Fake Frowns

I think it’s generally about the court of public opinion — be it talk shows on TV, social media on the internet, etc. It was a bit prescient in that respect because these days, it really is hard to hold people’s interest for very long with “pixels and sound”, so we have to resort to more and more shocking content to grab that fleeting attention.

they rule! i love this song. its great. i am making the first comment! so happy! i've made more for them. go check. all their songs are awesome

this song is amazing...one of their best!

great song. one of my favorites by them.

so catchy and addicting i luv this song

I get the feeling from the first verse that he tried proposing to his girlfriend and it went really wrong afterward. Anyways, good song.

I don't understand the line "you spat the sweat from the brow." What does everyone think that means? It's also ironic that this song is about fake frowns, most people think of smiles as being fake.

"you spat the sweat from the brow"

just another way to say you sweated. probably a lot of sweating.

like, your pores spitting out sweat. or something.

he proposed and she said no so now he is driving back home and is pissed off and thinks the whole relationship was crap, i think?

yeah i think that this song follows off of amputations like same girl, same guy she wants to get back with, same narrator, but now its all falling apart since he proposed, which he thought in a desparate moment woudl get this girl back, but it didnt work, she sort of fled physically or emotionally, and now hes driving back home...i dunno i could be totally off, that's sort of a simple explanation...doesn't explain the jailhouse queen and jury and judge screaming to hang lines, maybe she killed someone? who knows, the lyrics are great, so dense and mysterious that you want to figure them out and then you sort of dont because you know that the explanation is oging to rob them of some of their magic. so i'll stop there.

p.s. eifel, this is one of my favorite songs!