This Is A Call

General CommentDave Grohl said about the song: "The chorus says 'This is a call to all my past resignation'. It's just sort of like a little wave to all the people I ever played music with, people I've been friends with, all my relationships, my family. It's a hello, and in a way a thank you."

More likely than not it's just a list of inside jokes.

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General Commentsearch "minicyn" on Google.com or Dictionary.com and both will ask you if you meant to type "minocyn" which is a shortening of minocycline or tetracycline, both antibiotic drugs. Both of those medications are sometimes given to (attempt to) treat acne. Unless I am greatly mistaken, Grohl was a sufferer of acne, and he might be referring to that. (A cyst is a more painful version of a pimple. Mollusks, a.k.a. snails, are slow. "The cysts and mollusks tend to barter" = the cysts stay around until they get traded away and are gone, but the trades are being performed with the molusks, so the cysts stay for a really long time and are ugly and painful and embarrassing.)

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My InterpretationIt's about being a teenager. Secretly visiting a lonely girlfriend ("Seems that all they ever wanted was a brother") with big balloons and long fingernails.

Minicyn (for acne) and Ritalin (for focus) are common meds used by teenagers.

And he's just trying to get over that awkward phase because it's was a long time ago.

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General CommentThis is probably just a random song that Dave wrote as a creative outlet once Nirvana was no more (*sob*)

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General CommentDisclaimer Girl you have no idea what you are talking about. Go and listen to your Maroon 5 cd.

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General Comment"The chorus says 'This is a call to all my past resignation.' It's just sort of like a little wave to all the people I ever played music with, people I've been friends with, all my relationships, my family. It's a hello, and in a way a thank you."
From Dave Grohl Himself. :P This song's great.

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General Commentit's a song about a bunch of random shit--acne cream, past relationships, fingernails, and ritalin. Fucking great song!!!

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General CommentSounds like it's about a battle with vanity.
"Past resignations": To all the times I have given up, now I am going to fight (he is going to stop nodding when he wants to shake his head no).
"Fingernails, minocin, ritalin, ballons, magic markers(surgery (plastic))": all reference to self improvements or a major change in self knowledge.

Song is probably about Courtney Love in a non direct but very finger pointing kind of way.
This is a Call and I'll stick around seem to be public voicings over Kurt's ex. Perhaps he blames her for everything that was wrong within their circle of friends.

Or it's about having to pay for a cell phone bill.

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Song MeaningNow, the way I see this, his "past resignations" are things he's given up on. Calling things "pretty" and "good" are the way he felt about the things before he gave up on them.
Over all, the song is about having to go to rehab over drug abuse. And then addressing the things that he had left behind in his life, including the drugs.

His resignations:

Visiting = Once a person becomes addicted to certain drugs, they become very detached from the world round them and tend not to interact with friends and family. "Seems that all they ever wanted was a brother" shows that his family missed him quite a bit while he was on the drugs.

Fingernails = Not quite sure about this one..... Certain drugs (such as meth and cocaine) cause the person who is under the influence of them to pick and bite at parts if the body (fingernails, face, ect.) Perhaps this is what it means?

Ritalin = Drug that he's given up on


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This can be a secret, we can keep it good = He's speaking to his drug dealer, he doesn't want his dealer to tell anybody that he's purchased his drugs and he wants to keep it good with him.

Them balloons are pretty big, and say they should ever fall to the ground, call the magic marker.= Well, the balloons represent happiness in life, if his happiness is the ever fall, he is to call the magic marker. The magic marker, as most of you know, is an inhalant, producing an artificial high if its fumes are inhaled. So it basically says he does drugs when he's sad.

It's been too long = He's been doing drugs for so long, it's hard for him to stop.

Ritalin is easy, Ritalin is good, even the ones that watered down the daughter. = He is saying that Ritalin is an easy drug to score, and that it's a really good drug. The "even the ones that watered down the daughter" part refers to how Ritalin, even if it induces highs, it is very dangerous. "Watered down the daughter" is a way of saying having a miscarriage, which many drugs can cause.

Seems that all the cysts and mollusks tend to barter. = Minocin is a type of infection killing medicine often used for sores and openings. Many drugs can cause these to form, so minocin would be used to get rid of infections in them

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General CommentFirst off, fingernails only wanted a “Market” not a marker. This song, I believe, is about the chicks he dated in high school. “Seems like all she ever wanted was a brother”. Minicyn and Ritalin are clear teen meds. We can keep a secret? If her big balloons should ever fall, she can call a magic marker (plastic surgeon). But, alas it’s about all his “past resignation”, or chicks he quit in the past.

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