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I thought I had left it behind
In another fucking time
When boys were boys, girls were girls
And faces were hard ot find
It followed me
All the stupid thinking
The stupid people thought
The rules that we lived buy
The friends that we bought
The asshole with a strong arm
In the shape of floating friends
The young ladies and their secrets
In the soap that never ends
I thought I had outrun
When I crossed the tracks
I thought I had gotten away
When it tapped me on the back
It followed me
It followed me
In another fucking time
When boys were boys, girls were girls
And faces were hard ot find
The stupid people thought
The rules that we lived buy
The friends that we bought
The asshole with a strong arm
In the shape of floating friends
The young ladies and their secrets
In the soap that never ends
When I crossed the tracks
I thought I had gotten away
When it tapped me on the back
It followed me
Song Info
Submitted by
black_cow_of_death On Dec 13, 2001
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It's pretty obvious. All the stuff Ian became a punk to escape (herd mentality, ignorance, cliques, vapid fashionista bullshit, bullying, senseless violence, etc.) had followed him into the punk scene when the idiots who punk was actually rebelling against started joining the scene cos it wsa the cool and trendy thing to do.
all that time, I never thought about it
but yeah
it really does seem to be about how subcultures always become exactly what they formerly rejected about society.
^Amen brother you nailed it. Brilliant song. I'm 30 years old and still jamming this song. It proves that no matter how old you get, if you were once intelligent enough to figure this out and felt this way about society, it really never changes even if you do "fit in". Well, at least that's how it is for me.
I think u guys are right ^ Great song.
I thought I had left it behind In another fucking time When boys were boys, girls were girls And faces were hard to find
IT FOLLOWED ME
All the stupid thinking Stupid people thought The rules that we lived by The friends that we bought The asshole with a strong arm In the shape of floating friends The young ladies and their secrets In the soap that never ends
IT FOLLOWED ME
You know, I thought I had outrun it When I crossed the tracks I thought I had gotten away But it tapped me on the back
IT FOLLOWED ME