Hold Up

This is a great rock-out song. "Hold up" stirs up thoughts of The White Stripes' "Little Room".

Good rock riffs and catchy lyrics. I like this song a lot.

Pretty simple, I think:

The character hates the modern age. Hence, he holes himself up in his own little world. His friends take him out and show him around, but he just feels jaded by everything he sees. However, a girl catches his eye and eventually opens him up/restores his faith that despite all of the problems in the world, there's still beauty in it.

Although the song is called 'hold up', i think it might be a little play on words and to me means 'holed up' all the way through the song... like in the first verse when he sings "holed up in my prison cell" and again when he talks about his prison cell.

This song reminds me, greatly, of Meg. They were doing an interview and she said, "I've always been suspicious of the world and have always kind of lived in my own world." Very remeniscent of Little Room as well. Great song.

sounds like a mix between the white sripes and led zeppelin

yeah play on words, on the one hand he's saying slow down, wait up (hold up) and the other is howhe's holed up against it all in his own world

so i definitely heard the lyrics wrong. i thought jack says pearl instead of world. i mean come on how cool is that "can i get a look at you girl? maybe take a peek at your pearl" oh well. would have funnier. i mean we know jack can be dirty. just listen to "top yourself"