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Backwards Marathon Lyrics
The early love seems to become jaded
I'm never expecting this
Glance towards the mirror,
Imagination towards the stars
The endless desire for my one and only true love
This will never change I predict
But I do get tired
If only they knew what push we have given
For this music
This happiness that keeps us all sane
Cold nights seem to force questions
Not wanting to accept these thoughts
I have worked and will keep working
To keep the tradition of my one true motive in life
Music
My only love
Once building drum boxes and pretending to be an artist
I guess I'm here but it feels weird
So weird
To know how weird all this can be
It seems to never work out like I planned
Like we planned
One day it will all come together
First place desire in the backwards marathon
Thats all we can ask for
It's raining...it's raining...it's raining...it's raining
When the sun comes up, it's still raining
Slowly we grow
Weeds turn into
Smiling trance
Never mentioned
The early love seems to become jaded
I'm never expecting this
Dance for the mirror
Imagination towards the stars
The endless desire for my one and only true love
Dreams won't let go
Thoughts will not change
Can't watch it fly away
I'm never expecting this
Glance towards the mirror,
Imagination towards the stars
The endless desire for my one and only true love
This will never change I predict
But I do get tired
If only they knew what push we have given
For this music
This happiness that keeps us all sane
Cold nights seem to force questions
Not wanting to accept these thoughts
I have worked and will keep working
To keep the tradition of my one true motive in life
Music
My only love
Once building drum boxes and pretending to be an artist
I guess I'm here but it feels weird
So weird
To know how weird all this can be
It seems to never work out like I planned
Like we planned
First place desire in the backwards marathon
Thats all we can ask for
When the sun comes up, it's still raining
Slowly we grow
Weeds turn into
Smiling trance
Never mentioned
I'm never expecting this
Dance for the mirror
Imagination towards the stars
The endless desire for my one and only true love
Dreams won't let go
Thoughts will not change
Can't watch it fly away
Song Info
Submitted by
in_my_dreams On Sep 17, 2005
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The song meaning is clear. Music has been Tommy's (and the band's) dream and know that he's finally doing what he loves to do, it blows him away. Now he's wondering how fast they'll end up succumbing to shittiness.
I guess one of the things I love about BTBAM is the way none of their lyrics really fit the music they play. But it all fits.
I play them all the time at work and one of my co-workers always says, "Kill! Kill! Die! Die!" and says I have shitty taste in music.
If he only knew. BTBAM doesn't have to worry about being remembered. They'll be remembered and appreciated by the REAL music lovers as opposed to those zombies who go out and buy those overproduced piece of shit Britney Spears records...
This is the only song that puts shivers down my spine every time I hear it.
This band is the perfect combination of soft and heavy shit.
I feel like I'm going through exactly what Tommy has went through. I have been waiting so long to have a full band and I'm the only one in the band who is clear of the busy life so I have to wait ..... "It's raining, It's raining" .... for so long ..... "one day it will all come together", thats all I ask for. thank you tommy for sharing your feelings about this sort of topic, that I'm going through, It feels nice to know I'm not the only one who is going through this.
..its gotta be about the band or tommy or whoever's desire to become a musician..."I have worked and will keep working To keep the tradition of my one true motive in life Music
His one and only true love. MUSIC
for the music.
crazy transition from screaming to just singing they are awesome
This song is so sick, the soft breakdown is unbelieveable. When Me and a Friend started singing it at football practice it started to rain. It was magical.
Its about how the band has gotten so good. but are unmentioned because they are not "mainstream". It's about how all the bands that are considered "mainstream" suck. "first place in a backwards marathon." Backwards Marathon means a race to create the most mainstream music.
and its heading backwards because by creating shitty, poppy music, the progression of music is reversing. i.e. backwards marathon