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Losing a whole year
I remember you and me used to spend the whole goddamned day in bed
Losing a whole year
Lying in your room we'd lay like dogs
The phone would ring like a joke that's left unsaid
Rich daddy left you with a parachute
Your voice sounds like money and your face is cute
But your daddy left you with no love
You touch everything with a velvet glove and
Now you want to try a life of sin
You want to be down with the down and in
Always copping my truths
I kind of get the feeling like I'm being used
And now I realize you never heard
One goddamned thing I ever said
Losing a whole year
Took your stuff and put it in the basement
When I found out what the smile on your face meant
I've seen you pop that check
Craning your neck at my car wreck
It always seems the juice used to flow
In the car, in the kitchen you were good to go
Now we're stuck with the tube
A sink full of dishes and some aqualube
I remember you and me used to spend the whole damned day in bed
Losing a whole year
And if it's not the defense then you're on the attack
When you start talking I hear the Prozac
Convinced you've found your place
With the pierced queer teens in Cyberspace
When you were yourself it tasted sweet
But it sours into a routine deceit
Well this drama is a bore
And I don't want to play no more
I remember you and me used to spend the whole damned day in bed
Losing a whole year
I remember you and me used to spend the whole goddamned day in bed
Losing a whole year
Lying in your room we'd lay like dogs
The phone would ring like a joke that's left unsaid
Rich daddy left you with a parachute
Your voice sounds like money and your face is cute
But your daddy left you with no love
You touch everything with a velvet glove and
Now you want to try a life of sin
You want to be down with the down and in
Always copping my truths
I kind of get the feeling like I'm being used
And now I realize you never heard
One goddamned thing I ever said
Losing a whole year
Took your stuff and put it in the basement
When I found out what the smile on your face meant
I've seen you pop that check
Craning your neck at my car wreck
It always seems the juice used to flow
In the car, in the kitchen you were good to go
Now we're stuck with the tube
A sink full of dishes and some aqualube
I remember you and me used to spend the whole damned day in bed
Losing a whole year
And if it's not the defense then you're on the attack
When you start talking I hear the Prozac
Convinced you've found your place
With the pierced queer teens in Cyberspace
When you were yourself it tasted sweet
But it sours into a routine deceit
Well this drama is a bore
And I don't want to play no more
I remember you and me used to spend the whole damned day in bed
Losing a whole year
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for the rest of you, why criticize one's ability to connect a great song with a great piece of literature? the connection of the two in itself is insightful, and lovely for the single reason being that in someone's mind the two were intertwined which makes the song more fluid for the reader to associate with.
"I remember you and me used to spend
The whole goddamned day in bed" -- Gatsby and Daisy used to be intense lovers but then Gatsby went and made his fortune only to find that Daisy had already found another husband. This nostalgia is precisely the impossible that Gatsby wants to relive.
"The phone would ring/Like a joke that's left unsaid" -- phones are a major motif/symbol in the Great Gatsby, which represent the superficiality that comes with technology. The irony is that phones are not the same as human beings, which makes sense with this song.
"Your voice sounds like money/and your face is cute" -- precisely Daisy Buchanan
"Rich daddy left you with a parachute...
But your daddy left you with no love" -- I think the 'daddy' is Tom Buchanan, because he is rich but is not loving at all.
"Now you want to try a life of sin
You want to be down with the down and in" -- This is similar to Gatsby's and Daisy's affair. She is afraid to stand up to Tom, so she resorts to cheating on him.
"Craning your neck at the car wreck" -- Daisy has a car accident near the end where she kills her husband's lover-- representing her destructiveness (of the relationship too)
"And if it's not the defense then you're on the attack
When you start talking
I hear the Prozac
Convinced you've found your place
With the pierced queer teens in Cyberspace" -- Again, a reference to her voice, which is money but also Prozac. This can be extended to mean that the money and materialism that the girl in the song trades in for real love and a fake sense of belonging does not make her truly happy.
Not to mention that I always thought "Forget Myself" was about Gatsby. That song also makes references to telephones and her voice. If 3eb referenced Great Gatsby in one song, I bet they did in multiple.
Its about how he was with this one girl for so long and things seemed so great; he was oblivious and so wrapped around her that things would be going on around him and he wouldnt care.
when they broke up he finally realized how she used him for money, sex, etc, was never actually ever there for him, and he lost an entire year wasting it on this girl.
and all those things he thought were cute and mysterious about that girl, he now realizes were just hiding the truth. she always hid things and would be quick to defend herself and kept her secret buried.
it was fine in the beginning but after time and time of drama he's sick of it and is just done.
From my knowledge (take it as you leave it) the song was drafted from the memory of drug use by Stephen Jenkins and a girlfriend that he had who along with he used Methamphetamine over a period of time that inspired this song. I know from personal experience how easy it is to fall within this kind of drug use and find yourself "losing a whole year." The song within itself is a sly cautionary tale about the dangers of finding yourself not only in the allure of drugs, but also the allure of love forlorn because it is love denied. Keep that in mind. Whenever you get the glint of love in your perspective, remember that there are always caveats.
In the car, in the kitchen you were good to go Now we're stuck with the tube" So he has waisted a year with a girl that only wanted sex and now that it has stopped he doesnt know what to do
"I remember you and me used to spend
The whole goddamned day in bed
Losing a whole year
Hiding in your room we'd lay like dogs
The phone would ring
Like a joke that's left unsaid"
Before we were living together, we'd only have one night and day together a week, because of our work schedule, and because he lived so far away. So, we'd fit a week's worth of sex into 24 hours, only leaving the bed to go get snacks and drinks. He lived with a roommate, but we never saw him because we were "hiding in" his room. And we'd never answer our phones, because we were so focused on each other.
"But your daddy left you with no love
You touch everything with a velvet glove"
I don't think my husband's parents are very demonstrative with affection or emotion (I don't really know, I've only met them a few times since they live out of state.) So, a lot of times, I feel starved for any kind of affection, because my husband kind of keeps his hands to himself, and if I want a hug, I have to go GET it.
"It always seems the juice used to flow
In the car, in the kitchen you were good to go
Now we're stuck with the tube
A sink full of dishes and some aqua lube"
We use to have sex whereever, whenever, but with two kids, we just can't. But, this song is powerful to me, because I gave birth to our daughter a year ago, and we've had sex, I kid you not, 5 times this year, so it's like we lost an entire year.
Sorry if it's TMI, but that's what this song makes ME think about.