All these people drinking lover's spit
They sit around and clean their face with it
And they listen to teeth to learn how to quit
Tied to a night they never met

You know it's time
That we grow old and do some shit
I like it all that way

All these people drinking lover's spit
Swallowing words while giving head
They listen to teeth to learn how to quit
Better take some hand and get used to it

You know it's time
That we grow old and do some shit
I like it all that way



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    General Comment:it's about how meaningless one night stands can be, and how people need to stop associating sex with how porn makes sex out to be. stop fucking random people just to get yourself off and start fucking people you actually would spend some time with outside of just fucking. it's about growing up romantically
    Flagged carnagedmeaton October 31, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:n439

    i think you're kind of a sad person. the song is about love. who cares whether the love being referenced is gay/straight/bi whatever?

    i always thought this song was about just complete closeness, two halves being almost one person--something about the line 'drinking lover's spit' makes me think of not caring about anything but being with that person. i don't know.
    Flag gandydanceron June 09, 2011   Link
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    My Interpretation:I think people are taking the giving head part way to literal. I think It's part of a bigger picture. When I first heard this song I thought he was singing about how as a society, we have all become gluttonous. That people aren't establishing genuine and sincere relationships with people anymore and they get involved with people based on false ideals of love. Where love has become of something based on sex and mere pleasure instead of getting to know someone "swallowing words while giving head" is an example when you're getting to know someone but not really because you're too busy focusing on the physical attraction instead of really getting to know the person and who they are. As if he's tired of seeing meaningless relationships where people end up destroying themselves in the end. It's like from the books The Perks of Being a Wallflower where it says "I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn’t try to sleep with people even if they could have. I need to know that these people exist."
    Flag susiedarlingon May 16, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:I struggle to see how this song is 'about' blow jobs. Blow jobs are just an element surely. Lover's spit is about many things, but specifically blowjobs? No, Where has that come from ?

    In my opinion 'spit' is being used to take purity away from love and all the things assoicated with it, words, promises, lies,that's all. and by 'cleaning their faces' with it. it's making them less pure/clean and more muddy/dirty. This isn't a literal action.

    Sure there's a line about giving head, but that just represents the unfulfilled and cheap act of sexual gratification in a casual and meaningless relationship. Which is what the song is about in general.

    Anyone out there that thinks this song is just about blowjobs is an idiot.
    Flag IAmJustDanon April 02, 2011   Link
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    My Interpretation:I think lover's spit is ejaculate, and the song is about casual sex, but the singer wants to form a stable relationship as he is now older.

    'They sit around and clean their face with it' - Possibly refering to oral sex.

    'Tied to a night they never met' - Attached to people they cannot remember.

    'Better take some hand and get used to it' - Find a partner and accept the terms of the relationship.

    That is my interpretation of the song.
    Flag LessThanGeckoon February 23, 2011   Link
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    Song Meaning:I'm thinking of this as kind of people saying that all they do is kiss and it's never anything real and that it's maybe time people suck it up and deal with problems they may have :)
    Flag casualerror1on November 27, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I think this song is about the world's infatuation with sex and how it consumes our minds and sometimes our actions. Drinking lovers spit, and using it to clean your face signifies how deeply we are immersed in a world of sex.
    Flag rstarkon May 31, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I think this song is about the world's infatuation with sex and how it consumes our minds and sometimes our actions. Drinking lovers spit, and using it to clean your face signifies how deeply we are immersed in a world of sex.
    Flag rstarkon May 31, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:This song introduced me to BSS a few years ago, I thought it was provocative and insightful and instantly fell in love with their music. Just recently I discovered the Beehives version with Feist and think it's one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard.
    This song is a tribute to "all those people" who go through partners one after the other basing the success of their relationships on how much sex they have, how good it is, how good he/she is at giving head etc. and putting all sorts of effort into learning how to either improve on these things or just move on. These kinds of relationships allow people to remain emotionally detached from the person they're "drinking lovers' spit" with and "swallowing words while giving head" to. They're giving the most intimate part of themselves away a little bit at a time, but it all kind of means nothing in the end. Deep down most people want something more meaningful and either don't realize it or don't know how to find it.

    This song is also a tribute to those couples who have broken through that meaningless sex barrier and have found something more profound and possibly long-lasting. This song speaks to two totally different types. "Better take some hand and get used to it" may be a comic stab at what happens when you're in a marriage; if you're a man, you're pretty much not going to get head anymore... but if that's the only thing you're really going to miss, then that's okay...
    I totally want to get down with my husband when I listen to this song.
    Flag nursejenon April 21, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:Its a song about love compromise and feeling vulnerable, and yes fellatio is the backdrop to this very complicated subject matter.

    Sex has been bastardized into the “cum shots” double D world this songwriter lives in and is unclear to what it all means. When some of these same acts happened to people we truly love - what does it mean after? Like anything that truly lives, it has good and bad in it. I think the songwriter is okay with that, and appreciates both sides equally. The songwriter understands love and compromise is not an easy thing to acquire. The songwriter understands you need to be completely open and vulnerable so you can have a genuine experience, and then maybe love.
    Flag Sazooon March 03, 2010   Link

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