playing checkers in the greatest hall
made math and science school a little less not fun at all
studying all night for dr. kish's quiz
at least you never caught Yersinia pestis
LAN parties after lights out
some got mad when we competed for the longest shout
Suspended for a week when i propped a door
so we drove to shawnee to get some tips from rushmore
it was looking pretty bleak - would they let us stay?
But did we really want imprisonment anyway?
Still, I'm pretty glad they let us back in
You were a pretty shoddy roommate but i'd do it again
Don't ever take for granted what you're given
mathew when they found you they had found you finding jesus as well
the poison had caught you in its spell
did nobody bother you to tell
the catholics would banish you to ...
well they should know that you're in
a better part of hell
Making fun of tyler and aaron for being so fat
and how laura was such a brat
double-cut punch right across the chin
boxing during study time once and again
and with a couple old foils we'd find and then
party in the dark to Aphex Twin
Always kind of an ass, always making us laugh
i used to like looking into the past
now you're out of line, now you're out of time
forever asshole
did you really think you had it the worst of all?
you had everything you ever needed
except another head a little less conceited
forget about the ones that once you needed
matthew when they found you they had found you finding jesus as well
the poison had caught you in its spell
did nobody bother you to tell
the catholics would banish you to
well they should know that you're in
a better part of hell
than the darkness whence you fell before
matt when they found you they had found that you'd found christ where
you lay
he gave you the strength to live, they say.
i think he gave you the strength to pass away
he made you believe it was okay
to produce all the pain and blame
anchors away!
five hundred yesterdays
before you took your breath away.
take a tip from johnny, at least he's still alive.
not a lot to say
nothing much to do
there is a part of you
in every of the ones you knew
one of whom forever blue
i only wish you knew
that the gun that failed to fire beforehand
tried to tell you nothing new
made math and science school a little less not fun at all
at least you never caught Yersinia pestis
some got mad when we competed for the longest shout
so we drove to shawnee to get some tips from rushmore
But did we really want imprisonment anyway?
You were a pretty shoddy roommate but i'd do it again
Don't ever take for granted what you're given
the poison had caught you in its spell
did nobody bother you to tell
the catholics would banish you to ...
well they should know that you're in
a better part of hell
and how laura was such a brat
boxing during study time once and again
party in the dark to Aphex Twin
i used to like looking into the past
forever asshole
you had everything you ever needed
except another head a little less conceited
forget about the ones that once you needed
the poison had caught you in its spell
did nobody bother you to tell
the catholics would banish you to
well they should know that you're in
a better part of hell
than the darkness whence you fell before
you lay
he gave you the strength to live, they say.
i think he gave you the strength to pass away
he made you believe it was okay
to produce all the pain and blame
anchors away!
five hundred yesterdays
before you took your breath away.
nothing much to do
there is a part of you
in every of the ones you knew
one of whom forever blue
i only wish you knew
that the gun that failed to fire beforehand
tried to tell you nothing new
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It seems that this song is about the suicide of someone that the singer knew.
Yeah it is about a suicide. Their good friend in college killed himself.
I think they are singing about boarding school. At least it seems like a boarding school. Lightsout, boxing during study time, pretty strict rules and being on the bubble of getting kicked out of school; sounds like my boarding school experience. Are they referencing Rushmore by Wes Anderson?
They went to North Carolina School of Science and Math in Durham, NC. It's only for juniors and seniors in high school and is highly competitive to get into. And yes, it is indeed a boarding school.
They went to North Carolina School of Science and Math in Durham, NC. It's only for juniors and seniors in high school and is highly competitive to get into. And yes, it is indeed a boarding school.
Stuart Robinson is from Oklahoma, and he wrote this song. He's singing about the Oklahoma School for Science and Math, where there was a teacher of Biology named Dr. Peter Kish. (You can look him up on LinkedIn; he's currently working Pennsylvania.) Yersinia Pestis is the bacterium that becomes the Bubonic Plague, which they would have studied in biology.
Stuart Robinson is from Oklahoma, and he wrote this song. He's singing about the Oklahoma School for Science and Math, where there was a teacher of Biology named Dr. Peter Kish. (You can look him up on LinkedIn; he's currently working Pennsylvania.) Yersinia Pestis is the bacterium that becomes the Bubonic Plague, which they would have studied in biology.
I wonder if Dr. Kish knows that he has been immortalized in a song.
I wonder if Dr. Kish knows that he has been immortalized in a song.
Shawnee is Shawnee, Oklahoma, where Oklahoma Baptist University is located. It's about 40 miles east of Oklahoma City, where OSSM is located. He could be comparing Rushmore...
Shawnee is Shawnee, Oklahoma, where Oklahoma Baptist University is located. It's about 40 miles east of Oklahoma City, where OSSM is located. He could be comparing Rushmore Academy from Wes Anderson's film Rushmore to OBU, or it could be a person nicknamed Rushmore who lived in Shawnee, or something else altogether. I'm not familiar with anything named Rushmore in Shawnee, but I've only been there a few times.
He also seems to be getting angry at god and blaming him for his friend's suicide saying "I think he gave you the strength to pass away." "He" referring to god.
The boarding/magnet school described is The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) which the band's drummer attended.
The screamed line just prior to the last verse "take a tip from johnny, at least he's still alive" refers to another Bombadil song "Johnny" in which the titular character self-harms (e.g. "writing on his arm with a knife").