In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
It's gonna be okay
Can't afford another day
At fifty bytes per second
I've never seen your face
I've never heard your voice
But I think I like it
When you instant message me
With a promise
I can feel it
I can tell you're gonna be
Just like me
My eyes are gone strain
My heart is feeling pain
At fifty beats per second
I've never seen your eyes
I've never heard your voice
But I think I like it
When you instant message me
With a promise
I can feel it
I can tell you're gonna be
Just like me
Just like me
You said
You said
Can't afford another day
At fifty bytes per second
I've never seen your face
I've never heard your voice
But I think I like it
When you instant message me
With a promise
I can feel it
I can tell you're gonna be
Just like me
My eyes are gone strain
My heart is feeling pain
At fifty beats per second
I've never seen your eyes
I've never heard your voice
But I think I like it
When you instant message me
With a promise
I can feel it
I can tell you're gonna be
Just like me
Just like me
You said
You said
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Pink Ego Box Lyrics as written by Matthew James Bellamy Matt Bellamy
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I want to eat muse with a spoon
This song to me is about how our society today has gone totally digital and anti-social. We tend to express our feelings through indirect ways, ex: text messaging, and instant messaging. This method of expressing ourselves is very impersonal when compared to doing it face to face. Towards the end of the song Matt shows what happens when you take impersonal expression seriously. The one expressing it gives the wrong vibes to the recipient causing the person to go crazy being led to believe falsely. In short it's probably a better idea to express yourself to the person face.
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I meat my girlfriend over the internet...nothing bad about it
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Definatley an online relationship of some sorts. The end of the song could possibly mean a stalker, but its almost a tragic cyber love song.
I'm thinking this song is about insant messengers, wow arent i smart, yeah anyway its about meeting up with a girl online and then falling in love or at least having cybersex, well thats all i got
I think you might be pretty right. This song was written while Bellamy had an on-line relationship with a Dutch girl....or so they say :)
Yeah, I agree. Kind of like the relationship I had with soem guy online. Obviously it all went wrong, but at least I could listen to a great song when it did!
lmao "youve got post" that makes me piss my pants! maybe im easily amused..:( lol its the tinkle noise!
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