out the gray stained windows " means that he writes love notes to her, but never has the nerve to give them to her, so he throws them out a window. basically the song is about loving someone who you see every day but doesn't even notice you exist.
Awesome song. Thats all i got to say.
Not to compare the bands or anything, but I think this is sort of a modern-day version of Smokies "Living next door to Alice" Great song
this just reminds me of dilbert or office space because it seems you could relate all of mcr's songs to movies and shows