You have got a lot of nerve to behave the way that you do
Making me listen to all of your carrying on
You are not the only one who thinks that life is so cruel
Me, I have got problems of my own
But if you talk and nobody's listening
Then it's almost like being alone
So it's alright the way you piss and moan
It's alright, the way you piss and moan
Like the time traveler who killed his grandfather, these cycles are bringing me down
We could build a nice life together if we don't kill each other first
Are you just too fucked up to understand me or is it the other way around?
Maybe it's both, and I just don't know which is worse
So you better thank your lucky stars
You don't know half what I know is true
But it's alright if you think that you do
It's alright, if you think that you do
Was it the devil, or was it the lord
Who gave you those words
The ones I never heard?
It's alright to kill and it's alright to steal
If you're willing to hold up your part of the deal
There are plenty of things that are worth dying for
But you'll never know until you open that door
And reasons for living are seldom and few
And if you see one you better stick to it like glue, yes it's true, it is true
If I were there to keep satisfied all of your carnal desires
Then it might be my place to say what is or isn't forbid
So how can I hold it against you if you answer the call of the wild?
No matter how brilliant a woman, you're only a kid
But if you know that nobody is ever going
To suffer for you like I did
Well it's alright the way that you live
It's alright the way that you live
It's alright the way that you live
It's alright the way that you live
It's alright the way that you live
It's alright the way that you live
It's alright the way that you live
It's alright the way that you live
It's alright now
Making me listen to all of your carrying on
You are not the only one who thinks that life is so cruel
Me, I have got problems of my own
But if you talk and nobody's listening
Then it's almost like being alone
So it's alright the way you piss and moan
It's alright, the way you piss and moan
Like the time traveler who killed his grandfather, these cycles are bringing me down
We could build a nice life together if we don't kill each other first
Are you just too fucked up to understand me or is it the other way around?
Maybe it's both, and I just don't know which is worse
So you better thank your lucky stars
You don't know half what I know is true
But it's alright if you think that you do
It's alright, if you think that you do
Was it the devil, or was it the lord
Who gave you those words
The ones I never heard?
It's alright to kill and it's alright to steal
If you're willing to hold up your part of the deal
There are plenty of things that are worth dying for
But you'll never know until you open that door
And reasons for living are seldom and few
And if you see one you better stick to it like glue, yes it's true, it is true
If I were there to keep satisfied all of your carnal desires
Then it might be my place to say what is or isn't forbid
So how can I hold it against you if you answer the call of the wild?
No matter how brilliant a woman, you're only a kid
But if you know that nobody is ever going
To suffer for you like I did
Well it's alright the way that you live
It's alright the way that you live
It's alright the way that you live
It's alright the way that you live
It's alright the way that you live
It's alright the way that you live
It's alright the way that you live
It's alright the way that you live
It's alright now
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To Old Friends and New Lyrics as written by Patrick Stickles
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it is not precisely a songversion of the book or even part of the book nor is it as philosophical or deep (crime and punishment is nearly 700 pages long so there is a little more space to delve into the mindset of the characters) but there are in my opinion nevertheless a feeling to it of that book and recurring themes
"It's alright to kill and it's alright to steal
if you're willing to hold up your part of the deal.
There are plenty of things that are worth dying for
but you'll never know until you open that door.
And reasons for living are seldom and few
and if you see one you better stick to it like glue, yes it's true, it is true."
these lines are almost taken from the book cause the very theme in the book is exactly what is right and what is wrong shown by the case of raskolnikov - the main character -kills an old lady and her sister (the last one by accident though) and throughout the book reflects on whether it was right or wrong. he comes to the conclusion that it was wrong because he got caught and not because it's wrong killing and that he's not worthy of killing because he's no napoleon. the the "willing to hold up the part of the deal"-thing
the "stick to it like glue" i think is a reference to a prostitute named sonja who follows him to siberia for all the nine years he's gonna do his sentence.
"No matter how brilliant a woman, you're only a kid."
sonja is much younger than raskolnikov and he always seems annoyed with her naitivity and ignorance and faith by the way which might explain the lines "Was it the devil, or was it the lord
who gave you those words,
the ones I never heard?" because they never formulate their feelings toward each other but you can clearly see the love they have at the end of the novel and it is quitely hinted that raskolnikov becomes more of a believer at the end and sonja less of one.
these are just a couple and the most clear examples of references i see and i don't intend to claim that the song is about that book because i don't think it is and i think that the interpretations of the song being about the civil war is not bad either (even though they wrote it earlier doesn't mean they didn't reinterpret the song for this album. i don't think they just put old random stuff on an album this conceptual) but i think it is interresting if he truely drew on dostojevski's great (litterally) classic novel and it gives the song a nice little twist
but you'll never know until you open that door.'
I am living on the brink of this statement right about now.
i don't know, that was my pretentious little run-on interpretation. this song is beautiful and horrible and it makes me reevaluate my relationship, which is i guess the sort of point
I think, like the rest of the album, it's a parallel between the civil war and modern day problems in America, more specifically New Jersey. So an allegory of the civil war. The problems in modern times with a friend or girlfriend/boyfriend is similar, in the singer's view, to the problems between the union and the confederacy.
"We could build a nice life together if we don't kill each other first.
Are you just too fucked up to understand me or is it the other way around?
Maybe it's both, and I just don't know which is worse."
These lines can be interpreted as a member of the union army saying it to the confederacy (vice versa) in terms of actually killing each other, or a domestic dispute in modern times in terms of killing their relationship if they can't fix their problems.
The part about suffering for a person I never would have understood had I not met my old friend Scotty. I have never suffered for a person 'til him. I think he suffered a lot for me too. But NOBODY suffered more than his wife. She has put up with more than any woman should have to deal with because he is gay. How do come to terms with that? That is true suffering. And then if he decided after years of being gay (and putting her through hell) that he was in love with a woman! Well shit! That's brutal. So they needed to make me suffer more (than I did in real life) and that is fine.
But my partner would never want anyone to suffer. Not even me. He felt shitty about the fact that I had honkin feelings for this man, but he didn't doubt that I still loved him. He just said WHATEVER. Do what you need to do to get over it. He said -you are the loser who fell in love with a gay sociopath. Figure it out. He didn't say "Let's GET EM!"
And I have always gotten everything I have ever wanted in life. Always. Spoiled you say? Nah. Just been lucky and thankful, too. But I didn't "get" my old friend (the gay sociopath) and it was the truest suffering I've ever experienced.