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You Made Me Want To Be a Saint Lyrics
It was how Dave said "us"
Like the last three years had never happened
It was how George walked down and threw dirt onto the casket
It was how I know you would want this to be a fast one
And not some cliché ballad
I'm slowing down in the August air
A heavy heart and shaking hands carried you up here
I buried half of a decade there
It was the better part
You'd catch the reference if only you could hear
Because I can still hear you in the bass drum beat after "I'll Catch You"
I'm left wondering if you meant anything when you typed out
"You never got me down, Ray. I never went down"
You know the fucked up part is
I kind of always knew we'd have to write a song about this
You know the fucked up part is
I had my fingers crossed that it wouldn't be for you, kid
You know the fucked up part is
It's been months, and I still have nightmares
You know the fucked up part is
I'm never going back there
You know the fucked up part is
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Like the last three years had never happened
It was how George walked down and threw dirt onto the casket
It was how I know you would want this to be a fast one
And not some cliché ballad
A heavy heart and shaking hands carried you up here
I buried half of a decade there
It was the better part
You'd catch the reference if only you could hear
Because I can still hear you in the bass drum beat after "I'll Catch You"
I'm left wondering if you meant anything when you typed out
"You never got me down, Ray. I never went down"
I kind of always knew we'd have to write a song about this
You know the fucked up part is
I had my fingers crossed that it wouldn't be for you, kid
You know the fucked up part is
It's been months, and I still have nightmares
You know the fucked up part is
I'm never going back there
You know the fucked up part is
The fuckedup part isthefuck edup partisth efuckedu ppartisfuckfuckfuck.
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I'd love to know the actual story behind this song. so powerful.
I lost a close friend to suicide a few years back, & this entire song hits me hard. Not wanting to drag out the funeral (cause they wouldn't want you to), having nightmares, etc.
"You know the fucked up part is I kind of always knew we'd have to write a song about this You know the fucked up part is I had my fingers crossed that it wouldn't be for you, kid." Brings me to tears every time... my favorite thing about TWY is the ability to relate to the songs, but this is one I hope very few can relate to =[
it's about our friend mike pelone that died in august 2010. the song "we wont bury you" from the upsides re-release is also about his death.
it's about our friend mike pelone that died in august 2010. the song "we wont bury you" from the upsides re-release is also about his death.
"Our friend passed away last August. We had just spent a few months on tour and had been home all of a day when we got the news. I hadn't seen a lot of people from around here in a long time but news spread fast, and we had rows of tables set up at a diner for everyone to meet at in an hour. I watched people that had become enemies over the years forget it and hug. Mike was a good guy. We were all better people for having known him. I know he would have hated it if we wrote him a ballad as a memorial, so we didn't. We owed him this though for all he's done for us. Even in death he brought back together a lot of people that needed each other. Thanks, Mike. We miss you."
You made me want to be a saint is another line from the Allen Ginsberg poem "America". There are a lot of references and I've been trying to find all of them.
There's only 2 tiny corrections to these lyrics, "I kind of always knew we'd write a song about this" instead of "I kind of always knew we'd have to write a song about this." and at the end he says "I'll see ya buddy."
this is an amazing song :)
Two interesting Get Up Kids references in the second verse. The most obvious is "I'll always hear you in the bass drum beat after 'I'll Catch You,'" referencing the stray bass drum beat at the end of that song.
But right before that, I'm almost certain the lines "I buried half of a decade there It was the better part" is a reference to The Get Up Kids song "Better Half," specifically the line "I saw my better half for the better half of a decade." (especially considering the "you would have caught the reference" line, followed by another Get Up Kids reference.)