Failure By Designer Jeans

From First to Last

I'm a mess of insecurities
Attention starved with a narcissistic twist
Don't you think that I'm amazing?
Please tell me I'm worth dating
I have every reason not to leave home today

Mirror, mirror
How amazing is my figure?
Your visitors they fall apart before my pictures
Mirror,
How amazing is my figure?
Your visitors they fall apart before my pictures

Please don't believe my words are lacking honesty
I'll be the boy you can't resist
You'll be the tenth girl on my list
I'll write your name upon my chest
These less than three's will never rest
Please don't believe my words are lacking honesty

Mirror, mirror
How amazing is my figure?
Your visitors they fall apart before my pictures
Mirror,
How amazing is my figure?
Your visitors they fall apart before my pictures

You'll be the last girl on my list
Action's just a click away
These things photographs could never say

You'll be the last girl on my list
Action's just a click away
These things photographs could never say

Please don't believe my words are lacking honesty

Please don't believe my words are lacking honesty


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    i really like from first to last, this is the first time i've read the lyrics and it kind of made me laugh and wonder as to whether or not it's a joke, or a sarcastic view at a certain issue? for one, the song title is 'Failure by Designer Jeans'. I'm wondering if FFTL needed to set up a mood through choosing something like that for their title? I think the only serious, honest part of the song is:

    I’m a mess of insecurities Did you start with the narcissistic twist So you think that I’m amazing Please tell me I’m a turn off I have every reason not to leave home today

    It stands out because it contradicts the rest of the song, about how the guy is a player, how he wants to be irresistable etc. The line that I find the most interesting is:

    Mirror, mirror, how amazing is my figure

    Don't you think it reminds you of Snow White and the wicked stepmother who would go 'mirror mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all'?

    I think you could take this song in two ways: One way is that you can take most of the song as this alternate viewpoint that contrasts with the first five lines of the lyrics.. people do this so that people would pay more attention to those lyrics?" Another way is that the song could be talking about two guys - one is terribly insecure, the other is terribly vain... but i think that this isn't the actual concept, since FFTL could have written more on the insecure guy.

    xox

    sainton February 27, 2005   Link

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