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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crashmypinkskull
07-15-2006

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I agree with basically everyone here, its all about following others to be come one with society...and that everyone is somewhat of a hypocrite. It shows how everyone is trying to be these creative individuals when really we're just like the next person. There's a movie called art school confidential that relates to this song so well its almost scary. You can find specific parts of the movie that go perfectly to the verses of the song.

Anway, I don't think the song is attacking any one specific scene, but most likely all music scenes. Take any 1 music genre and you can apply this song to it. I mean you could say that its leaning towards attacking maybe the "artsy/indie" scene because of his vocab (which I think is used to mock these types of people), but I think he's saying that every scene is like this despite what they do. That's just my take...

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buriedxmyselfxalive
07-17-2006

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THIS SONGS FIRGEN AWSOME!!! ahahaha i love it!!!

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IndeediKid
08-27-2006

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This song is simply about every pretentious asshole who think that they're better than someone else just because they don't think they are "conformists" or capitalists or solely because they try to rebel against "the man".

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Toast1288
08-29-2006

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This may not be exactly the group Max is speaking of, but this song always reminds me of making fun of emo, scene kids, etc. I also think the second half of the song (I wanna taste the breeze of every great city, ..my car and my guitar..) is about him and the band spreading their ideas around through music. That's my take on it.

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funstuff
08-31-2006

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does it really matter if the song has a meaning to it? no, it sounds amazing and the music is great, fun lyrics if you just listen to it without having to OVERANALIZE EVERYTHING. jesus. get over it. but yeah, the scene hype, kids who try to be different cause its 'cool'...whatever, if they wanna be like that, let 'em. screw them.
tihs song is awesome though
you know a lot of 'scenesters' listened or still do listen to say anything, i just find it ironic...seeing as they make fun of them.

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dangellie
09-19-2006

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I can't help but fall in love with this line...
"And makes you a slave to the competitive capitalist dogma
You spend every moment of your waking life bitching about "

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martinixkissesxX
09-20-2006

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it's funny, because this song is about the majority of you.

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42oz
09-22-2006

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everyone's pretentious but me

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makeshift
10-06-2006

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"hey man, what's up?"

"nothing, just learned a new word. 'pretentious'."

"what does that mean?"

"not sure, but it makes me sound super smart and i think its bashing fake people."

"cool man. fuck fake people."

"yeah. fake people are soooo pretentious, i think."

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devilonmyside
10-08-2006

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This song is terrible. This max guy has to be the worst songwriter of the past few years.

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thisoldwound13
11-10-2006

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max is brilliant and this song is so honest.. it still gives me chills everytime i listen to it

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evylllint
11-19-2006

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The simple brilliance of this song is that every scene is being torn apart mercilessly and then the writer admits to his own faults just as vengefully.

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SuperDuperSpecialMe
11-20-2006

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Guys, notice the way they sing this song...sort of in the style of RENT. That's how I heard it. And how people need to stop trying so hard to be different, just by changing what they know and what they wear, etc. It's not like they're posers, they just try too hard to set a void between themselves and others.
Just listen to "La Vie Boheme," and that's a very similar sound, in a way. I hate the people that imitate that musical. God hated it.
Oh, the car and the guitar: one of the characters sold his guitar to buy a car to go to Santa Fe.

Let's see....but, I do love this song, how it points things out quite bluntly. I love it. I love how emphasized the vocals are in Say Anything's stuff, and the music itself is good as well. Just...yeah.
RENT is all I've got, fused with "Popular."
Enjoy, kids.

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Propagandhicious
11-23-2006

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"Say Anything" -- Are they really saying anything? This song proves that liars, thieves, and derelicts are keyed to a profundity of ape-like species known as Emo. Emo is a state of the art contrast between life, love, the pursuit of happiness oranges tadpoles and chandeliers. Eating carrots, one might conclude, is a postulate of trepidation upon a zephyr and tumultuously signals the end to our feces-laden butterknives.

Say Anything..are they really saying anything? You be the judge.



Judge.

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andmywhetstone
11-23-2006

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^ You are such an idiot.

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dagrim
12-01-2006

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Awesome song. A manifesto against our generation's bullshit excuse of a "counter culture." And lol, half these words are on my vocab test.

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afiresavesday
12-04-2006

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i think the meaning is obvious...but some people think that he's referring to emo kids..which he's not...he's talking about the typical new york fashioned hipsters...and how they like to believe they are not following any type of stereotypes like the rest of the world..while as he points out..they're as bad as the rest of us...i believe the general point is that we shouldn't criticize people because of who they are..just be yourself

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Sarawr___x
12-10-2006

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this song reminds me of so many people i know.
very well written song.

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zachplaysguitar5
12-17-2006

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i think max uses the vocab to mock the scene's failed attempts to sound intelligent, using rediculous words jsut too seem like hes trying so hard, jsut as they do.

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SY5TEM
01-04-2007

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I agree with you^. by the way this song kicks asssssss!!

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geeza182
01-28-2007

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okay heres the a friend of mine interviewed max at a festival in london last year. max did have mental issues and perhaps he still does. he gets depressed and worried very easily. when recording the album he thought all his friends and family were out to eat him......he had problems. before he goes on tour his depression is the worst. oh and this song is about all the scenes thinking they are better than anyone else.

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Raynstorm
02-12-2007

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The song is very good, though his description of the people he so adamently hates is said with too much, well, hatred. He desribes certain aspects of me and my personality almost exactly. Case in point: thrift store Gestapo. I buy many of my clothes from thrift stores, though not for the pretentious reasons he says; it's just simply cheaper. I sit with my friends and discuss the issues I feel are important, even though I know it won't change anything. Just these examples say to me that he's just as pretentious as the people he is against. Not to say the song isn't powerful (nor is it wrong), but the generalities he makes are what makes people so ignorant that they become what he hates.

Also, I'm not sure if this correlates but the album booklet says these songs were originally part of a "rock opera" or some such nonsense, involving a man who got a supernatural power to make his life become a rock opera, which in turn makes him and his band become "Christ-like" in the eyes of America. I feel like this, being the final song on the CD, is the play's main character screaming his fears out at the people who hold him up so high. Maybe it's the main characters' (who, incidentally is named after the lead singer, is self-proclaimed clinically insane) final break into insanity. I'm not sure, but I know his word is not final on these seemingly "pseudo-bohemian" people.

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sheslikeohsoemo
02-12-2007

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I hate saying it that way, but Max did go crazy. He's bipolar and did get admitted to a mental hospital, by himself of by someone else, I don't really remember. I'll have to dig up that article. And if Max admits to going to a mental hospital, then I'd say it's a good indication that he's telling the truth. AP does lie, or stretch the truth sometimes, but they can't fabricate quotes and that story was pretty much Max talking.

As for the song, I think it's pretty neat. There's a quote by Green Day (kind of ironic considering how people see them as such posers now) that said something along the lines of "This kid came up to me once and asked 'What's punk?' So I kicked over a trash can and said 'That's punk.' So he kicked over another trash can and asked 'That's punk?' And I said 'No, that's conformist.'"

There is no such thing as a truly individual style. We are all fabricated clones of other fabricated clones of other fabricated clones and the sooner you realize that your way is not the only way, the better we'll all be. When you can admit to being just as self-absorbed, arrogant and fake as everyone else around you, then you're a punk. When you realize that there is no such thing as being a punk, that's when you're a punk.

This song is not about the emo kids. It's about us. It's about each of us that came on here and told everyone how everyone else is so fake and wrong. It's about me, who still in the back of my head realizes that I'm no better than anyone he's singing about in that song. It's about him, it's about you, and it's about everyone.

You're no better than anyone else out there.

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sheslikeohsoemo
02-12-2007

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Oh and the green day quote? It says 'No, that's trendy.' Not conformist. My bad.

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musicmanmaster
02-16-2007

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My favorite lines are "When you walk by a group of quote-unquote "normal people"..." and "I worry about how this album will sell because I believe it will determine the amount of SEX...I will have in the future."

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