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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LikeGhostsAndSnow
06-24-2005

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I know this is weird, but i think that this song is about some guy that is incapable of loving that falls in love with a woman he works with and then kills her and is sad and misses her, hense, "this happens all the time". I think that this means that he has something wrong with him so that whoever he loves, he kills. And i think that he's trying to convince himself that he'd love to die alone. But that's just what I think.

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B12
07-12-2005

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did he ever have a job like this or is he trying to describe a similar situation?

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gerdy pie
07-26-2005

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I think this song is about how he loved this one girl and she didn't take the time to notice him and he thought of everything they could be, then he gets over her or tries to. He tries to fill her place, so he's going in and out of relationships trying to get past this one girl. He is doing everything he can to get his mind off of this love that he has, but he knows that he can't. He feels like its terminal to even try...and then he comes to think that he would be better off alone. And he would love to die alone. I don't know, maybe that's wrong. That's just what I get from it

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blackthornz
09-03-2005

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ok thiz mite juzt b me but if u have thiz song on nd u r not realli listenin 2 the lyrics it kinda soundsz lyk he iz in love with a temp u lyk 1 of the people that temporialy fill in for some one i dont no it juzt might b me when i have the song on nd i am not realli paying attention to the song but try it it soundz lyk he iz in freaken love temp itz probably most definately not what it iz about i no but still nd ok thatz it i m done yea

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mcr_j1mmy
09-09-2005

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Also to Kurdt-Kobain: Dude, MCR was voted one of the worlds most rock n roll bands.
How is that shitty?
You have major issues dude. (By the way, by saying dude, im calling u a camels cock)

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B12
09-15-2005

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Please spell correctly blackthorns, i can't make out a word you're saying, and it's a shame cause i think you're on to something here.

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B12
09-15-2005

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Please spell correctly blackthorns, i can't make out a word you're saying, and it's a shame cause i think you're on to something here.

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blackthornz
09-17-2005

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dear B12 and all the other people who apparently can't read. I really have to teach you to read but i am too busy right now so i'll just write my little message again in quote on qoute "proper english" ..... ok this might just be me but if you have this song on and you are not really listening to the lyrics it kind of sounds like he is in love with a temp you know like one of the people that temporially fill in for some one i don't know it just might be me when i have the song on and i am not really paying attention to the song but try it, it sounds like he is in freaken love temp itz probably most definately not what it is about i no but still and ok thats it i m done yea.... ok thats it are you all happy now? o and by the way i have no idea what i am saying and i never will i just ramble

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blackthornz
09-17-2005

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o yea and i forgot B12 it is blackthornz NOT blackthorns what you dont have a z on your computer or whatever i know there is no real different but still hey don't say it i know what ypur thinking shut up ummm yea

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blackthornz
09-17-2005

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o yea and i forgot B12 it is blackthornz NOT blackthorns what you dont have a z on your computer or whatever i know there is no real different but still hey don't say it i know what ypur thinking shut up ummm yea

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xMikeyxRuthx
10-19-2005

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Awesome song about a guy who works in an office and loves a colleague, but she doesn't even notice him. But also about the conformity of modern life and some other symbolic stuff which everyone else is talking about.

I love how MCR do that. At first glance, their songs may appear just to be a single-thread story or statement, but if you look closer there are hidden metaphors and meanings as well. All this put together with great instrumentalists, an enthusiasm which never fails to make me smile, and a pretty hot vocalist, guitarist and bassist? Yes, please! I want MCR. NOW.

Mikey Ruth

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mcrman176
12-17-2005

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its about being in love with a girl who doesnt know you exist. and he wants to talk to her but cant hence "the tearing sound of love notes ,casted out these grey stained windows"

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asdfg
12-24-2005

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one thing with songs like these they have allot of meanings to different people, for me the song is actually about a relationship but they broke up because she fell out of love with him and even though they were together she still felt like a stranger to him, 'i`ll photocopy all the things that we could be' enthusiasm for his new girlfriend, 'if you took the time to notice me' if only she showed the same enthusiasm.
when he says 'you dont work here any more' could be a metaphor for 'you dont love me anymore', 'vacant 3 by 4' could be her heart that he is no longer in, and when it says 'they might fill your place, a temporary stand in for your face' i think ''they'' is himself, and by ''filling her place with a temporary stand in for her face'' is him trying to get over the one he loves by spendin time with other women just trying to forget, like the part ''spending time with strangers''
'i think i`ll love to die alone' i think could also be 'i think i`ll learn to die alone'.
so bassicaly i think its about a relationship of two people who brake up because they wearnt in the same place as eachother, he loved her and she might of but just got bored of him, hence 'you dont love me anymore' she did but not as much as he did to her.

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asdfg
12-24-2005

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love this song to death by the way

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septimusphoenix
12-27-2005

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it's about those people who get obsessive over certain people, and may eventually lead to stalking. this guy has fallen for a woman that workeda few cubicles away and she's gone. he makes images of their life together in his head, even if they never happened and never will. she was also someone he could relate to in their confinement in cubicles

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distortedsilence
12-29-2005

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as far as i know gerard (or any of the others) has never worked in an office. this song makes me laugh because it is a serious and heartfelt song about someone leavin their job.
my least favourite song on bullets.

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Kezia_my_darling
12-31-2005

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alrighty, I think that this song means that the person whoever gerard or yeah loved someone that was close to him but never had the chance to tell them or talk to them about it before it was to late.

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HelenaFan
12-31-2005

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Okay this is for MooWasHere:
Where the hell did you casting out the gray stained windows? It's :Drowning out these gray stained windows.

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HelenaFan
12-31-2005

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This for Kurdt Kobain: Fuck you!! If you hate MCR so much then why the fuck did you come on this page?! You just should've went to your pussy ass bands that you like and look at their songs and write you feel. Instead you dicided to come on this page and write shit about one of the best bands on earth.
Anyway back to songmeanings
I think this song is about Gerard and how he liked this girl and wrote loves notes to her but ripped them when she got fired. "It's the tearing sound of love notes." And he can't help but to think that he would die alone because all the girls he dated weren't right for him so he figured out that it would be better for him to die alone so he won't half to deal with the bullshit.

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asdfg
01-01-2006

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dont be so hard on moowashere, his hearts in the rite place,

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asdfg
01-01-2006

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oh btw i dont think mcr try to act hard at all, i mean just look at em, plus dont get carried away with ya self Kurdt Kobain, no band is actually hard, so i dont even really know wat your point is mate, oh and as for acting hard lol u should take a look in the mirror little boi, wats the point in writin on a forum 'im gonna beat u up, bla bla bla' wen its never gonna happen, those are the acts of someone who aint 'hard' oh, and you also sound like a homophobic faggot, get it? probably not coz ur stupid, it means u hate yourself and u dont sound tough, u sound like a gay pretendin that he is not gay by acting homophobic, like an adolf hitler if you will lol,
one more thing
you just got serrrrrrrrrrrrrved,

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littlehelena_notok
01-18-2006

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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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starcrossedlover
02-01-2006

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I've been so confused reading the lyrics for "casting out the gray stained windows" cause i thought my ears were going wack or smthg, so thanks HelenaFan, now i know i'm not loosin my mind.

Oh, btw, this song is so awesome as well as every single other my chem song.
yeah, the story's realy cool and everything, but i was wondering if it was just concept or real, but yeah, to Kurdt-Kobain, a I dunno, but I'd lmao if you'd come back here to read all mcr fans dissings, cause if you are out of your mind and reading this, I think I got a call for you: it was the f-loser badtaste group, they wanted their music back.

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meridell5
02-17-2006

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I love this song. It's amazing how MCR can continue to bring out original, powerful songs from beginning to end on EVERY album so far, and they DO rock.

And ASDFQ I agree, I mean no band is "hard". All bands have deep songs, love songs, sad songs, suicidal songs etc. When they write songs, they're not ALWAYS going to be feeling like they have to kill themselves or that they need to murder people.

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B12
04-13-2006

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thanks blackthorns, i'm all new to that slang so you're gonna have to talk properly if you want me to understand.

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