In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Gunned down in a fight
It was a bloody pleasure
Though I couldn't walk
I'm not dead
I smell the pavement
And the end there's a light
And so pretty women
Though I couldn't see
I'm not blind and inside my mind
Fright night on the radio
Starving junkies on the TV
I ain't got nothing against them brother
I just sit and hang around
While there's Conan Something
MTV's burning up from lack of fever
I ain't got nothing against them brother
I just sit and hang around
I just wish there was something more to this
TV & me
Lift off into space
It's all on discovery
I don't understand why it takes
So long for me to turn
So long for me to turn it off
Fright night on the radio
Starving junkies on the TV
I ain't got nothing against them brother
I just sit and hang around
While there's Conan Something
MTV's burning up from lack of fever
I ain't got nothing against them brother
I just sit and hang around
I just wish there was something more to this
TV & me
Well there's fright night on the radio
Starving junkies on the TV
I ain't got nothing against them brother
I just sit and hang around
While there's Conan Something
MTV's burning up from lack of mercy
I ain't got nothing against them brother
I just sit and hang around
TV & me
It was a bloody pleasure
Though I couldn't walk
I'm not dead
I smell the pavement
And the end there's a light
And so pretty women
Though I couldn't see
I'm not blind and inside my mind
Fright night on the radio
Starving junkies on the TV
I ain't got nothing against them brother
I just sit and hang around
While there's Conan Something
MTV's burning up from lack of fever
I ain't got nothing against them brother
I just sit and hang around
I just wish there was something more to this
TV & me
Lift off into space
It's all on discovery
I don't understand why it takes
So long for me to turn
So long for me to turn it off
Fright night on the radio
Starving junkies on the TV
I ain't got nothing against them brother
I just sit and hang around
While there's Conan Something
MTV's burning up from lack of fever
I ain't got nothing against them brother
I just sit and hang around
I just wish there was something more to this
TV & me
Well there's fright night on the radio
Starving junkies on the TV
I ain't got nothing against them brother
I just sit and hang around
While there's Conan Something
MTV's burning up from lack of mercy
I ain't got nothing against them brother
I just sit and hang around
TV & me
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Well, you could go deep with this song, I think. I read how someone analyzed this song and figured out that is is about Jesus. Gunned down in a fight, (well, maybe not gunned, but still) it was a bloody plesure, since he sacrificed himself for the human race. He can't walk (the nails in his feet), but he's not dead. At the end there's a light. And Jesus will come if we just stop sitting around and watching lousy tv-shows. We should do something that makes sence.
How ever, I don't think that Gustaf and Björn thought of this. I think it's like brideofwalken said :)