Warren wanted a Beach Boys thing for this one, and Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche came in, with Carl arranging the vocal parts. The other harmony vocalists (credited as the "Gentlemen Boys") were Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Zevon's longtime backers Waddy Wachtel and Jorge Calderon, and Linda Rondstadt/Stone Poneys guitarist Kenny Edwards.
Turn on channel 7 at a quarter to 8
You see the same damn thing its just a different day
And no one really knows why this is happening
But its happening
And everywhere you go its just a different place
You get the same dark feeling
See the same sad faces
No one really cares that this is happening
We come into this world
We are all the same
In that moment there's no one to blame
But the world is black
And hearts are cold
And there's no hope
That's what were told
And we can't go back
It won't be the same
Forever changed
By the things we've said
Said
Living in this place its always been this way
There's no one doing nothing
So there's nothin' changed
And I can't live when this world just keeps dyin'
Its dyin'
People always tell me this is part of the plan
That gods got everybody in his hands
But I could only pray that god is listening
Is he listening
But living in this world
Growing colder every day
Nothing can stay perfect now I see
But the world is black
And hearts are cold
And there's no hope
That's what were told
And we can't go back
It won't be the same
Forever changed
By the things we've said
Said
We come into this world
We are all the same
In that moment there's no one to blame
But living in this world
Growing colder every day
Nothing can stay perfect now I see
But the world is black
And hearts are cold
And there's no hope
That's what were told
And we can't go back
It won't be the same
Forever changed
By the things we've seen
Seen
Turn on channel 7 at a quarter to 8
You see the same damn thing its just a different day
And no one really knows why this is happening
You see the same damn thing its just a different day
And no one really knows why this is happening
But its happening
And everywhere you go its just a different place
You get the same dark feeling
See the same sad faces
No one really cares that this is happening
We come into this world
We are all the same
In that moment there's no one to blame
But the world is black
And hearts are cold
And there's no hope
That's what were told
And we can't go back
It won't be the same
Forever changed
By the things we've said
Said
Living in this place its always been this way
There's no one doing nothing
So there's nothin' changed
And I can't live when this world just keeps dyin'
Its dyin'
People always tell me this is part of the plan
That gods got everybody in his hands
But I could only pray that god is listening
Is he listening
But living in this world
Growing colder every day
Nothing can stay perfect now I see
But the world is black
And hearts are cold
And there's no hope
That's what were told
And we can't go back
It won't be the same
Forever changed
By the things we've said
Said
We come into this world
We are all the same
In that moment there's no one to blame
But living in this world
Growing colder every day
Nothing can stay perfect now I see
But the world is black
And hearts are cold
And there's no hope
That's what were told
And we can't go back
It won't be the same
Forever changed
By the things we've seen
Seen
Turn on channel 7 at a quarter to 8
You see the same damn thing its just a different day
And no one really knows why this is happening
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This song is def a twin to "Unfair" (a song she has been quoted as saying is about falling in love with someone who is already in a relationship) so it is presumably about the same person. Given the references to buying an apartment and not being able to see her love interest "after tonight," it's most likely that she's moving away and she'll "wait a day to break the bad news" (i.e. notifying him that she's leaving once she's already gone).
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In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
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There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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Ah. Another one of Good Charlotte's horrid works. There is no meaning in this song. They are just whining.