Stay Alive

beautiful

beautiful song. i'm sure it's about meth, though. "when it's gone / you sit and stare until the golden dawn" is definitely about drugs, nevermind the other lines.

don't you try to shoot up the sky

I think this song is an amazing nod to Ride, the guitars are so Ride-ish, the whole atmosphere... Tt really makes me think of a huge endless sky, and being in a desert looking at a ghost town or something like that. Anyway, it's amazing, I love this band, I hope there's a real shoegazing revival coming up...

And I think it's about being so happy in the arms of someone you love but know it's bad for you, about just wanting to enjoy the moment, to forget about the harm that may come from that relationship, and realizaing that happiness can easily turn inyo you geting lost and trapped... I'm not sure, but right now it sounds like that.

Sorry for the typing errors...

I think, like 2/3s of their songs, this one is about the speaker who being involved with a super cool woman already in a relationship with someone else.

Seems to me like the singer is trying to persuade someone not to commit suicide, hence the chorus. I might not be reading deep enough, though.

The Black Hole Kids I think is a reference to the Adolescents song. The definition I saw said that the black hole is a one bedroom apartment in California where homeless kids into punk music live.

The Vivian Girls song Death also refers to staying alive and came out the previous year.

I have wondered if the Golden Dawn line is a reference to the occult group at the beginning of the last century that had as members Aleister Crowley and W.B. Yeats.