Ten Cent Blues Lyrics

Lyric discussion by blue_plates 

Cover art for Ten Cent Blues lyrics by Eisley

Yeah this song may have something to do with the relationship triangle that Sherri, Chad, and Hayley Williams from Paramore was in. And NogoodBoyo, hahahahahhaha.

It might just be a lovely arrangement of words, but I thought the song meaning was pretty clear for you.

Dear orthodox, I can't control my feelings, and who hit me? I just might be coming round the bush, and my stilts, they began cracking, subsequently pushed, [It felt like everything was going well (stilts) but then everything fell apart, and she doesn't know how to handle it]

and I looked to see that it was she, just some abandoned little crook like me. Adieu, adieu, and fare thee well. This was the ending plea. [Then she saw the cause of all this and saw who had caused it, and it hurt because it was a friend ("like me"), and she is now attempting her last at getting him back ("ending plea")]

Oh, whoa... I was attached on bended knee, yet I declined my lead. [She was connected to him by matrimony ("bended knee"), but she didn't want to try to be the only person that wanted to keep the relationship ("lead")]

But who could blame a fraction of her being? She is cheesy, she is scrawny, with her uncanny styling. I'm teasing. She is pleasing. She just has no wit, [She doesn't want to blame her, but she really can't help it. The girl who cause all the calamity is just chasing after the guy mindlessly.]

and I'm sorry I don't have her face, and I'm probably gonna lose this race. There is no doubt she's such a mouse with such an abstract grace. [She's admitting that she probably won't end up with the guy, and apologizing that she's not that girl.]

Oh, whoa... There is no cure, I am sure, for these ten cent blues. [The whole effect of the situation is hurting her more than anything.]

And then she chose to dissect me and I was casted into poverty. When I did not agree with her, she said, "You've got nerve," [The girl really decided to go for it, and the girl married with the man was pushed into a painful state. When she (the married one) spoke up, the other girl shoved everything into her face.]

but I don't care if I'm granted for all these things. If I were one among this crowd would you call that defeat? [She's given up and doesn't care anymore. If she was just another face in the crowd, would it really be that bad?]

In a way it's making me crazy, in the sense that it's making me stronger. A likely chance, and it's probably proven. In the end we'll all walk away. [All of this has made her stronger, but made her hurt incredibly. She says it'll be resolved in the end, and she'll just walk away from those two people.]

Shaking hands on the doormat, I salute you, sir. A stranger and a happy fit-- so glad I'm part of it, and that I saw it all. [She's saying goodbye to the whole ordeal, and that she's glad she was able to gain more strength through the hurt. A stranger and a happy fit, the stranger is the man she was married to and the happy fit is the girl who finally got him.]

Whew! My interpretation.