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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jypsielove
10-07-2008

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hmm...well i personally think that this song is about all the "scene" kids. who think its cool to dress and look the same as all there friends and if you dont look that way then you suck.. "It’s disgusting, its offensive don’t stick your nose up at me " and hes saying yeah your not better than me. so f*ck you.

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Ah Me Audrey
10-09-2008

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i've gone from wanting to be this (a couple years back) to completely savoring what he has to say. it's as fake as the "preps", but at least i'd rather be pretending to be happy than pretending to be sad. and this is definitely about emo/scenesters, and anyone who disagrees is an ashamed emo/scenester themselves.

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SwedxSimon
10-17-2008

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By pointing finger at FUCKING HIPSTERS/EMOS!!1 and ''people who perfectly fits this'', you try to stand above their pretentiousness and automatically end up being as pretentious as them, just like I'm pretentious for pointing this out and try to sound self-aware by mentioning that. If one doesn't pay attention to the details/specific indie context and see the *main* concept, this song applies to every single comment here, because it applies to the human race.

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gustavio
11-04-2008

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This song applies to Max Bemis... The first part is Max scoffing at the emo/scenester kids of the world. The second part is the realization that he's just like them.

Oh, and whoever said this song had to do with punk needs to die in light of the fact that the entire first verse is about someone who lives for things that most punks despise, such as new york underground fashion magazines, art, thrift store gestapo types, and post-modernism:)

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FAGGOTx
11-07-2008

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Best fucking song ever.
Only because it's so true.

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fannypack
01-10-2009

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I don't think this song is necessarily about scene or emo kids. It's about people pretending to be something they're not and that it's all superficial. And it's about how these same people are hypocrites ("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".) Max is criticizing people who are fake and act and dress a certain way to imress an "unseen panel of hipster judges".
Overall, I think he's saying that we're all humans and no one should have the mind set that they are superior, and he's sick of people who do.

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tylerinabuket
01-16-2009

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So big Say anything fans know that the album "is a real boy" was originally designed by bemis to be a rock opera. for whatever reason that it didnt work out though, the album still plays like a hurt love story, starting with the anger rejection songs like Blet and Yellow/red cat, with a constant reminder of lost love like the popular Alive with the glory. So as the "boy" deals with the lost love cliche, with random sex and reminisce, he begins to find himself crawling back to that girl, with a 2nd to last son " i want to know your plans, then here he ends with this pissed off song. So whats the deal? I think that the end is a kind of "fuck it im over it" type thing, with a vibe of "i'll do whatever i have to to forget this". Admit it is the ultimate get over her song, because it is bemis' way of saying "she sucked anyway". Then the eternal "when im dead ill rest comes into play...a promise that he'll forget her, tasting the breaze of every great city is better than stewing here over you.

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DursoDarkoRawr
02-23-2009

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that guy is ugly all he knws is the latest trend, what a non conformist, SARCASM, he likes wht othrs like, he wants to please them, pathetic? yeah. He cant do music and art, he' s a sheep. Its disgusting an insult to nature. What do you have to say for yourself? ANyway, its like having sex with a hobo in a way, and the hobos are sheep. POndificating. wtF? That's all they want to do, go hog the spotlight like they're smart they're not smart, their fucking slave hoes. Bitches. Nahh jk, but they is shit. ANyway theyre making life a hell DOGMA WAKING LIFE BITCHING RAWR! wht do u have to say? Idk! Wooooh. WHat can they do? nothing they're shit. THis is just the flow in my mind as i listen to the song, can u comprehend? yes no maybe so? Dnt be mad, be happy, LEARN! I KNOW! Anyway...back to the song, "normal" peopple, no such thing. SCOFF>. i have a superiority complex? NAhh brah those are the jocks those bastards. I'm not twelve. I'm not fifteen. I'm not sixteen. IM not eighteen either thts a little younger. im 25, nahh jk im like 17 . Neway, wtf? Im sorry u guys. Im so sorry. ANyway hahah friends! It will not get u far, he likes his life and his car and guitar. let me tell u this he spends hours in front of the mirror looking sexy but nahh he is messy a messy wreck! but he likes it and he wants to have sex ofc, thts why we work out, write music, buy nice things, sex! yes thts everything. WALK THE PLANK AND JUMP INTO SEX. Woah woahwoah. Its all symbolism. Everything. I love this song.

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Willhgbwillbewillfys
03-31-2009

Rated +1 
people try so hard to stand out and be a nonconformist that they just become a shallow
A-hole that is self absorbed and have a conceited attitude. "pseudo-bohemian appearance" explains that the person is a fake(psuedo) nonconformist(Bohemian) and that they are "living a lie" as said in the song. This song shows that nonconformity really dosent make you stand out, it makes you arrogant and makes you think you are all that.

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Radison
03-31-2009

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This song is basically saying

GOD JESUS DAMN, ACCEPT YOURSELF AND STOP TRYING SO HARD.



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ohtess123
04-05-2009

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oh my gosh,
how can you NOT love this song?


sooo amazing.
max is a genius

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fucknut
04-19-2009

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i did admit it. i'm gay...maybe bi (see my Baby Girl, I'm a blur comment)

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kuzo234
04-19-2009

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This song demonstrates my favorite part about Max's lyrics. My Favorite part of the song is:

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

I just love how Max writes about how he just wants to escape from all of this, get away from "the scene". He decides that the only way he'll ever escape is through death.


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nattholla
05-02-2009

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"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"


I love that section, and I'm in love with this song & Say Anything

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annebelle18
06-04-2009

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This song isn't about scenesters or scene kids....sorry youngin's, but the twenty one and over crowd just doesn't care that much. It's actually directed at the Alt. rock crowd, which is Say Anything's technical genre... It's talking about people who wear plaid and major in english and listen to Radiohead...not tweens who shop at Hot Topic and have Myspace. More the vintage-wearing, beer-swilling version of the scene-kid. Annoying all the same but just a tad more sophisticated and a lot older.

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kirbyluvr7
06-21-2009

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I always thought that at the beginning it was Max talking bout how hard he tries to fit in and his misuse of drugs. And then towards the middle he's kinda just saying that he doesn't care how people lable him and that he's happy with who he is.

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GREENASANTHONY
07-04-2009

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this song pumps me up even still today.. one of the greatest songs ever! phenomenal. amazing. secksy. hard. this song makes me wanna skull fuck emo kids dead


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Mekhit
07-08-2009

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Ok some of you have it right, some don't. This song was originally part of a rock opera that Max was writing about a boy who didn't know how to ever speak his feelings, then one day he suddenly gets the ability and just goes off spouting whatever he wanted. Like in the song "Woe" where he says "All the words in my mouth that the scene deemed unworthy of letting out, banded together to form a makeshift militia and burrowed bluntly through my tongue and my teeth." This is another part of that opera where he just basically calls everyone out, even himself. And the opera got scratched due to Max actually going crazy from drugs and the stress of writing it by himself. He once sat on the ground pouring out a bowl of soup spoonful at a time for 30 minutes. He went to rehab and since hasn't had a relapse. The song on In Defense of the Genre called "Sorry Guys. My Bad." talks about that.

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ThaneofBass
09-04-2009

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This song is about scenesters.

I personally love all the lyrics near the end.
"I'll do just fine, my car and my guitar"
"I wanna taste the breeze of every great city"
"You've come to be made of these urges unfulfilled"
"When I'm dead I'll rest"

Such strong testaments to the human spirit.


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coffintoffee
09-09-2009

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this song reminds me so much of the girl i used to be best friends with. except she was too dumb to have even a vaguely leftist doctrine of beliefs, too lazy to bother with thrift stores and too ignorant to bother with analogs.
she was an annoying fuck.

but this song rools! it's the best kind of "fuck you". because it's in song form!

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Psych0kin
09-20-2009

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wtf...? this one is gonna take a while to figure out...I do like it though

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iTzVeLoCiTy
10-08-2009

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I love the irony in this song.
All of the people who continue to down these "scenesters", are being just as pretentious as those described in this song.
AND now I'm being pretentious for accusing these supporters of the song, just because they don't understand the lyrics.

It's NEVERENDING. I wish it would just stop.
But like Bemis said, When I'm dead I'll rest. It'll all be over then.

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FixUpLookSharp--x
10-18-2009

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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

I love these lines. To me, it's just showing how the so-called 'individual' kids are exactly the same as everyone else. Although they different interests and styles to the 'popular' kids, they still all live inside the same rules as each other and follow them same trends, yet find themselves superior for being so, as they believe, different.

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