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Pictures in an Exhibition Lyrics
I think you caught me on the downslide, downturn
I was busy writing with a pen and paper thin dream
And all your plastic people with plastic hearts and smiles
They had the worst intentions all along after all
All
All
All
The royal castle holds the mellow drama kings and queens
And all their dazzling children, they’re so regal, so clean
With pristine fingertips, they wash behind their ears
Then let their hair down until the audiences leave
Leave
Leave
Leave
Leave
I’m definitely shaking
The silence isn’t breaking
Backwashed and stranded memories
Of something I thought could be
I’m definitely shaking
The silence isn’t breaking
Backwashed and stranded memories
Of something I thought could be
I’m definitely shaking
I’m definitely shaking
I’m definitely shaking
I’m definitely shaking
I was busy writing with a pen and paper thin dream
And all your plastic people with plastic hearts and smiles
They had the worst intentions all along after all
All
All
All
And all their dazzling children, they’re so regal, so clean
With pristine fingertips, they wash behind their ears
Then let their hair down until the audiences leave
Leave
Leave
Leave
Leave
The silence isn’t breaking
Backwashed and stranded memories
Of something I thought could be
The silence isn’t breaking
Backwashed and stranded memories
Of something I thought could be
I’m definitely shaking
I’m definitely shaking
I’m definitely shaking
Song Info
Submitted by
weezerific:cutlery On Dec 28, 2001
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"polyurethane people with their glass hearts" is the line on the chords version, one of my favorite lines, really.
i first heard photobooth by DCFC and then i d/led this one and i fell in love with it!!! awesome song!
This is one of my fav songs by Death Cab. What I think it means is...That people are incredibly fake and try to be so perfect....it's like there entire life is an act and they all have to act a certain way instead of being themselves.
All the world's a stage
man, i love this song...
This is one of the most perfect chorus in any song I have every heard. I still can't get over its perfection. Never gets old...
i'm definitely shaking the silence isn't breaking backwashed and stranded memories of something i thought could be
DCFC are grrreat
perhaps i'm being too literal but... to me, it seems as though the narrator is watching a play or a movie and the story relates to him, or a certain event in his life, so much that it gives him goosebumps. then it gets him down for a while.
amazing. just...amazing.
Does anyone know if this has anything to do with the gorgeous piece of classical music of the same name?
this song is good. "and all your plastic people with plastic hearts and smiles" shows how fake he thinks people are.