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Molly (Sixteen Candles) Lyrics
Seen you naked in the bath
Cigarette stains on your hands
Wilted flowers in a vase
I ask how are you
Yeah how are you?
I see the lipstick on your glass
I think you're drunk, I start to laugh
I find your note, the letters ran
It said I love you
Yeah I love you
Don't ask why, don't ask why
Don't ask why, don't ask why
Don't ask why, don't ask why, don't ask why
Sixteen candles down the drain
I watch you passed out forever
I touch your face, you start to smile
And on your note is my reply
I wish I loved you
I wish I loved you
Don't ask why, don't ask why
Don't ask why, don't ask why
Don't ask why, don't ask why, don't ask why
Sixteen candles down the drain
(The drain)
Sixteen candles down the drain
(The drain)
Sixteen candles down the drain
(The drain)
Sixteen candles down the drain
(The drain)
Don't ask why, don't ask why, don't ask why, don't ask why
Don't ask why, don't ask why, don't ask why
Sixteen candles down the drain
(The drain)
Sixteen candles down the drain
(The drain)
Sixteen candles down the drain
(The drain)
Sixteen candles down the drain
(The drain)
Cigarette stains on your hands
Wilted flowers in a vase
I ask how are you
Yeah how are you?
I think you're drunk, I start to laugh
I find your note, the letters ran
It said I love you
Yeah I love you
Don't ask why, don't ask why
Don't ask why, don't ask why, don't ask why
I touch your face, you start to smile
And on your note is my reply
I wish I loved you
I wish I loved you
Don't ask why, don't ask why
Don't ask why, don't ask why, don't ask why
(The drain)
Sixteen candles down the drain
(The drain)
Sixteen candles down the drain
(The drain)
Sixteen candles down the drain
(The drain)
Don't ask why, don't ask why, don't ask why
(The drain)
Sixteen candles down the drain
(The drain)
Sixteen candles down the drain
(The drain)
Sixteen candles down the drain
(The drain)
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My band opened for Sponge in November of last year and I briefly spoke to Vinnie about the song. Three things I can confirm:
@megasoul cool. I read it’s about a band members death and that Molly was also someone Vinnie met. So it’s kind of two stories into 1,one that is a tribute (ended bad) and one that could have ended as bad, but didn’t. Could that be?
@megasoul cool. I read it’s about a band members death and that Molly was also someone Vinnie met. So it’s kind of two stories into 1,one that is a tribute (ended bad) and one that could have ended as bad, but didn’t. Could that be?
He loves her, she wishes she loved him.
He finds her dead in a bathtub. She's been dead for a while from the looks of the flowers in the vase. She wrote that she loved him. He doesn't want to ask why she did this (because he doesn't want to know? or he doesn't want to face the truth?). She was only 16 and now its 16 wasted years because she comitted suicide (down the drain). He touches her face (she passed out forever) and he wishes he loved her while she was still living.
It's about a guy who finds a dead teenager's suicide note. She killed herself on her birthday, she was only 16.
I think this song is a metaphor for all the people come and gone out of your life.
Its clearly about a guy finding his 16 year old girlfriend dead in the tub after she commited suicide. The lyrics are pretty straight forward here. I am surprised that most people aren't seeing that.
Seen you naked in the bath Cigarette stains on your hands Wilted flowers in a vase (Flowers wilted because she has been dead for a while) I ask how are you Yeah how are you?
I see the lipstick on your glass I think you're drunk, I start to laugh (At first he doesn't know she's dead. Thinks she is just passed out drunk) I find your note, the letters ran (Found suicide note, and letters ran, like the blood ran from her wrists, as he discovers) It said I love you (Her note says I love you to him) Yeah I love you (He reflects "I love you" toward her)
Don't ask why, don't ask why Don't ask why, don't ask why Don't ask why, don't ask why, don't ask why (self explanatory)
Sixteen candles down the drain (self explanatory)
I watch you passed out for a while (Again, he doesn't know she's deasd yet at this point) I touch your face, you start to smile (He touches her and manipulates her face in to what could appear to be a"smile", as he is checking to see if she is alive, and realizing she is not) And on your note is my reply I wish I loved you I wish I loved you (self explanatory - he feels guilty for not being there for her more)
Don't ask why, don't ask why Don't ask why, don't ask why Don't ask why, don't ask why, don't ask why
Sixteen candles down the drain (The drain) Sixteen candles down the drain (The drain) Sixteen candles down the drain (The drain) Sixteen candles down the drain (The drain)
Don't ask why, don't ask why, don't ask why, don't ask why Don't ask why, don't ask why, don't ask why
Sixteen candles down the drain (The drain) Sixteen candles down the drain (The drain) Sixteen candles down the drain (The drain) Sixteen candles down the drain (The drain)
im not sure about wat this song means... i guess it about a guy and a girl that have been going out for a long time. in the beginning of the song he talks about a specific time wen she tells him she loves him and he wants to return the feelings but he doesnt love her (i wish i loved you)... but i dont understand the chorus at all...
oh yeah... i forgot to add that he doesn't realize she is dead at first, because he thinks she is drunk and passed out in the bathtub.
errr... one more edit... in her letter his reply to her love was also written. apparently she told him that she loved him while she was still living and he replied to her that he wished he loved her. this is why she comitted suicide and she wrote his answer to her love in her suicide letter.
When i first heard this song i thought it was about a guy who has liked this girl for a long time but didnt think she liked him back. then they don't see each other for a long time and he gets over her. when he finally sees her again, she is not doing well, and he finds a note that she had written way back when he liked her, the note said she liked him but she didn't think he liked her back. now that he finds this out, he wants to love her like he did in the past, but he has changed and he can't. So, the first 16 years (candles) of his life spent secretly wanting this girl were wasted. it's about the irony of wanting something when you can't have it but when you can have it, not wanting it.