Lyrics for Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl as interpreted by fallacies

Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl Lyrics
Used to be the one of the rotten ones
And I liked you for that
Now you're all gone, got your make-up on
And you're not coming back

Bleachin' your teeth, smiling flash
Talking trash, under your breath
Bleachin' your teeth, smiling flash
Talking trash, under my window

Park that car, drop that phone,
Sleep on the floor, dream about me

Used to be the one of the rotten ones
And I liked you for that
Now you're all gone, got your make-up on
And you're not coming back

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TheShoreline
01-15-2007

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I'm commenting on this again,
I had this song on repeat when I first got this CD
but the song is most likely about a girl losing her best friend to the popular crowd.
Hence the make-up part, its not about a lover.
She wants the old girl that was her best friend, not the fake plastic popular girl she now knows.

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StephRox
01-16-2007

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I think this song has a lot of meaning involving teenagers. I think it talks about how teenagers have no say in they're life, rules and guidlines are set for them to follow by parents and teachers. They are told what to do...... Second I think it talks about friendships and growing apart as you change and get older.... Third I think it talks about the awkwardness and fear developed when you relize that you are almost an adult and that you will soon be the only person in control of ur own life...... And lastly I think it might have something to do with teenagers feeling like they are just rusting and not doin anything important, they don't get to do what they want and they are always doing the same thing over and over.... almost giving them a feeling of being confined and claustrophobic. As for the title, I would think almost ever teenager goes through this and that it is more difficult for girl then guys.

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alexis.xox
02-07-2007

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This song is so incredbly beautiful. I think any teenager can relate to it, and I've listened to it with a wide range of emotions. Sad, happy, estatic, in love, in lust, hurt, lonely, depressed, angsty, childish, grown up... the list goes on. This is a song for ANY mood and it always makes me feel so in love!!!

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silverhan
02-09-2007

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This song means the entire world to me. The lyrics are perfect in every single way possible, nothing can compare to this, ever.

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SleepOnTheFloor
02-24-2007

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"Park That Car, Drop That Phone, Sleep On The Floor, Dream About Me"

Those lyrics are ...amazing.
It hasto be one of the most meaningful songs to me.

And as for meaning, I think its more or less, about a girl who liked a sort-of ... "Bad-Boy"

But he changed hmself, and she wishes he didnt, because his dark side was what attaracted her to him.

But she still like.. loves him and wants him to think about her..

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Indie/Rock/Roll
04-01-2007

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i LOVE broken social scene - they r so great!

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notethetrees
05-07-2007

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i think its about best friends. maybe they were kinda considered losers and then one of them became 'popular'. i might be influenced by experience. beautiful song anyway.

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TheShoreline
05-21-2007

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People relate songs too quickly to ex-lovers. I always thought this song was about a girl, in high school, whos best friend left her for the popular crowd, hence, "now you're all gone got your make up on and you're not coming back".
On that note, the end, "park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me", deals with this girl enjoying simplicity of life, such as just hanging with friends. However, her friend, is very materalistic now and isn't the admirable friend she once had.
"Drop that phone" Could refer to how the girl is constantly on her cell phone.
"Sleep on the floor" This may relate to alcohol, maybe a reference to past experiences the girl may have had with her old friend under the influence and passing out on the floor.
"Dream about me" The girl is asking her old friend to reminisce the memories they had as best friends. The girl could be asking this either in the past during the sleepovers, or now that the girl is no longer her friend, and may hope reconcile or just to think of her now and then.
Hope that helped. It's good to have your own interpretation of songs though so don't take mine word for word.

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profoundsound
06-07-2007

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i turn 17 in 2 days-from the 2 posts above now i have a new view on the song, but i think it applies more to love

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billyhc
06-13-2007

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Why "Anthems" and not just one?

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raiseyourvoice
06-28-2007

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I'm a seventeen year-old girl and this really is my anthem.

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TheShoreline
06-29-2007

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Well I'm glad you read mine.

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Music_Is_Emotion
07-13-2007

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Mabye they're called Broken Social Scene for a reason... because very few people seem to be accually able to make out what they're singing. I find most of their songs to be a muffled mess of indecipherable 1 tone singing and bland music. Plus, how many people are in this band anyhow? Geezz, no wonder theres so many conflicting sounds. The only good thing about this band is Emily Haines. At least Metric and Stars are top notch. Just sayin people... :P

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konichiwaaa.
07-18-2007

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i'm probabaly mistaken but i've always believed that this song was about a person that grows up to be popular or famous & who leaves their friends behind.

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bicyclethieff
08-03-2007

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jesus, i had no idea the lead singer of metric did this song.

so beautiful!

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kc_accidental
08-04-2007

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I hate to say it, but i'm a seventeen year old girl, and this song gets to me.

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candidate
08-13-2007

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when i first heard this song it nearly made me cry.. its exactly what i wanted to tell my best friend at the time. i was in 8th grade and in the beginning of the schoolyear we decided we weren't going to prom and we'd hang out in the city instead. but when promtime came around someone asked her out and she cancelled her plans with me. we used to be really close and weren't really part of the popular crowd and it seemed like overnight she started wearing slutty outfits and flirting with boys we couldnt play sports or video games like we used to. i felt like she was such a traitor. it seems pretty stupid now, but at the time it was some serious shit. i still love the song though.

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RAINonSUNday
08-26-2007

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I think this song is, sadly, about me.

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ipod15
09-02-2007

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I agree with the majority here, this song is about a girl growing up, deciding to change and leaving her best friend(s). I almost wish this song had a happy ending. I reckon everyone can relate to it at some point in their life, whether 17 or not!

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kmmisgod
09-14-2007

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i saw a girl, changing, so indifferent to everything and just letting her life go by. waste away until she's just a teenage ho that she never really knew, that she's hiding behind.

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lilliebelle
10-07-2007

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For me... I'm sure someone has said what I'm about to say, but I'll give it my best shot.

When I first heard this song I saw desire in layers, which is how it usually is as a 17 year old. You want everything, a little of everything, and slowly you have to focus, choose, make decisions.

There's a desire here for childhood, certainly, for the way things used to be. "I liked you for that" tells me that this girl wanted her friend to stay the way she was, rotten, trash-talking, maybe a tom-boyish type of character.

Of course, they grow up and apart - one starts to wear makeup, drive, spend hours talking. This change is too much for the friend, who has the sudden desire to go back, take everything back and stay children.

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Jessops
10-13-2007

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i could listen to this song over and over again. Its one of my faves. Paticulary like the title, as i am a seventeen y.o girl!

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arcadeonline
10-26-2007

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I think it's about somebody who is close to you changing.

'Used to be the one of the rotten ones
And I liked you for that
Now you're all gone, got your make-up on
And you're not coming back'
Say's to me the narrator's person used to be like the narrator, but has now changed and isn't coming back. It could mean that the person the narrator is on about isn't part of a minority anymore. People look down on the narrators group, hence the 'rotton', but now the person has his/her 'make up' on and has changed for the majority.

Beautiful song, I love it when the singer almost whispers 'can't you come back', incredible.

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Schlechter Penguin
11-04-2007

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Oh, wow, I love this song.

I know you've heard this idea so many times, but this is how I see this song...

"Used to be the one of the rotten ones
And I liked you for that"
'You' could either refer to a friend of the narrator, or the narrator's self. As one of the "rotten ones", she was a real person, and the narrator liked it this way because she (or her friend) wasn't fake.

But in these lines:
"Now you're all gone, got your make-up on
And you're not coming back

Bleachin' your teeth, smiling flash
Talking trash, under my window"
The person's changed into a makeup-wearing, teeth-bleaching, trash-talking, and possibly backstabbing (I think that "under my window" could mean "behind my back") fake, and the narrator doesn't like it. If the song's not about a friend, then it could mean that the narrator knows that she's changed into someone she doesn't want to be, but she can't turn away.

"Park that car
Drop that phone
Sleep on the floor
Dream about me"
I think this means "come back to your old life, come back to me", something like that.

Except Emily Haines isn't seventeen...

But anyway, even though I'm thirteen and I can't totally relate to this song, I had a friend who turned to the "dark side" described in this wonderful song, and that just makes me appreciate this song even more.

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derkasaur
11-17-2007

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There is a mistake in the lyrics. She sings, "Talking trash under your breath" not "talking trash, under my window"

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