its amazing how far music can come.. 24 years after it released and its one of the most heartfelt songs ive heard
Losing a whole year
Losing a whole year
I remember you and me used to spend
The whole goddamned day in bed
Losing a whole year
Hiding in your room we'd lay like dogs
And the phone would ring like a joke that's left unsaid
Losing a whole year
Rich daddy left you with a parachute
Your voice sounds like money and your face is cute
But your daddy left you with no love
You touch everything with a velvet glove and
Now you want to try your life of sin
You want to be down with the down and in
Always copping my truths
I kind of get the feeling like I'm being used
And now I realize that you never heard
One goddamned word I ever said
Losing a whole year
Losing a whole year
I took your stuff and put it in the basement
When I found out what the smile on your face meant
I seen you pop that check
Craning your neck at my car wreck
And it always seems the juice used to flow
In the car, in the kitchen, you were good to go
Now we're stuck with the tube
A sink full of dishes and some aqua lube
And I remember you and me used to spend
The whole goddamn day in bed
Hey, bye
Losing a whole year
If it's not the defense then you're on the attack
When you start talking I hear the Prozac
Convinced you found your place
With the pierced queer teens in cyber space
When you were yourself there was tasted sweet
Sours into a routine deceit
Well this drama is a bore
And I don't want to play no more
Whoa why, whoa why
Losing a whole year
I remember you and me used to spend
The whole goddamn day in bed
Hey, bye
Hey, bye
Losing a whole year
I remember you and me used to spend
The whole goddamned day in bed
Losing a whole year
Hiding in your room we'd lay like dogs
And the phone would ring like a joke that's left unsaid
Losing a whole year
Rich daddy left you with a parachute
Your voice sounds like money and your face is cute
But your daddy left you with no love
You touch everything with a velvet glove and
Now you want to try your life of sin
You want to be down with the down and in
Always copping my truths
I kind of get the feeling like I'm being used
And now I realize that you never heard
One goddamned word I ever said
Losing a whole year
Losing a whole year
I took your stuff and put it in the basement
When I found out what the smile on your face meant
I seen you pop that check
Craning your neck at my car wreck
And it always seems the juice used to flow
In the car, in the kitchen, you were good to go
Now we're stuck with the tube
A sink full of dishes and some aqua lube
And I remember you and me used to spend
The whole goddamn day in bed
Hey, bye
Losing a whole year
If it's not the defense then you're on the attack
When you start talking I hear the Prozac
Convinced you found your place
With the pierced queer teens in cyber space
When you were yourself there was tasted sweet
Sours into a routine deceit
Well this drama is a bore
And I don't want to play no more
Whoa why, whoa why
Losing a whole year
I remember you and me used to spend
The whole goddamn day in bed
Hey, bye
Hey, bye
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Losing a Whole Year Lyrics as written by Stephan Jenkins Kevin Cadogan
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ok I just HAD to reference this one line that everyone keeps misinterpreting and it is driving me crazy...
for the few lines that go "now were stuck with the tube, a sink full of dishes and some aqua lube", it does NOT have anything to do with some sort of sex lube that everyone keeps referencing... im 99.99% sure that they are saying that the angry couple is left with just watching tv as all they do together "stuck with the tube" and not a dildo as someone said earlier... and as for the next line referring to "a sink full of dishes and some aqua lube" 3EB is referring simply to the chores of washing dishes (the relationship is just a bunch of petty details and fights)((possibly over who should do the dishes)) and aqua lube is not meant to have anything to do with sex... its simply a detergent (possibly actually real?) that is used to WASH THE DISHES, NOT SOMETHING TO USE IN SEX... man i just had to get that out
but overall the song has sex as a primary issue in the song but its not ALL that its about, its just describing one of those typical not-openly problematic couple that might look fine on the surface but is totally falling apart beneath and the guy in the relationship is saying "well this drama is a bore" (of being with you and pretending its alright despite our petty fights) "and i dont want to play no more" (he doesnt want to continue play acting like everything is fine so he is done with the girl) ((and probably for the better))
gunslinger19....i hope you were joking. if not, i would just like to point out that aqua lube is actually real...it's a brand of, you know...sexual lubricant.<br /> <br /> hilarity aside, this is an amazing song that meant a lot to me during some bad times in my life.