Nothingtown

Hold on tighter With my lighter Shining through

my guess is that the lighter is pretty much saying, i haven't got much to shine any light with, but i do have this lighter and we'll try to make it through with what little we have

I agree about the two friends, but I think it's about them dreaming of leaving wherever they live but not doing anything about it and just tolerating living there.

I think it's about living in a Nothingtown, and just wanting to get out, move somewhere else, experience new things, and make something of yourself.

I relate to that. I live in a Nothingtown. Population: 430. Student Enrollment at our only school (k-12): 180.

I think it's about two friends, who smoke weed all day, making lots of talk about quitting and making something of their lifes.

But they are just in denial, not wanting to see the truth that they won't ever change:

"Blindfold a new direction Stop asking better questions Don’t figure out That we’re never getting out"

yea, yea, i agree.

this song is the most awesomest song on the album. i love the part:

Hold on tighter With my lighter Shining through

it makes me wanna sing along. hehe.

I live in a "Nothingtown", on a city that always seems to be sleeping. I kinda understand the feeling of escaping the city, dreaming of having a life in a city that offers you what you want, but at the same time, because of usual problems like health or money, you can't escape and must tolerate living here, a little more time.

Hopefully, I'll escape my Nothingtown next year, but this song it's so freaking close to my reality that I like to "understand" it this way.

This sounds like Want You Bad lol, as well as ripping green day off, they rip themselves. haha

I lived in a real-life version of Nothingtown before - Missoula, Montana. Believe me, this song is dead on the money. It's about the townies, the kids that talk about busting out of their safe, dull little slice of suburbia, but never will.

The "Hold on tighter/With my lighter" suggests either smoking or good ol' fashioned ganja, but it's a bit vague. It could go either way.

Let's make this complicated Thinking is overrated We're busting out Of this shitty little town

THis stanza is reffering to a pair of friends who are tired of always being predictable, and they are sick of the small town life. THey want to leave because everyone thinks that they will be "lima losers" who stay in their hometown for the rest of their lives.

Green grass and colored lenses Tear down these picket fences Burn in our beds While the city lies sleeping

The friends are tired of all of the illusions of small town life. They could be classified as "disgusted" with how the people in this town live. They don't want to grow up to be like all of the people in their town.

Blindfold a new direction Stop asking better questions Don't figure out That we're never getting out

They are blindly leaving because no one has ever left before. They decided not to ask any questions because their fear is that they will never leave.

Why oh why? Are we starting up and going down? My oh my Just the two of us in Nothingtown Our superhero play We'll leave this town today And I'll row it if you steer it I'll yell until you hear it Hold on tighter With my lighter Shining through

They are pleading to know when they can leave, if they will leave, and why no one thinks they will never leave. They are only seen as their "lighter" (refering to the smoking type, but it could be a metaphor) which is a metaphor to everyone thinking that they are losers (using the connotation of a smoker as a loser who will never go anywhere in life). The fact that they are only seen as losers who will end up staying in town makes them feel hapless at the aspect of leaving.

Still stuck in Nothingtown Still stuck in Nothingtown Come on let's go

They are forever going to be stuck in that nothing town state, but they desperately want to leave.

I personally take this song as referring to a nothingtown as not a small town of less than 1000 people, but to a town where no one ever leaves. I live in one of these towns. People go to the only high school here, graduate, go to the only college around, get married, and end up having kids who go to the smae HS and go through the same life. I don't want to end up like these guys, and the couple I think of when I hear this song is the main singer and a person he met who possibly has left already and the singer is going to go meet up with that person.

Finding/reaching his "sempai's" place is the endgame. It's my endgame.