The Promise Ring – Nothing Feels Good

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I don't know east texas from Louisiana. And I don't know Alabama or where Atlanta lies tonight. And Indianapolis. Summers in park and recreation pools, and carsick vacations in size eleven in "I'm going to heaven" shoes. I don't know god; I don't know anyone or if anything will be all right. Like I don't know Billy Ocean from the ocean floor. I don't own any albums, I don't know anything. I don't go to college anymore. I've got my hands on the one hand, but I don't know where to put them. But on the other hand, I don't know if I'll talk my way out of this one tonight.

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    General Comment:perfect song about feeling lost and hopeless.
    Flag brockknowsbeston October 22, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:this song is so sad, beautiful song nonetheless.
    Flag BearsAndBeetson June 12, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:i just got out of high school and im so lost right now.... so really, i feel that this song speaks to me on a whole other level at this point. i dont know what to do with myself, and feel that im losing contact with so many of the people i once felt so comfortable around. Everything is thrown into disarray for me right now (not trying to sound over dramatic) but I really think this song is just about all the feelings a person might get in a transitional period of their life.
    Flag SVTristanon October 06, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:this song is basically just adressing the akwardness of being a confused adolensence after high school. there are so many memories and things just flooding you all the time that your just sorta reduced to nothing."I don't know god; I don't know anyone or if anything will be all right. Like I don't know Billy Ocean from the ocean floor. I don't own any albums, I don't know anything. I don't go to college anymore." this section probably captures that idea the best. its like the speakers purpose is now in question for them. things they once knew really arent so solid and valid now.
    Flag Konfusion28on November 29, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:this is a good example of when one thing is bringing you down and you can't help but think of all the things that you don't like about yourself or things you miss or things that aren't going right and just nothing makes you feel good. you get bombarded by it all and don't know how to escape the bad mood (I don't know if I'll talk my way out of this one tonight.)
    Flag kate06on November 11, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:I also have never heard the last line of this version. But I really thoroughly love this song. I love that The Promise Ring is almost sloppy sounding sometimes. It's not a poor quality recording or performance, it's just slightly more real than most canned studio recordings. I like that they sound like real people with real feelings. And I like that this song is written in a "stream of consciousness" sort of style.
    Flag jillianwinteron June 12, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:i dont have this version, but the last line sounds like Texas is the Reason's "There's no way I can talk myself out of this one tonight (the drinking song)". maybe they borrowed the line? (TITR's cd came out a year earlier). regardless, capn jazz and braid were known for using the same lines in songs, maybe it's something like that!
    Flag sean7711on May 26, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:yae "eyes like july" has it more. the part about parks and recreation, and car sick vacation and shoes is all nostalgic about childhood. he is thinking back to when he was young with his family because like someone said earlier he is at an awkard time in his life after college where people are just pretty damn confused. i think its more of a frustrated, nostalgic, confused song.
    Flag gregisgregon April 04, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:i personally don.t think its all that literal. he says "summers in park & recreation pools" like, the department of parks & recreation, not park as in a car. i think the "going to heaven" shoes refer to good shoes, like ones you'd wear to church.

    i think its basically about just being lost, confused, alone. he doesn.t know where to put his hands, and i think the reference is vaguely referring to a clock. he doesn.t know what to make of life; he doesn.t know where he.s going.
    Flag eyes like julyon January 10, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:This is a very awkward point in this guys life. He is trying to start this romance with this man/woman however how does he start? He is a college drop out/graduate who is untravelled. He isnt one of those people that knows everything about music and whose favorite part of vacation is which shoes he will wear. He has spent his summers in park (not drive or neutral, probably sexual reference) and he is at a loss as to how to start this romance comfortably.
    Flag UFstevenon May 08, 2004   Link

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