No Name

This song has amazing lyrics, but I need clarification on this one line..."I forgot the fingering for the barre chords in drop D" It clearly says that on the CD jacket and in lyric sites. However...I hear something along the lines of "I erased my fingernails with (something) and gasoline" Is that just me?

Hello damus. I got bored and I'm trying to procrastinate even more by doing this. You can easily guess who I am by the username probably. On topic. I think he says "I erase my fingernails with lye and gasoline."

yeah so i think it's basically just about some guy who thinks he hasn't done enough in his life and doesn't mean enough to the world/people...

and then there's a few stabs at stereotypes, in reference to tattoos and black t-shirts and the such.

and yeah i think they definitely talk about fingernails not barre chords in drop D right.

Ok, I have no clue what the first verse means, but I think the song as a whole could be about the insignificance of a person. This person in this song obviously thinks he's only contributing to society if he makes a name for himself, hence, "No Name." To achieve that, he's trying to become a rockstar, or to fit into a stereotype, but he dies in the end...

So...the last verse is something like how one should just try to live being themselves, yknow, instead of focusing on fitting into a stereotype and shit, so they'd die knowing they mean something to someone and themselves.

I hope that made sense :)

Yes, the line is "I erased my fingernails with lye and gasoline" The jacket in their CD has incorrect lyrics for that line.

I love The Smashup, too bad they're still relatively unknown.. I saw them live at Warped Tour in 2007. At the end of their show the drummer threw one of his sticks into the crow and I caught it, and met them afterwards & got it signed. They're pretty cool guys too.

This song is one of my favorites, & I basically share the same views on the song as Some_3517.

Love this song - esp the end "Now he's left nothing here on earth, But ashes and a subatomic speck or dirt"

So nice to have a song where a million other ppl haven't added their stuff so it's not like I'm re-hashing what been said over and over again.

Anyway the last part of the song is what I relate to best - not being good enough for anyone to remember you:

So long...So long - Oh well

No one will miss me when I'm gone - as it says, no one gives a fuck

My gravesite will be blank and unmarked - no one knows who you are, so there's nothing to be put on your gravestone. I think this also goes WAAAAY back to when the witches and murderers and whatnot used to have unmarked graves as no one wants to know who they are

And underground alone in the dark - no other graves close by, so very seperate from everyone else\

I'll probably be a little pissed that The world just keeps on spinning like I never existed! - Well it happens. Earth don't give a shit about us :-P

Chorus

You can be sure there'll be no flowers - No one who cares enough to vist the grave

or a name upon the stone - No one to remember me

All it'll say is "Here lies some dead guy who lived his life alone; always afraid to say what might be ugly or unpopular" - Kinda like me: I'll do anything to avoid conflict and getting in ppl's hair

Now he's left nothing here on earth But ashes and a subatomic speck or dirt - Well, that's what we all become, but in this case, there's absolutely NOTHING left behind, no family, no friends, just the shit we all become in the end.

That probly doesn't help much, but that's my interpretation of the song:)