It's Warmer in the Basement

favorite song on the album.

about loving someone so much you cant bear to share them...direct quote from Gabe.

yeah i was at a show on sunday and gabe said, 'this song is about loving a girl so much that you tie her up and lock her in basement so you don't have to share her with the rest of the world'

It honestly sounds like a really toxic and abusive relationship, both emotionally and physically and the manipulator is using finances as leverage. Crazy. First time I have listened to this song since I was 14 and I had no clue what the fuck the lyrics were about back then and now that I'm an adult and faced some shit through out the years, the song makes perfect sense.

After listening to this years later and being older and more mature I now interpret this song to be about BDSM.

He's hired a prostitute likely the same one often and has sprung this fantasy on her this time. She is likely reluctant at first. He tries to convince her to go along with it cause he's a good tipper. Doesn't matter if she agrees or not cause no one can hear them.

It's the scary kind of love. The kind where you risk hurting them to keep them by your side. It's slightly creepy, but also very passionate. I LOVE this song!

^^^ I agree. The lyrics, and the way they are sung just say that. I love this song. It seems more to me like a supreficial love. Trying ot control someone beutiful with money, power, and threats. "You can't escape now I've got you locked inside this room You know I tip good And soon, you will love me too" The person has their object of affection locked in the room (a basement I assume). They are talking about how they will give them enough money for their love to love them back. "Don't be upset now You know I get angry too" DOn't get upset about this situation, or I will get angry and... "Don't make me hurt you It's true, no one hears you in this room" I will hurt you if you don't smarten up,a nd act happy. No one can help you now. "This is what you get When you're talking back baby" I assume the person went through with their previous threat. "I never bounce a check So give it up baby" The object of affection is trying to make excuses, that the person wioll give them a fake check, but it's not helping them, because their kidnapper "never bounces a check" "Open up your eyes I want to watch you cry" Can't you see, I want to see you cry. "Come on come on The camera's on" This could be figurative, or literal. If it's figurative, it means, I'm watching, its time, if its literal, it could mean that the kidnapper is actually taping the victim. "Now I'm a changed man But as a boy I was so true" He's not true anymore. Less innocent, and fulkl of intergerity. The world has shown him that money, and power can buy him love (wrong). "The world can't protect you Not like money will" People won't have your back, but you can always fall back on money. "You want some bread now?" The kidnapper holds the victim without any food, the victim is asking. Duh. "Just promise me you'll never make me believe you" I'll save you, if your preachings don't slither their way into my conscieness. Or in simpler words, if you don't convince me to let you out, I'll let you live.
"It's true: no one hears you in this room" Again nothing can help you, it's just you and me. The title of this song fits nicely. I love this song, I can hear it ove,r and over again. Its meaning is really creepy, but I love it. Cobra Starship is rocking some serious sock, right now.

You can't escape now I've got you locked inside this room You know I tip good And soon, you will love me too

i think its a scary man who kidnapped a girl and locks her in a room and tries to force her to make him love her.

Don't be upset now You know I get angry too Don't make me hurt you It's true, no one hears you in this room

there is no chance you will get out basically your doomed to die there

This is what you get When you're talking back baby I never bounce a check So give it up baby

she says no to sex but he gets angry because he takes care of her and she is being unreasonable

Open up your eyes I want to watch you cry Come on come on The camera's on

taking porno flicks for the inernet and the girl is too shocked/scared to coroperate with him and please for the camera.

Now I'm a changed man But as a boy I was so true The world can't protect you Not like money will

idk about htis lol

You want some bread now? Just promise me you'll never make me believe you It's true: no one hears you in this room

stay nice and you will stay alive

does anyone else think of gary heidnik? he kept girls locked in his basement and had sex with them because god told him to create a baby farm. he was a nut. but these lyrics make me think of him.

this song is about rape. it is SO about rape.

i swear to god, most of the CD is about prostitutes and rape. just listen.

that's exactly what he said in brixton on april 1 - cute but yeah, kind've creepy, if you think about it.