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Young,
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
Done,
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
oooooohhhhhhhh
Get,
Get the line down
Get the line down
Get the line down
Don't elaborate like that
You'll frighten off the frat boys
Use your baby talk
Frighten off, frighten on
oooooohhhhhhh
This fall, the blues are brown
So turn your horse around NOW
The blues are brown
Missing, mostly waving
Thought as I was
Young, thought I was
Done, thought I was
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
Done,
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
Thought as I was
oooooohhhhhhhh
Get,
Get the line down
Get the line down
Get the line down
Don't elaborate like that
You'll frighten off the frat boys
Use your baby talk
Frighten off, frighten on
oooooohhhhhhh
This fall, the blues are brown
So turn your horse around NOW
The blues are brown
Missing, mostly waving
Thought as I was
Young, thought I was
Done, thought I was
Lyrics submitted by tinylittlewords
Mostly Waving Lyrics as written by Emily Haines
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This song to me speaks about two things: The first obviously being her father's death, and the second is directed to the lines that seems to throw everyone off: Get, get the line down Get the line down Get the line down Don't elaborate like that You frighten off the frat boys, Use your baby talk. Frighten off, frighten on
Emily is having trouble writing about such a difficult subject (her father's death) "get the line down." One of my favorite poets said it took her 20 years before she could write something "good" about her mother's death. The second part of the verse- the frat boy part- I think is a stab at the fans who don't "understand" her lyrics. She feels like she has to make it easier to understand so she doesn't scare off others. Young, thought as I was- this could be about losing a father so early. Certainly she didn't expect it, and perhaps she felt that she was too young for one of her parents to die. Then when the death did happen, it aged her. "Done, thought as I was"- this could also be about how she thought she was over the grief- but she wasn't. My favorite part of the song "The blues are brown" I take to be about death- a vibrant color like blue suddenly turns to brown- waking her to the fact that he father is gone and she had been "missing and mostly waving".
I think this song is about having difficulty saying good-bye to someone you loved that has died.
But that's just what I think. :-)