#like just read the lyrics - it’s just genius

[earlgreytea68]

its just one of those days where ive had coffees for closers on repeat

sighhhh

have u ever done an analysis of the song? if not what r ur thoughts?? hope ur having a good day btw xx

Ugh, this song is such a gutpunch. I've talked about it briefly in the context of how it reworks lines from Pete's poem "to you (unfinished, off the top of my head)" in THE MOST PAINFUL WAY POSSIBLE:

He does the same thing with the lyrics he borrows for (coffee’s for closers). Pete’s poem sets the tone for fairy-tale storytelling right at the beginning: “It all started with some friends and a van, a kick drum inside my ribs, preaching electric into a microphone stand.” These beginning images are fond: holding up red cups at house parties, falling asleep together on the grass during festivals, laughing. But Patrick carves those lines out and brackets them with “I will never believe in anything again, we will never believe again.” What an answer to this poem out of Patrick: to take those words and slap them between endless proclamations of not falling for that fairy tale again. Even worse, he tops it off with a rewrite of the “read the charts” line: the poem reads “you can get lonely when u only read the charts.” This feels like more on the theme of “you can get everything you want [but it’s never enough], but it won’t actually make you happy.” You can read the charts, and FOB would be on top of them, but it’s lonely up there, and you need more than that. But the line in (coffee’s for closers) goes: “Only get lonely when you read the charts.” The movement of that “only” shifts the line for me. There are a bunch of ways to read it, but for me it reads like: “You only get lonely when you remember you’re in a band. You’re so busy running around being the life of the party, you’re never, ever lonely unless you’re paying attention to your band.”

The thing is, I consider that poem a fond and wistful love poem from Pete to Patrick, trying to reach across a great chasm, and at first the pain of it is how Patrick initially writes songs that take those lines and rejects them, twists them, spits them back out. Eventually he doesn't. Eventually he soothes the lines back into answering love songs. But in the beginning, he writes songs that are fiery rejections of the mood of this poem, and (coffee's for closers) is one of them. Pete's poem reads all us believers still believe. Patrick in this song writes, over and over and over again, slamming it home, I will never believe again. Take that, Pete Wentz! Never! Again!

To me it's just a brutal song about hating how everything turned out but not seeing a way out of it (I want everything to change and stay the same). The Genius annotation says throw your cameras in the air is about how people always film concerts these days, but I think that's wrong. I mean, maybe, although the song was written in 2008 when cell phone taping was still a fairly new phenomenon. But I think this line is really a rumination on fame, on feeling like everywhere you look there are cameras in your face, and it's not about concerts, it's about your life. Girls used to follow you around...until you got cold, and you were no longer the current big thing, and then it's lonely there in the spotlight, where no one's having a good time, the hands they wave in the air are all cameras pointed at you, hoping to catch the next mistake, and everything that was supposed to be good and great, all those pretty promises Pete Wentz made back in the summer fest days when you fell asleep on the grass turned into this. You've become something I don't even recognize, and I'm just your mascot, some laughable gimmick everyone makes fun of, and you love the mayhem more than the love that was all around you, you threw all that love away like you didn't even want it, and I will never believe in anything again. Change will come, and nothing good is going to come of that, either, because you don't like things the way they are but you know that changing them isn't going to turn out well, either.

This song is just so much. It's so angrily hiatus. It's such a demonstration of how much they had broken down around each other.

But it's okay. Because on the other side of it, eventually, Patrick takes this same poem and makes it into "Favorite Record," so it turns out all right in the end. Happily ever after (below the waist)

[bedforddanes75]

fucking crying at swifties posting her lyrics and talking about "shes such a poet" "this clears _" and i read them and its like. "i killed your mother but shes always gonna be mom like bomb because youre bombs to my heart" or something Like please you arent helping yourselves

[cosmicdorito]

"hozier my cottagecore lesbian bog man" shut the fuck up

[oldtestleper]

geniuslyrics should have an option to challenge other contributors to a real life bare handed fight to the death

[geffenrecords]

korn is so interesting cos I know their whole thing is like fucked up youth of the 90s but every single behind the scenes or interview u watch.....I've never seen a band that like just has so much fun together. like wow they really were all just friends making music together .

[pikslasrce]

maybe i should give mitski another try

[swampthing07]

WHEN THE CONNECTIONS YOU WERE MAKING IN YOUR MIND ACTUALLY WERE SOMETHING

[burstingsunrise]

it's irrationally upsetting to me how frequently genius lyrics are incorrect and yet are accepted as reality. especially when it's luke's lyrics. get that perfection right please.

[lennon666]

One of the best songs ever actually

[stabbystiletto]

💐💐💐🎶🎶🎶💐💐💐

🎵Salice d'amor delizia!

Ombra pietosa appresta,

di mie sciagure immemore🎵

[izzy-b-hands]

I enjoyed Please Please Please and Espresso and have been listening to the new album this morning while I try and get stuff posted to AO3 and uh

There's one other song that's nice, otherwise it's your generally mid but perfectly fine pop album

Except for that fucking lyric in Slim Pickins. Girl, what the entire fuck was that vaguely homophobic bs abt exactly lmao

[loveletterworm]

It's interesting that this poll ended with "No but I've heard of them" slightly ahead of "Yes". This implies there is an extremely slightly statistically significant number of people who have been recommended the j arthur keenes band but didn't actually want to listen to it, which is odd given its obscurity. Slightly mysterious.

[eldritch-boulevard]

Set the groove

Set the mood

Check out what’s on the tube

Close the day

Time to play

Put the sounds on the stereo

Drift away

Drift away

Drift away

Drift away

Drift away

Hello people a hundred years from now

It may not make much difference, but I’ll say it anyhow

Let me tell you of the planet and what we’re doing now

It really is bizarre enough to make me take it slow

There are cartoon creations made of people and of lines

Dance around the T.V., and they dance around our minds

A bunch of different holy men pointing different ways

Don’t think, do think, watch out what you say

And we all tried

Yes, we tried

We all kept pluggin’ like a salmon up a stream

Some of us were dancin’

But some of us were screamin’

But we tried

Oh, how we tried

Bunch of different funny people livin’ by the sea

And trying to get to other planets, tryin’ to start another scene

Leaders said, “Come pay us, show you what we mean”

But I learned not to trust them, they were not what they seemed (Hot!)

We all kept pluggin’ like a salmon up a stream

Some of us were dancin’

Some of us were screamin’

While we tried

Oh, we tried

Marie, she looked like Linda with fifty extra teeth

Linda made the cover of a family magazine

And Bonnie was the singer that made both of them dream

But they all lost to disco, the current mating theme

Mm, I’ve never seen a hero

I’ve got five million dreams

I’ve never been to Harlem, but I been somewhere in between

As long as I can keep movin’, I guess I’ll keep up with the scene

I’m dancin’ to the rhythm of the road

Yes, I’m dancin’ to the rhythm of the road

Set the mood

Set the groove

Checkin’ out what’s on the tube

It’s the close of the day

It’s the time to play

I’ll put some sounds on the stereo

Drift away

Drift away

Drift away

[happylandfill23]

when i'm listening to a song i like sometimes i type it into google search bar

[keeper-not-hero]

Meet the grahams is like an artisan crafted nuclear missile that targets one person but splits into like seperate warheads while descending and each warhead is targeting and individual limb

it was vile. man put the gwyn theme as the beat and went door to door dismantling drake like he was peeling a fucking egg. destroyed that man. and drake's weak ass response???????????? the beat boring the lyrics nonsensical, kendrick said it best, "you never gave us nothing to believe in" so why should we believe that he was planning this all along??? ALSO THE "I'M TOO FAMOUS TO BE A PEDO" LINE???? MISREPESENTING MOTHER I SOBER??? PRAYING THAT MAN'S DOWNFALL IS LONG ARDUOUS AND PAINFUL BECAUSE HE DESERVES NOTHING LESS

[sun-3-160]

Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) (French Version) my absolute beloved