Lyrics for Admit It as interpreted by trinket

Admit It Lyrics
Despite your pseudo-bohemian appearance
That vaguely leftist doctrine of beliefs
You know nothing about art or sex
That you couldn’t read in any trendy New York underground fashion magazine
Prototypical non-conformist
You are a vacuous soldier of the thrift store Gestapo
You adhere to a set of standards and tastes
That appear to be determined by an unseen panel of hipster judges (bullshit)
Giving a thumbs up or thumbs down to incoming and outgoing trends and styles of music and art
Go analog baby, you’re so post-modern
You’re diving face forward into a antiquated path
It’s disgusting, its offensive don’t stick your nose up at me

Yeah, what do you have to say for yourself
Whoah, whoah, whoah, whoah

You spend your time sitting in circles with your friends
Pontificating to each other forever competing for that one moment of self aggrandizing glory
In which you hog the intellectual spotlight
Holding dominion over the entire shallow pointless conversation
Oh we’re not worthy when you walk by a group of quote unquote normal people
You chuckle to yourself patting yourself on the back as you scoff
With the same superiority complex
Shared by the high school jocks who made your life a living hell
And makes you a slave to the competitive capitalist dogma
You spend every moment of your waking life bitching about

Yeah, what do you have to say for yourself
Whoah, whoah, whoah, whoah
And I say yeah, what do you have to say for yourself
Whoah, whoah, whoah, whoah

Cause I’m proud of my life and the things that I have done
Proud of myself and the loner I’ve become
You’re free to whine, it will not get you far
I do just fine, my car and my guitar

Proud of my life and the things that I have done
Proud of myself and the loner I’ve become
You’re free to whine, it will not get you far
I do just fine, my car and my guitar, yeah

Well let me tell you this, I am shamelessly self-involved
I spend hours in front of the mirror, making my hair elegantly disheveled
I worry about how this album will sell
Because I believe that it will determine the amount of sex I will have in the future
I self medicate with drugs and alcohol to treat my extreme social anxiety

You are a faker (admit it)
You are a fraud (admit it)
Yeah, you’re living a lie (yeah) living a lie (yeah) you’re life is living a lie
You don’t impress me (admit it)
You don’t intimidate me (admit it)
Why don’t you bow down, get on the ground, walk this fucking plank

Yeah, what do you have to say for yourself
Whoah, whoah, whoah, whoah
And I say yeah

I’m proud of my life and the things that I have done
Proud of myself and the loner I’ve become
You’re free to whine, it will not get you far
I do just fine, my car and my guitar, guitar go!

I'm drift drift drift drifting yeah
I'm drift drift drift drifting yeah oh

And I am done with this
I wanna taste the breeze of every great city
My car and my guitar
So you come to me, made of these, urgent unfulfilled
Oh no no no no no
I have when I'm dead I'll rest
But that's away still
When I'm dead I'll rest, I'll rest

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Armada
05-16-2004

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this song is max's crazy way of talking about punk music and how every second person out there is now an emo kid. talk the talk but dont walk the walk.

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trinket
05-17-2004

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personally.. i find it more to be a satire on the los angeles / new york scenes.. not emo but moreso the pretentiousness / materialism.

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trinket
05-17-2004

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personally.. i find it more to be a satire on the los angeles / new york scenes.. not emo but moreso the pretentiousness / materialism.

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sexymonster
09-18-2004

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This song is effing fabulous. And that's all there is to it.

ps. It's kinda a take on Nada Surf's popular.

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CountMyCrows
09-19-2004

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i agree with both statements - it is amazing and kind of reminds me of "popular"....say anything has such an original sound and the lyrics are fantastic. that's all.

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ADimeADexter
09-24-2004

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The guy from say anything went crazy recording the album so u never know whats going on in most of their songs... but hey its a good'en.

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outro
10-04-2004

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unbelievable.
i never really connected "popular" and this song.. but i guess i can see why you say that.

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SolidSteak
10-08-2004

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There is one line wrong here. It's " I self medicate with drugs and alcochol to treat my extreme social anxiety problem", not "between my extremes of what I think" I don't know where they got that from.

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Destructedstar
10-11-2004

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So fucking good. I hope this makes people think twice about the way they live their lives.

You adhere to a set of standards and tastes
That appear to be determined by an unseen panel of hipster judges

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deathtoseth
10-13-2004

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okay, what the fuck. this isnt about "emo kids." max did not go crazy, and all of these songs are about something. fuck everyone on here, except, like... trinket?

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deathtoseth
10-13-2004

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okay, what the fuck. this isnt about "emo kids." max did not go crazy, and all of these songs are about something. fuck everyone on here, except, like... trinket?

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ADimeADexter
10-17-2004

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Ur cool kid... read Alt Press... And then you know I speak no lies...

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floz2323
10-19-2004

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It is not about emo kids, read the booklet for the album. It is about how the character "Max Bemis" (yes, also his real name) sees the fact that the biggest hypocrits of all are the people in bands, that strive so hard to fit a certain category, they are actually conforming themselves, and everything they fight against, they are infact becoming a pawn to.

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chadforgot
10-22-2004

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this song is not about emo kids its about a girl or anyone in general who was your friend and became a "scenester" and yes max did go to a mental hospital if u read the last alternative press mag it has an article on him saying he admitted himself into a mental hospital

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trinket
10-31-2004

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this are the original lyrics max sent me when he first wrote them.. they might have changed since being recorded and put on the album

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Merkin
11-15-2004

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umm...new found glory?
"Ur cool kid... read Alt Press... And then you know I speak no lies... "
I'm gonna have to go with deathtoseth.
Exactly what he says in the song. I guess altpress is 100% correct...yea...so you could be easily speaking lies. and NFG is good?? um...yea.
But Max Bemis is awesome. and all his songs mean something. I don't care what he's been too.

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emogreen
11-17-2004

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This makes me think (it's) about mostly the scenester.. but some lines make me think of the "Fraiser scene" .. That show with Kelsey Grammar as a pretentious loser. like the whole second verse really. Whatever I fucking love it.

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ArcaneAbreaction
12-08-2004

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whatever the true meaning and/or inspiration behind the song is, its truly a artistic masterpiece and the manifestion of everything i've ever wanted to say when i couldn't find the words to say it.
Max always has been and always will be brilliant, mental hospital patient or not.

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barely_breathing
01-03-2005

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sayanythingisgodly.soisthissong. i do read alt press..what issue was it?

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ANewFriend43
01-04-2005

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i love love love this song. it's so honest and pissed off. as for what it means, that depends on you.

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kdr519
01-16-2005

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I think that this song is just about the new 'scenes' that are out there. Kid's who try so hard to be different they are the same.

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restin256
01-17-2005

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I think this song is brilliant. It can refer to any scene where kids try to be cool and popular, "adhering to a set of standards by a panel of unseen judges". An ex girlfriend of mine recently fell into the Hot Topic trends and I laughed in her face, right before thinking of this song.

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jerichotony
03-08-2005

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Easily the best song lyric-wise that I heard in all of 2004. This song is incredible and highlights every talented bone in Max Bemis's body. Every single word is perfectly suited for what he is saying and he is so sincere with every syllable...it's amazing.

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thomas doyle
03-11-2005

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There is something vaguely ironic about making fun of scenesters. Making fun of stupid people, no matter how stupid, makes you just as guilty as they are of the crimes you accuse them. This song has some very good hooks and I'd have to say it's place at the end of the album and the nature of the album itself has to be taken into consideration while interpreting it.

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OneSecondRegrets
03-12-2005

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Describes every fucking elitist, pretentious fuck in my town.
This song is amazing. The vocabulary in it is pretty damn impressive too.

badaba love it.

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