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Old 02-03-2005, 04:14 PM   #1
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Interpretations of the Lyrical Variety

Heres the deal, someone posts lyrics and you come up with an interpretation. Tell if its a literal interpretation or a metaphorical one.

For example:
Alkaline Trio - Take Lots With Alcohol

Hello what the hell am I doin' here
That's a really nice suit
This is a really comfortable chair
See I don't know if you can help me or not
Cause I don't feel sick
But the pains in my head have almost put me
Underground
I don't really care if I'm healthy or not
Just clean my head up doc
I'll give you anything you want
See I don't know why I don't fall in love
Well maybe I know why and maybe you could make it stop
Then we'll cut it up and bury it and leave it
Underground
And I'll take to wishing and fall under
Sleeping safe and sound
Just give me medicine prescribe me anything
Just knock me out and walk me through the door
I have no desire to see through my own eyes anymore
Hello what the hell are you doing here
You made a really strange face
This is a really uncomfortable air
I see I'm boring you, maybe I bore myself too
That's why I need help, I'm cleaning blood off dusty shelves
I been cut up in this room so many times it might take days
And those stress cracks in the wood
How nicely the soak up the stains
Been telling myself these jokes for so long well so long
I'm a has been who is heckled on the stage
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in this song, it could go either way, on the top, he could ACTUALLY be talking about talking to a doctor about his stress problems.

At the end, it seems much more likely that the shelves are metaphorical in the sense that they mean the support that a relationship, the one he's been stressing over, is painful and stressed, and he's spilt blood over it. Which may be a reference to cutting.
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Okay, unless you want to continue interpretation of THIS song, next person posts lyrics.
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