When We Stand on Each Other We Block Out the Sun

fuck your world, i'll take mine. i love this band so much.

these are off.

"It's been two years Since I've taken this way home It's comforting to know

Not much has changed From the fields we used to roam To sneak into those two abandoned Homes

Everyones a writer I just have a general block There's signs in every yard Everyones a writer but a piece of plastic doesn't tend to make my mind

I still take bad advice from my best friends Rather take bad advice from my best friends And guide a sinking ship down to the bottom with them

I'll go to the bottom with you I'll go to the bottom with you

Thinking back I'm thinking forward I always thought I'd be further than I ever am (Without this bad knee) Without this bad knee I wouldn't have a good one These vices don't hold me down They fucking carry me

Everyones a writer I just have a general block There's signs in every yard Everyones a writer but a piece of plastic doesn't tend to make my mind

I still take bad advice from my best friends Rather take bad advice from my best friends And guide a sinking ship down to the bottom with them

I'll go to the bottom with you I'll go to the bottom

Sometimes I can't believe the things I get myself into Because layin' low has never made much sense to me

Sometimes I can't believe the things I get myself into Because layin' low has never made much sense to me

I still take bad advice from my best friends (Wa-oh)

I still take bad advice from my best friends Rather take bad advice from my best friends

And guide a sinking ship down to the bottom with them

I'll go to the bottom with you I'll go to the bottom with you

So keep on spinnin' I'll stay behind My closing speech Fuck your world I'll take mine"

First of all, I LOVE LOVE this song. But on the other hand, it's hard to tell what this song is really about. It seems like it's all over the place (lyrical content-wise), and the fact that it's hard for us to agree on the lyrics makes even harder to tell the meaning.

I think the general theme is something like "I've come a long way, but some things are still like before, and I like it that way." The chorus is case-in-point; "I still take bad advice from my best friends." Maybe that's one of the few things he did before changing and he still does. (I'm still not sure how to interpret the bridge and the post-chorus, though.)