Lyrics for Cubicles as interpreted by MooWasHere

Cubicles Lyrics
It's the tearing sound of love-notes
Drowning out the gray stained windows
And the view outside is sterile
But I'm only two cubes down
I'll photocopy all the things that we could be
If you took the time to notice me
But you can't now, I don't blame you
And it's not your fault that no one ever does
-Chorus-
But you don't work here anymore
Its just a vacant 3 by 4
And they might fill your place
A temporary stand-in for your face

It happens all the time
And I can't help but think I'll die alone

So I'll spend my time with strangers
A condition that is terminal
In this water-cooler romance
And its coming to a close
We could be in the park and dancing by a tree
Kicking over blades we see
Or a dark beach with a black view
As pin-pricks in the velvet break our fall
-Chorus-
I know you don't work here anymore, I know you don't work here anymore
I know you don't work here anymore, I know you don't work here anymore
I know you don't work here anymore, I know you don't work here anymore
Sometimes I think I'll die alone, sometimes I think I'll die alone
Sometimes I think I'll die alone, live and breathe and die alone
Sometimes I think I'll die alone, sometimes I think I'll die alone
Sometimes I think I'll die alone, I'd think I'd love to die alone

I think I'd love to die alone

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robgp83
03-10-2003

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i can't believe no one has commented on this song yet. one of my favorite mcr songs. i have a few friends who are internet/web design guys who sit in cubes at big companies and theyre all about bringing home the paycheck and getting their little piece of "the american dream" just like everyone else. this song is all about being different, about not doing that with your life. the "i think id love to die alone" is a reference to just being different and doing what you want to do with your life instead of working for the man and being a carbon copy of everyone else in society. if fitting in means sitting in a cube, i for one want to "live and breathe and die alone" ...

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robgp83
03-10-2003

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i can't believe no one has commented on this song yet. one of my favorite mcr songs. i have a few friends who are internet/web design guys who sit in cubes at big companies and theyre all about bringing home the paycheck and getting their little piece of "the american dream" just like everyone else. this song is all about being different, about not doing that with your life. the "i think id love to die alone" is a reference to just being different and doing what you want to do with your life instead of working for the man and being a carbon copy of everyone else in society. if fitting in means sitting in a cube, i for one want to "live and breathe and die alone" ...

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starry_eyed
03-14-2003

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very insightful. nodded along the whole time i must say robqp83

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price1207
03-16-2003

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this song is about obsession and rejection. he used cubicles as a metaphor to any situation where every day you see the same girl and fall in love with her. "It's the tearing sound of love-notes Casting out the gray stained windows " means that he writes love notes to her, but never has the nerve to give them to her, so he throws them out a window. basically the song is about loving someone who you see every day but doesn't even notice you exist.

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dumpweed049
03-28-2003

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Awesome song. Thats all i got to say.

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Geir_B
04-11-2003

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Not to compare the bands or anything, but I think this is sort of a modern-day version of Smokies "Living next door to Alice"
Great song

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chodewick
06-05-2003

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this just reminds me of dilbert or office space because it seems you could relate all of mcr's songs to movies and shows

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Choke-Me
06-07-2003

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i think its about someone he was in love with at one time and is still in love with them yet they dont feel the same and he tries to fill the void with other people but its just not the same and he will always love them and miss them.

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DarkerShadeofWinter
06-27-2004

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I was seriosuly just thinikng about it being about office space.. It could be.. Because if youve seen office space youd have some sort of idea.

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greenday_boy
07-05-2004

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this is unbeliveblay excellent are these a small band or wot but i dont care these are superb

congrats small band

long live my chemical romance

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smallBlackheart
09-23-2004

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This song kicks ass. The idea of going to school and working your ass off, and ending up working in the sorry ass job sucks. When I think of this song I think about American Beauty in this weird way. So yeah, this song rocks!

P.s I heard they were being played on MTV, u guys are better than that.



Love from Salinas Cali.

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marydory
12-09-2004

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when i listen to this song, i can't help thinking of a book called '1984'... in this book, society is led by a party and the called "Big Brother", which controlled completely their lives and acts... sometimes people disappeared without a trace because the party found that they could represent a risk by being alive, and its like is said in the song...
"But you don't work here anymore
Its just a vacant 3 by 4
And they might fill your place
A temporary stand-in for your face

It happens all the time
And I can't help but think I'll die alone"
and there are also other parts that are related... i dunno, but thats what i see...

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sotuyo87
12-11-2004

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That's the exact same thing i was thinking earlier today, Winston couldn't express how he felt for fear of dissappearing himself. He didnt know how many others (if any) knew what he knew, making him feel like an outcast, alone. If the book and this song aren't related, it's a damn strange coincidence.

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redcherries
01-30-2005

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in this song, gerard is in love with a woman at his work. and she never notices him. 'a temporary stand in for your face'. it means that he's in love with this woman who has never noticed him so he replaces her with women of interest, but they are really just stand-ins and she is the real one he loves.
"you don't work here anymore it's just a vacant 3 by 4" (it means she doesn't work at his job anymore. and her spot is empty. it is also a metaphor meaning she's not the one he loves anymore. but no one is filling her spot becasue he thinks he'd "love to die alone"
he basically cannot find a woman who is meant for him and it never works out so he thinks he's meant to die alone. and then he ends up liking that idea because he won't have to put up with so much bullshit
-pixiepunk

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demolition lover
02-08-2005

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great song cant wait 2 c them in april!xx

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GeraldWayObsessed
03-02-2005

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i love this song every mcr song is amazing and thts hard to say bout most bands and i agree wit smallBlackheart pffft mtv way to good for mtv
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ILoveGerardWay
03-03-2005

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**previously GeraldWayObsessed** srry bout the typos with his name

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Lique
03-04-2005

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I love MCR's love songs. I mean, who else writes love songs that take place in the workplace or in Dawn of the Dead?

I think this song is about how we waste so much of our time in "cubicles," working our asses off, when "We could be in the park and dancing by a tree/Kicking over blades we see/Or a dark beach with a black view/As pin-pricks in the velvet break our fall." It's about being part of the system. The person he's singing to freed her/himself from the office and moved on, while he can't.

God. What an excellent song.

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RomeosNotDead
03-05-2005

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To me just like some others said it's just a story of love and not being recognized by the one you're in love with or losing that one and it's set in an office. An eveyday situation that almost everybody's gone through. Gerard sings that sometimes he thinks he'll die alone, because that is the feeling you get when you can't connect with that one or are being rejected... maybe there is something deeper to it though... awesome song btw

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FAILEDxROMANCE
04-30-2005

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this is the best MCR i've heard so far besides maybe Our Lady Of Sorrows or Bury Me In Black...

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Kurdt-Kobain
05-14-2005

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This is by far one of the the worst band ive ever heard! the singer takes huge shots in the mouth the guitar players suck and the drummer is a big stupid fatass as for the bass player he takes it in the ass as well. they try to be all hard and shit and get attention by little 14 year old girlsbut cant get any legal age cunt even though they dont want it. they are not hard and never will be they are whiney and pussified. im not saying i dont like any band that is popular ive liked green day since the beginning and i went to go see them live with MCR and MCR was so goddamn pathetic it was sickening the singer tried to be all hard by saying fuck between every song at least once but when they started playing and whining like little 3 year old nutless faggots i came to realize how bad they really suck i couldnt believe i didnt commit suicide before greenday took stage. how can anyone like this bullshit and you all canb ridicule me because i dont give a damn because i know if a MCR fan met me on the street they wouldnt say shit because they are all pussies who cant beat me. actually i want you tyo post negatively about me so i can hunt you down beat your ass and destroy all of your faggot ass MCR gear.

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DeathByPoison
06-01-2005

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To Kurdt-Kobain: FUCK YOU ASSHOLE!!!!!! if your all about wasting time talking down MCR, then why the Hell are you on this page anyway????? i mean, it's about them, so if you didn't like them, then you wouldn't be here. also, you probably haven't had 1/2 the trouble that everyone else here has had, so when people say fuck or act sad, you prolly think we're a buch of faggs. but for future reference, i have seen 10x the shit you have and have put up with it, so fuck off. last, but sure as hell not least, i haven't seen you singing on stage and working hard to get where they are now like they have, so don't talk about shit you don't know anything about!!!!

Back to song meanings.
I think this song it kind of about how you can be sitting in class or at work and start daydreaming about your so called "love" (if there is such a thing) and how your mind can wander. it's about all those times you want to tell that someone how you feel, or just want to see them, but you know you can't because they're with someone else or don't like you THAT way. so you just sit there, watching them and every time they look over at you, you have to turn away and pretend you were actually working. the whole "fill in for your face" part is about lying to them and saying you like someone else or just that you don't like them, every though you do. The vacant 3x4 is about how you "love" this person, but since you can't have them, you still feel empty inside, even if you have it all.

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GERARDisGOD
06-05-2005

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i think this song is about a guy who worked at this place and there desk areas were in cubicles and he wa always quiet and he was in love with this one girl, but never told her and no one ever noticed him especially not her. and he describes how they couldve been. but then she left..or something idont no.

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blinks not gay u r
06-06-2005

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well to me this song is about this female that he loved and they used to work together but she died and he really misses her and he thinks he'll never get her back...

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bunnymix
06-07-2005

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I think it's about how he likes this girl, she never seems to notice him. She loses her job, she's being replaced and how he never got a chance to talk/take her out and in the end he's trying to come to terms with being alone

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