Bank Job

I can almost imagine BnL robbing a bank....hilarious ^__^

this song is freakin' sweet. and I use "freakin'" pretty sparsely.

of course, it's about not taking the blame for a group effort because, hey!, it wasn't their job to take care of whatever went wrong. great lyric: "I'm all for compassion, just not on my dime"

The funniest song on "Are Me", no doubt. I just love the lines, "We all had our ski masks and sawed-off shotguns, but how do you plan for a bank full of nuns?"

I agree with eleventy, it's a song about placing the blame on an individual in a team because they didn't do what they were designated to do.

I just don't get the phone part. Was it just used for the rhyme or is there a point? Is the guy who fouled-up waiting by the phone in jail, or what? Sometimes I think it's about someone who called in what they were doing, but that doesn't make sense since they tell us that person is going to jail...

I could see the "bank job" as a metaphor for a relationship, which would tie the phone part in.

You have a relationship, and it all seems perfect, but then a problem comes up, and you deal with it poorly, dooming the relationship

I also see it as a metaphor for a relationship (as TheThirdDuke does)

And I don't need attitude / 'Cause you knew just what to do / We all did our best now / We all need to rest now / Leave me alone / There's no need to phone

You're giving me attitude, and I know you were right. We tried so hard to make the relationship work, now we just need a break.. so please don't call me.

Somehow most songs can be related to relationships =)

It's pretty much just about a bank robbery gone wrong. He was the driver and he's yelling at everyone because they stuffed up. Then again, it wasn't their fault, and the bank was full of nuns. They should be rich, but now they are on the run, and it's the others fault.

The guy who stuffed up called the police because he felt guilty and now the other is going to give him up and confess and stuff him.

Great song. I agree 100% with what has been mentioned here already. It can be taken literally as a humorous song about a failed robbery attempt, or as a teriffic metaphor for a failed relationship.

This song is just another brilliant example of BNL's whit and humour. Easily the most humourous song on BNLAM. Perhaps my favourite part is the (faint) police siren behind this line: "'Cause you made a choice there Almost sublime"

Frankly I love it.

I love this song. :P I think it's about a group of people who planned out a really elaborate bank robbery, and then the person in charge on the inside had an attack of conscience because the bank was full of nuns (or good people). The leader couldn't bring him(or her)self to steal from these people or maybe even kill some of them. He decided to run and got caught because of it, and the driver (the singer) is pissed off because they lost the chance to actually rob the bank.
"We should be in condos With oceanfront views Instead we're most wanted On the 6 o'clock news" The driver isn't against conscience and compassion, but he doesn't want to let it affect his chance to get rich. "I'm all for compassion Just not on my dime" And at the end of the song the driver is telling the person who screwed up that it's his fault and he should take the blame for getting caught and do the time, instead of ratting out the rest of the group.

Hey Occam's Harmony, is this song not about BNL's hatred of American foreign policy and the Bush administration? That's how I understand it. The bank is metaphorical Iraq and the "robbers" are the American military who went in to take over but "screwed it up" and now they are on the run. America should be kicked back and relaxed with all the oil money but we got freaked out by the metaphorical "nuns" (bombs) and are now trying to pull out. Isn't this song about that?