All My Friends

hi there kingmidus please stop abusing song lyrics/the english language thank you

i love the simplicity of this song. most BSS songs are full of different instruments and voices while this song just has a light guitar and a light voice.

i'm not sure what this song is supposed to mean. it sounds like something MY FRIENDS and i would write. maybe the lyrics were meant to swing to anyone and to any prespective. to me it has something that no one else can understand. and to YOU it means something only you can understand.

This is literally about their friends. "In all the songs they wrote instead, your ex-lover is not dead" is a reference to Stars, and "the duvets wish that they were still wet" is a reference to Metric. There are probably other references I'm not picking up on.

Also, it should be "little lives and massive dreams".

i used to think this song was a ballsy beg from broken social scene for all their friends to slow the hell down with getting big, with the stars & metric references after all. mostly because i thought the line was "may i request that you slow down?" either way, it's still an amazing tune, rivaling the most powerful, epic numbers BSS can offer, despite being their most stripped-down song

i dont understand it, exactly, it sounds like all your thoughts could be correct, but this song, just the way of his voice makes me want to cover my ears in response. it is so beautiful, so simple, and plain. it it wonderful.

First, it's "all my freinds are magazines". That being said, I think that the line is a metaphore for the how his freinds all read others ideas and then regurgitate the stolen ideas as their own...a sketchy move to say the least. Next, "I got addicted to the word leave" I would say clearly is saying that he wants to be alone. This may be because he is wise to his freinds theivery. Reguardles he wants them out. Then i think that "And they all request that you slow down, You’ve got to turn it around, And make a save" are the words of all his freinds. He is most likely alienating them in some way...maybe drugs, or maybe a girl. I think alienation is a major theme of this song. Ok, thats all I've got for now.

Do you mean that "the duvets wish they were still wet" is a reference to "Wet Blanket"? I can see how that would work.

But I am sure that this isn't a song about condemning friends and band members. That's ridiculous.

Listen to the song "Your Ex-Lover is not dead" and you will understand this song much better.

I take that back. It is just a reference, and to many of the other artists from BSS.

It wouldn't be as obvious as the other references, but could "There's a whore inside their bed" be a reference to Apostle of Hustle's "Sleepwalking Ballad"? ("I went in to the wrong house last night, and crawled into the wrong bed...")