So there's an acoustic performance of this song--just Steve and a guitar--on YouTube somewhere. I was completely obsessed with it for several years--really being all emo and cliched about it--and it drove me nuts that it was available only on YouTube and wasn't recorded. Well, guess what? It's on his new album (which, incidentally, is under Steven Page, not TVP, so maybe this is miscategorized?), and I think I like the old YouTube acoustic version better.
The recorded version sounds so...happy. A la old-school BNL, when you'd listen to a nice cheerful poppy song and not realize until you really studied the lyrics that it's actually about suicide, or accidentally having shot your friend in the face as a child, or something. And that's a fun little trick and all, but I'd love to hear some NEW tricks from Page. (And we do, on this album, but not so much on this particular song.)
Not so much lyric analysis here, and I'm sorry for that, but I think they're pretty straightforward: His depression is messing up his relationship.
This is not the YouTube link I was thinking of--he manages to remember all the lyrics in that one (ha ha, there are few things I love more than Steven Page live!)--but it's similar enough for you to get the idea, in case anyone was wondering:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgnAdA-wwgs
This is not the YouTube link I was thinking of--he manages to remember all the lyrics in that one (ha ha, there are few things I love more than Steven Page live!)--but it's similar enough for you to get the idea, in case anyone was wondering:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgnAdA-wwgs
So there's an acoustic performance of this song--just Steve and a guitar--on YouTube somewhere. I was completely obsessed with it for several years--really being all emo and cliched about it--and it drove me nuts that it was available only on YouTube and wasn't recorded. Well, guess what? It's on his new album (which, incidentally, is under Steven Page, not TVP, so maybe this is miscategorized?), and I think I like the old YouTube acoustic version better.
The recorded version sounds so...happy. A la old-school BNL, when you'd listen to a nice cheerful poppy song and not realize until you really studied the lyrics that it's actually about suicide, or accidentally having shot your friend in the face as a child, or something. And that's a fun little trick and all, but I'd love to hear some NEW tricks from Page. (And we do, on this album, but not so much on this particular song.)
Not so much lyric analysis here, and I'm sorry for that, but I think they're pretty straightforward: His depression is messing up his relationship.
This is not the YouTube link I was thinking of--he manages to remember all the lyrics in that one (ha ha, there are few things I love more than Steven Page live!)--but it's similar enough for you to get the idea, in case anyone was wondering: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgnAdA-wwgs
This is not the YouTube link I was thinking of--he manages to remember all the lyrics in that one (ha ha, there are few things I love more than Steven Page live!)--but it's similar enough for you to get the idea, in case anyone was wondering: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgnAdA-wwgs