Hold your knife against my throat, cut me deeper,
Feel the blood drip down your arm, darling,
I paint this picture on the back of my mind,
But it's fading quickly like an eighth-grade summer romance.

The sleeping pills are mixing nicely with red wine,
Catch them all, before panic hits monday,
Trapped like rats, and oh the water is rising,
We'd use the life boat, but we gnawed through the tubing.

You're a drug, like the gun inside my mouth,
I know it's wrong but I just can't spit you out,
Happiness is a warm pun,
And I love the taste of steel tonight,
I know it happens for the rest of your life,
Not asking, just doing darling.

I know it happens for the rest of your life.


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Eighth Grade Summer Romance Lyrics as written by Mark Thomas Kluepfel

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    i adore this song, love is something that will kill you but you just can't give up. Oh I know this feeling very very well. Its the temptation of suicide to a depressed person. Its the evil that will hurt but you have to do anyway.

    girlygirlyatherbeston June 04, 2008   Link
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    i love this song. it's catchy and i love the methaphors.

    deathmarkdon February 22, 2005   Link
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    I love this song, and I absolutely love Action Action. At first, I thought they were just a fun electronic/indie band, but I've really been listening to the lyrics, and they're so good.

    I like how he plays with the words in the chorus of this song..

    youaresweetinsanityon April 28, 2005   Link
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    i really like this song.

    a fond farewellon May 14, 2005   Link
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    The speaker of this song has this wonderful notion of having a great relationship only to see it crumble before their eyes, along with themself. Metaphors are great, really shows the deterioration of a love that they held so dearly into something thats just painful.

    Did I mention I dig this song?

    drza2000on July 15, 2005   Link
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    Yeah. Really great metaphors... love will kill you only to bring you back to life.

    Rachondalooseon January 15, 2006   Link
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    "you're a drug, like the gun inside my mouth i know it's wrong but i just can't spit you out"

    favorite line, ever its that feeling when you know the relationship is going anywhere, but you cant help but return their messages and call to see if they are going to show up hate to love it.

    jumping___fenceson May 20, 2006   Link
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    ohhh i mean nowhere rather than anywhere.

    jumping___fenceson May 20, 2006   Link
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    this is the ultimate anthem to my 2005 year. To me this song means being so involved with someone yet not knowing how to handle it because you're both growing up and dealing with issues you've had for awhile and nothing is going right and everything is going wrong but yet you cant fix it no matter what knowing what the problems are.

    muggon September 24, 2006   Link
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    Does anyone know what the backing vocals sing during the chorus?

    Nocturnon February 11, 2007   Link

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