Clumsy Heart

dive hiring nights:

a place that has open shifts during the night that they're currently hiring for. um, yeah.

I don't have a problem with 'decomposer'... it's just different than e von dahl... give it up already people.

the song starts out when they're seperate, each with their lonely diaries. and at the end, it comes together nicely when they're left once again with their diaries, now full of the things they did when they were a "we." I think it's about touring or have to constantly be gone for some other reason. annnd how that just doesn't work when you're trying to have a relationship with someone else.

I love this song. It is so me...

i basically love this song. i don't think the lyrics need to be deciphered.

my favorite lines from this song are "goodbye is no good, some sailors should stay (i know a dive hiring nights near japan town)". it's kind of like "please don't leave pleaseplease, i know where you can get a job pleaaseee".

I can't believe SFH and the boys fucked this song up so badly. Anyone who heard the original back in the days of the Locals knows how this song is SUPPOSED to sound. Thank god I have several CDs of old Locals tracks...I also think the original What Katie Said, Jackslap Pioneer, and Superman are all far superior to the versions released on albums. Damn...I can't believe it's been four and a half years since the first time I saw these guys play. I liked them better back then, before the egos.

I know a dive hiring nights near Japantown

I dont under stand this line...

dive hiring nights?

I know a dive hiring nights near Japantown

I dont under stand this line...

dive hiring nights?

where can i get the LOCALS album??!!

It's about a long distance relationship, and the difficulties involved within one of such. Especially when you're trying to break it off.

"We, before there was we she only she, me merely me lonely only...in our diaries"

A lot of times when you're feeling down, the situation isn't as bad as you make it out to sound in your livejournal, blog, diary, whatever. hence "only in our diaries"

"...we were in two halves, we didn't quite match she ground down my corners, " Sometimes when you're in a relationship after awhile you realise that perhaps the other person isn't right for you... yet still you try to make it work, usually by changes yourself into something you aren't really, or perhaps by being changed by someone else, hence the ground my corners part. "kissed me for the foreigners spilling their drinks down the nicest clothes they packed" Yet when you see the person after being apart for so long the passion is there and you soon forget all your difficulties, hence the kissing for the foreigners/terminal at the terminal. Reow.

"She's always just inches from me inches on a map, distance or destiny" "calls only calls, cellular fees" These are the two lines that seal it as being about long distance even more then the airport part. These days "long distance" feels a lot closer then it used to, between Internet access and cell phones despite being far away in reality you're still in contact. even if you pay a buttload in cellular fees

just "inches" on a map, despite the fact the inches are miles and miles in reality.

"I know a dive hiring nights near Japantown"

the protagonist of the song on the phone trying to convince his significant other to move closer, hence the vocal filter that sounds like a phone. Probably something like "you should move here, if you need work I know a dive hiring nights..." and probably taken from a real conversation,

That was just what I thought, anyway. If you think of it as being about long distance the whole thing makes perfect sense. :)