This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
I saw your face
In a pretty magazine
You don't even know
Where you are and what you've seen
Why do you lie?
Do you need to fill us fear?
What's that worth to you?
Oh we used to look up to you
Oh my god I know too well
Being sweet just doesn't sell
If you've got better things to do
I try to run but my legs ache
The photographs that I refuse to take
Oh will it never end
We are alone
Departed from our bones
What's that worth to you?
Oh we used to look up to you
Oh my god I know too well
Being sweet just doesn't sell
If you've got better things to do
Am I hiding again?
Am I hiding again?
Tell me how to live my life
Ooh ooh ooh
And the sun is shining down, yeah
And the sun is shining down
Oh my god I know too well
Being sweet just never sells
If you've got better things to do
Am I hiding again?
Am I hiding again?
Tell me how to live my life
Ooh ooh ooh
And the sun is shining down, yeah
Yeah the sun it's shining down.
In a pretty magazine
You don't even know
Where you are and what you've seen
Why do you lie?
Do you need to fill us fear?
What's that worth to you?
Oh we used to look up to you
Oh my god I know too well
Being sweet just doesn't sell
If you've got better things to do
I try to run but my legs ache
The photographs that I refuse to take
Oh will it never end
We are alone
Departed from our bones
What's that worth to you?
Oh we used to look up to you
Oh my god I know too well
Being sweet just doesn't sell
If you've got better things to do
Am I hiding again?
Am I hiding again?
Tell me how to live my life
Ooh ooh ooh
And the sun is shining down, yeah
And the sun is shining down
Oh my god I know too well
Being sweet just never sells
If you've got better things to do
Am I hiding again?
Am I hiding again?
Tell me how to live my life
Ooh ooh ooh
And the sun is shining down, yeah
Yeah the sun it's shining down.
Lyrics submitted by bing_redboy
Shiny Magazine Lyrics as written by Nicholas John Cester Christopher Cester
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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Ooh, Beatles-esque for sure. Um, this is a guess on my part, but could this song be about some girl whose life went down a destructive path? She's in a pretty magazine (shiny even) but she was so sweet that he can't stand it. Maybe?