High life
We've been around forever
Look at us now together
Ordering drinks at the bar
Saying hello to manfriends
Smiling across a friend's friends
Ordering drinks at the bar
To speak is a sin
You look first, then stare
And once in a while
A smile, if you dare
(Ta da da da da aah Ta da da da da)
We'll stand around forever
Regardless of time or weather
Ordering drinks at the bar
Looking for love, and getting
Nothing that's worth regretting
But wondering why we travel so far
To speak is a sin
You look first, then stare
And once in a while
A smile, if you dare
To speak is a sin
You'd better beware (aah)
But once in a while
A smile, if you dare (aah)
(Aah, Aah, Aah)
To speak is a sin
You look first, then stare
And once in a while
A smile, if you dare
To speak is a sin
You'd better beware (aah)
And once in a while
A smile, if you dare (oooh)
(Aaah Aaah Oooh)
(Aaahhh)
Look at us now together
Ordering drinks at the bar
Saying hello to manfriends
Smiling across a friend's friends
Ordering drinks at the bar
To speak is a sin
You look first, then stare
And once in a while
A smile, if you dare
(Ta da da da da aah Ta da da da da)
We'll stand around forever
Regardless of time or weather
Ordering drinks at the bar
Looking for love, and getting
Nothing that's worth regretting
But wondering why we travel so far
To speak is a sin
You look first, then stare
And once in a while
A smile, if you dare
To speak is a sin
You'd better beware (aah)
But once in a while
A smile, if you dare (aah)
(Aah, Aah, Aah)
To speak is a sin
You look first, then stare
And once in a while
A smile, if you dare
To speak is a sin
You'd better beware (aah)
And once in a while
A smile, if you dare (oooh)
(Aaah Aaah Oooh)
(Aaahhh)
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And, of course, the fact that she sees in him a fellow "idealist" and "dreamer" (terms commonly given to people with the INFP personality on the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)) portends that she'll always be left wondering if they would've been perfect together.
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Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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Mountain Song
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
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I absolutely love it! "How graceful your movements, how bitter your scorn I've been a teenager since before you were born" -Best lines of the whole song. =]
To me, this is the deepest song that PSB ever produced. I can relate to this song as I am now a middle aged man who doesn't feel older than 20, but I no longer turn young men's heads.
It's about a middle aged or older gay man in a bar or restaurant watching a handsome young man as he plays a video game (listen to the background noises to hear the video games being played).
The older man carries on a conversation in his head with the younger man. He says the young man doesn't need money or depth to get what he "wants", whereas if the older man "wants" something, he would likely have to pay for it. In his mind's eye he's telling the young man that he imagines the young man can have any man he wants and yet he treats them with contempt and discards them when he's done. He speaks about the young man's "attitude" - his superior attitude because he's young and handsome. He remembers when he so foolishly did the same.
He remembers what it was like to be young and be able to turn men down. He thinks that even though the young man has contempt for him or doesn't even know he exists, he would "do what you want if you want me enough". The older man would like to have a young man just so much as notice him now. He knows he could easily "put down my book and start falling in love" but acknowledges that young people today sleep around a lot more than he did because he says "or isn't that done?".
He says, "I've been a teenager since before you were born" meaning he is at the very least 13 years older than the young man in question and probably older, but he reminds the young man that he's "younger than some", meaning he isn't as old as a lot of other men and he is defending himself, as he doesn't feel as old as he is.
He yearns to not just "get in your way" but to "open [the boy's] eyes" to him, even though the boy doesn't notice him. He thinks the boy would be pleasantly surprised.
Alas, he acknowledges that this conversation is all in his head, as the young man continues to play the video games and the man doesn't even know how to play them.
The chorus reminds us that this is a conversation in the man's head and that he knows that this young man (and all young men) seem to look right through him and are completely unaware of his existence.
It's a very sad song, all in all. Of course it's a very sad state of affairs just getting older if you're gay.