Reese's Pieces, I Don't Know Who John Cleese Is? Lyrics

Oh, it's a shame that I have to tape over
Those elysian smiles I thought I'd keep forever
I remember it all like it was yesterday
Forget it all, set it down, hit record, and back away
My intestines are fastening laces
Intolerable to fucking untangle
These vigilant eyes can't keep off the timekeepers
Second-hand every angle

What's keeping you waiting? Usually out before I open my eyes
Why did you pick today to epilate between your thighs?

Are you waiting for his tongue to come?
And brush against your cleaned trimmed hair?
I hope he knows, that curvilinear gyrating space
Won't be the only thing he'll taste down there
Stop to think about it, if we've both flooded the same skin
You've tasted me, I've tasted you
Who knows how many places my tongue has been?
My tongue has been

I left, you stayed, I hoped and prayed
That these nauseating thoughts weren't true
Before we met, I wouldn't bet
I would give up nihilism for you

Nothing ever made sense, was I even real?
Took everything I wouldn't touch, and made me feel (Hell yeah!)
I had all my faith in you
That you would never commit an act of deceit
To wake up in the ante meridian
Knowing there would be solid ground to support my feet

If it is alright (if it is alright) to conceal the truth
Then when does the concealment end, and lying begin?
Tell me when? Tell me when? This is a maudlin motion picture
A theme song in search of a movie
I've got the perfect script to match this tune
Who really knows what goes on in the afternoon?
Let's not ruin the surprise

I don't buy these incredulous denials
Do you think you've found the exit t o your escape?
I really shouldn't be thinking this way
It would put my mind at ease if I caught your ass on tape
There'll be no excuses baby
I'll forward this to your friends and family

Maybe I should reconsider this diagnosis
Let's think things out before we conclude
Commonly a virtuoso at these procedures
But this was the saddest thing my eyes have ever viewed

The postmeridian hours that we performed
Seemed like such a perfunctory routine
But I can obviously tell by the footage here
That you're in love with his machine
How could you do this to me?
Next time you won't get out so easily
Now that I know what I'm up against, I came prepared
Bat in hand, behind the closest door I painfully stared

Say "hello" to this bark, in-between your teeth
Soon you will also be bleeding from underneath
It took balls to do what you've done
Having your manhood in your mouth is no fun
And as for you darling, you're going nowhere
It's kind of hard to move when you're tied to a chair
See there's a twist to this lovely, for you to see
What's hiding in your wardrobe isn't a shopping spree

Come out to stilts supporting the wait of lust
I always thought you were someone I could always trust
Now watch this, we're smacking flesh
I'm sure you don't even care
But with your eyelids sewn back to your brows
This leaves you forced to stare

With a wire wrapped around his neck
Tightly tied to a tree
There he stood on the top of the cliff
With his inanimate life above the sea
He drinks his virulent drink
And sets himself on fire
Pulls the trigger through the mid-air
Misses his head, and snaps the wire
Now choking and strangling in the water
His body begins to sink
Not only did that put out the flames
But he regurgitated his drink
This wasn't the worse thing that could happen... yes it is
We're dying slowing again
We're dying slowly again?

Stop! Rewind! Watch them die!
Stop! Rewind! Watch them die!
Stop! Rewind! Watch them die!
Stop! Rewind! Watch them die!

Stop! Rewind! Watch them die! (Oh don't you love to play it back, and watch it all over?)
Stop! Rewind! Watch them die! (Oh don't you love to play it back, and watch it all over?)
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Cover art for Reese's Pieces, I Don't Know Who John Cleese Is? lyrics by I Set My Friends On Fire

HHEELLLOO!!!!... It's a bout a chick cheating on him with some other guy... And he kills them both after video taping them together... How do you not get that??...

How he kills the Guy: Bashes him in the mouth with a bat "Say "hello" to this bark, in-between your teeth" Cuts his junk of and shoves it in his mouth "Soon you will also be bleeding from underneath" "Having your manhood in your mouth is no fun" Hangs him, poisons him, and sets him on fire "With a wire wrapped around his neck, Tightly tied to a tree, There he stood on the top of the cliff, With his inanimate life, above the sea. He drinks his virulent drink. And sets himself on fire"

"Hangs him, poisons him, and sets him on fire"

I don't think thats what he does to the guy cheating on his girlfriend, I think it's what the character in the song does to himself after killing them both.

"This wasn't the worst thing that could happen...yes it is."

Best thing to do really to maximise the tragedy, having them all die, his slower than he would have liked.

But then again thats just what I think :/

I really don't think he kills himself for the fact that at the end of the song it says:

"Stop Rewind Watch Them Die"

Kinda like he's watching the video of them dying over and over and over...

a little off ok the story is a girl cheating on him him video taping it to get proff then yes he kills the guy with the base ball bat and that stuff but the talking part with a wire wrapped around his neck isnt part of killing the guy after kill the guy he rapes the girl and kills her

And as for you darling, you're going nowhere It's kind of hard to move when you're tied to a chair See there's a twist to this lovely, for you to see What's hiding in your wardrobe isn't a shopping spree...

Cover art for Reese's Pieces, I Don't Know Who John Cleese Is? lyrics by I Set My Friends On Fire

So the obvious part of this is that he catches her cheating on him, but it's more than just revenge.

The theme of cynicism from but the nuns are watching still kind of exists here.

When he says "before we met I wouldn't bet I'd give up nihilism for you" and "took everything I wouldn't touch and made me feel." He's saying that he had reached a point in his life where he had learned to have no expectations and no disappointments, to the point that he thinks life is meaningless. The girl finally had him hoping for something, thinking that he could trust her. He starts thinking that life has meaning and that there are good people. "I had all my faith in you, that you would never commit an act of deceit." But then she turns on him by cheating.

He starts to suspect that she is cheating, and leaves a video camera in the room, taping over videos of her and him together "It's a shame I have to tape over..." he then leaves while she stays at home. When he watches the video later seeing that she's cheating, and can't really fully accept what he's seeing for a time "Maybe I should reconsider this diagnosis."

His idea of her being good falls apart and he realizes that she's only interested in sex, nothing deeper "But I can obviously tell by the footage here, That you're in love with his machine!" the word 'machine' is used to make her seem more like a robot than a person

He then hides in the closet waiting for her and the other guy to have sex, then jumps out. Smashes the other guy in the mouth with a baseball bat, and cuts his balls off and puts them in his mouth. Either the girl is tied up to the chair while this is happening or he ties her up after.

I think the ending is the narrator killing himself, but I'm not sure. I think the "stop rewind watch them die" might be the Victorian metaphor of sex=death. The girl being the one watching or another audience watching. I don't think the tape could be of the narrator dying because it says watch "them" die, implying multiple people. This is the only part of the song that I'm not sure about though.

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I agree with everything that you're saying, but I have a few things to contribute. When he ties her to the chair, and she's "force to stare," I believe that he's forcing her to watch what he's taped. The whole song is themed around what he's video taped, and he says "what's hiding in your wardrobe isn't a shopping spree." I think he's referring to the video camera he hid in her closet.

In the end of the song, he's obviously talking about how he kills himself. "He sets himself on fire" (and a good reference...

I agree with a lot of what both of you two said. This is sort of my elaboration on it:

My interpretation is that it's basically saying that relationships and emotions die hard. The situation described by the speaker sets up everything to go wrong. When he realizes she's cheating, he has to go through several stages of denial, doubt, depression and hatred which ultimately ends in revenge in which he has to kill them both (which I feel is symbolic of him desperately trying to kill his own emotional attachment to the girl and his hatred of...

Cover art for Reese's Pieces, I Don't Know Who John Cleese Is? lyrics by I Set My Friends On Fire

I don't know what the hell this song is about. But I love it. Especially the last couple of stanzas.

ok hes the step by step of whats happening matching with the lyrics cause im tired of people who cant figure out such a simple story

(what you need to know first is shes cheating on him and he hides a video camera to get proof)

Oh, it's a shame that I have to tape over Those elysian smiles I thought I'd keep forever I remember it all like it was yesterday Forget it all, set it down, hit record, and back away

(the tape hes using to record was a tape of her but hes saying he needs to...

@gorevela, thanks for that I only knew that it was about cheating and eventually killing his girlfriend and the guy, but when I first say 'with your eyelids sewn back to your brows,' I first had thought that she was surprised or terrified and was looking at him with shock or something

To epilate, Gorevela, means to remove body hair.

Cover art for Reese's Pieces, I Don't Know Who John Cleese Is? lyrics by I Set My Friends On Fire

I think it's about a relationship with someone, and then she cheated, and now they're dying out slowly, and he wants revenge. At least that's my opinion.

Cover art for Reese's Pieces, I Don't Know Who John Cleese Is? lyrics by I Set My Friends On Fire

I think the girl is cheating. he video tapes killing the guy and makes her watch it over & over.

orr the girl feeels the guilt and she knows how bad it hurt him. the guilt makes her replay things in her mind over and over. the "manhood in your mouth" part maybe is about him feeling like, not manly because he got played.

the part about "do you know where my tounge has been" maybe is him realizing that she's a whore, she's easy; maybe he is just coming into realization.

Cover art for Reese's Pieces, I Don't Know Who John Cleese Is? lyrics by I Set My Friends On Fire

I think he's in a relationship with a girl. He goes to work during the day and that's when his girlfriend cheats on him with another guy. (Who really knows what goes on in the afternoon?)

He gets suspicious and puts a video camera in their room and sees that she's cheating on him. (I really shouldn't be thinking this way, It would put my mind at ease, If I caught your ass on tape.)

He then ties the girl up and sews her eyes to her eyebrows and forces her to watch him kill the guy she was cheating on him with. (Say "hello" to this bark, in-between your teeth. Soon you will also be bleeding from underneath. It took balls to do what you've done. Having your manhood in your mouth is no fun. And as for you darling, you're going no where, It's kind of hard to move when you're tied to a chair.) (But with your eyelids sown back to your brows. This leaves you forced to stare.)

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Cover art for Reese's Pieces, I Don't Know Who John Cleese Is? lyrics by I Set My Friends On Fire

i think This is I Set My Freinds On Fire's best song by far, i couldnt really tell you what its about, i'm just listening to the other comments left, just saying its awesomee

Cover art for Reese's Pieces, I Don't Know Who John Cleese Is? lyrics by I Set My Friends On Fire

yeahh, it's deffs about a girl cheating and the guy getting revenge, that much is straight forward. personally, i think this song's straight up amazing, and my personal favourite. i dont know if it's meant to be taken litterally or if maybe it's just what matt really wants to do.

and the stop rewind watch them die part is probably refering to how he starts going crazy after he does it and is saying it to himself, and makes it seem like he killed the girl too, not himself. not to mention being an awesome chat that i cant wait to yell when they play this song febuary 1st!

of course it not to be taken literally and the stop rewind is just telling you to watch it again just like the part about this is a maudalin motion picture a theme song in search of a movie i got the perfect script to match this tune its all a joke a made up story it supposed to be like a movie so stop rewind watch them die not watch them have sex it not the guy watching it over and over hes dead watch them die the only video of them dieing is this song

Cover art for Reese's Pieces, I Don't Know Who John Cleese Is? lyrics by I Set My Friends On Fire

"Comes out to stilts supporting the wait of lust, I always thought you were someone i could always trust. Now watch this we smacking flesh, I'm sure you don't even care. But with your eyelids sown back to your brows. This leaves you forced to stare."

... does he rape her.?

I thought that was about him beating the guy with the bat ("we smaking flesh"...him and his bat)and then forcing the girl to watch...

Which is just odd - why wouldn't she care?

no he doesn't rape her.

In that situation, that is after a girl cheats and he found out, the girl would avoid eye contact.

By doing this he forces her to look at him while he verbally rips her apart.

smacking flesh is obviously talking about raping her learn to read the whole story and understand i just posted the whole story if you dont understand after that then give up on life

Cover art for Reese's Pieces, I Don't Know Who John Cleese Is? lyrics by I Set My Friends On Fire

Say "hello" to this bark, in-between your teeth Soon you will also be bleeding from underneath It took balls to do what you've done Having your manhood in your mouth is no fun And as for you darling, you're going nowhere It's kind of hard to move when you're tied to a chair See there's a twist to this lovely, for you to see What's hiding in your wardrobe isn't a shopping spree

Come out to stilts supporting the wait of lust I always thought you were someone I could always trust Now watch this, we're smacking flesh I'm sure you don't even care But with your eyelids sewn back to your brows This leaves you forced to stare

(He bashes the guy's face in with a bat and cuts off his "man-hood" and makes him eat it then ties her to a chair he tells her he was hiding in her closet

all she wanted was sex he thought he could trust her he watched her have sex with another guy and saw she didnt even care she was cheating) but now sinces shes tied up shes forced to watch him kill her "fling")

 
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