Classic love story true to his western tx roots. One of my favorites as a story, but I think there are alot of songs that are amazing not even listed on this site. I guess I should figure out how to add them, because I have about 8 REK cd's.
You've been checking on my facts
And I admit I have been lax
In double-screening what I say
It wasn't funny anyway
I stand corrected
I stand corrected
No one cares when you are wrong
But I've been at this far too long
To act like that when we should be
In perfect harmony
I stand corrected
I, oh, I stand corrected
Lord knows I haven't tried, I'll take my stand
One last time
Forget the protocol, I'll take your hand
Right in mine
I stand corrected
I, oh, I stand corrected
And I admit I have been lax
In double-screening what I say
It wasn't funny anyway
I stand corrected
I stand corrected
No one cares when you are wrong
But I've been at this far too long
To act like that when we should be
In perfect harmony
I stand corrected
I, oh, I stand corrected
Lord knows I haven't tried, I'll take my stand
One last time
Forget the protocol, I'll take your hand
Right in mine
I stand corrected
I, oh, I stand corrected
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I Stand Corrected Lyrics as written by Rostam Batmanglij Ezra Koenig
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The way this song speaks to me🥺🥺when I sing it I feel like I relate
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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I was at a concert of theirs in SF in which he said that Blake was a graduate student at Standford. Since they were all Columbia students it would make sense that a former classmate went on to Stanford for his MS or PHD.
"Oh your collegiate grief has left you dowdy in sweatshirts Absolute horror! "
best part of the song.
I don't mean to dampen the happy vibe of this song, but I'm pretty sure it's about masturbation... You know, 'new face'...<br /> "Nastiness will cause you doom<br /> Turn and walk back to your room"<br /> "English Breakfast tasates like Darjeeling<br /> But she's too cute to even ask"<br /> <br /> Many of the mentioned lyrics are related to girls and how 'Blake' is attracted to them. I don't know, but that's what I got from it...<br /> P.S. think of "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors and you'll see what I mean.
No,it's not about masturbation.<br /> <br /> I went to a Vampire Weekend concert and Ezra said "this is a song about a guy making a change in his life".
Haha absolutely nothing about this song indicates it's about masturbation.<br /> <br /> Just because all you do is jerk off all day, DeerNeerNeer, doesn't mean that that's what every song is about.
mrsm:
i thought he was saying it like its the name of the the place the waitress works at (and she's knew)? like "oh hey billy, did you notice that Blake's got a 'new face'?" i.e. there's a new hottie working at the corner diner?
ah, i didn't even think of that... it must be correct.
i was thinking that this song was about a guy named blake, and his 'new face' is his new sense of confidence. and at the end his confidence fails, and he is left 'dowdy in sweatshirts'.
jackie, i totally agree. both the harmony on that line and what it means just KILLS ME every time.
english breakfast and darjeeling are both teas! i just learned that today. which kind of adds to the image of this song of prep school kids just laying about in old San Juan (puerto rico). and only the narrator really understands that despite their privilege they are just doomed to be "dowdy in sweatshirts" which is to them the epitome of "absolute horror."
competely agree with jackie! makes me laugh every time.
I totally agree with jackie and you can even hear an audible shivering sound like someone is trying to shake off a nasty feeling towards the end of the song. very clever.
Oh! The horror of being left alone wearing nothing but my cllegiate sweater.. I hope I never get caught wearing that... BTW... I enjoy both English Breakfast and Darjeeling... and I wouldn't want to correct the waitress, no matter what sex. ...Ssome of the best waitressess are the ones that serve you breakfast after a nasty hangover.
whoa, i never thought of it like that. i always thought that he was talking about a girl he was with who was too cute to ask the waiter or waitress if they got the order wrong.
oh and.... the concept blakes got a new face? that always threw me off while what all of you re saying totally makes sense.
but that part itself.. does it mean more like someone is turning over a new leaf or like blake has a new girlfriend kind of girl? I never really got it but i almost feel like its saying he has some sort of new flavor of the week girlfriend.
Mrsm: I was wondering about this too! That exact same thing!
But the idea that Blake's was the name of the place hadn't even crossed my mind =P I thought it was like...either Blake's trying to be someone else, or Blake has a new girlfriend, but I thought "new face" would be a strange and interesting thing to call the love interest =P