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We drew a crowd. The crowd drew the blood. Fawning swindlers. There's a shark in the stream where the newborns are baptized. Who let the flatterer into the gallery on our sweet sixteen? Take him away. Get him against the wall for the witnesses. This is doom in a borrowed suit. It's a pickup line at a funeral. Cannibals along side the catwalk. But it's ok we're got old blood and our veins are rooted to the hornets nest again. New love is tasteless. We're wearing down. This is the year of the party crasher. What is charm? Where are the heroics? What is harm to the perfumed wrists of the stoics? Designer impostors find us twitching in the claws of the snake. A fin is circling around the floor. It appears we've lost our way. The tide is swelling and we've fallen asleep on the shore. Get inside. Someone's yelling fire in the theater. Oh dear god. Everybody stay calm. Tell your husband that his screaming just invited it in. The horsemen are crashing through the gates. We had better learn to play dead. Our hands are reeking of rapture. It's dripping from our chin. The tragedy of infant hearts. But it's ok we've got old blood and our hair is woven to the same hotel again. We're wearing down. This is the year of the party crasher. It's you and me for the first time in history. We're history.
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this song is great. i can see why daryl from glassjaw sung on this one. 2 best lines: What is harm to the perfumed wrists of the stoics? and It's you and me for the first time in history. We're history.
This song is a brilliant take on an old punk rock theme: selling out. I love Keith's mataphors; they're so rich and descriptive, yet leave more than enough to the imagination. For example: "We drew a crowd. The crowd drew blood." describes the young kids just getting into the scene, latching onto the next big thing. "Who let the flatterer into the gallery on our sweet sixteen?" This line is all about bigwigs at major labels and MTV trying to rake in the cash for someone else's work. "But it's ok we're got old blood and our veins are rooted to the hornets nest again. New love is tasteless." This is a call to their roots, while at the same time cursing the kids who pick up the albums just because it's cool according to the dictators. "Our hands are reeking of rapture. It's dripping from our chin." This is at the same time a blessing and a curse of success in the music world. Sure, the money is there, but what of your soul?
awesome, awesome song. Its my favorite ETID song, i love the lyrics and riff.
The sad truth of human nature is that there is nothing in the world more appealing than everything else. When you, like me, live in a city as small as Buffalo, New York, Big Brother is always watching, and when there is someone always watching, coveting will begin shortly thereafter. This song was written when me girlfriend Lindsay and I began dating, about the carnal protective instinct and the curse of knowing all too well what pretenses most people operate under. What you have is what everyone else wants. There are always wolves at the door. This song is about the extent we will go to in order to protect those we love, and keep the proverbial marauders out of something as wonderful as what I had found.
-Keith Buckley AP Magazine (altpress.com) Issue #213 April 2006
did Daryl from glassJAw sing the last part? lol i thought when i heard it "this could be something Daryl from glassJAw would have sung" :D kick ass song
The best ETID song. Period. The riffs are kickass and the lyrics are catchy.
yes, daryl from Glassjaw is singing the choruses on this song. So good.
did anyone ever notice that the people who sound really sure of what the song means, just sound like idiots, and the more modest posters seem to be a closer to the actual meaning. I mean, why do people try so hard to make a meaning, i think it is a little pretencious to put words in other peoples mouths. maybe kieth was writing this song and thinking "there is no meaning to this song at all." just maybe. stop trying so hard guys.
keith buckley is fuckin clever. and spending time to read his lyrics and make meaning out of them is to many people enjoyable n very rewarding. there's clearly a fuck load of time n effort put into poetry like this, too much for it, like u say, not to mean anything. dude maybe stick to songs bout heartbreak n shiz.