Lyrics for An Orgy of Critics as interpreted by AllStarMe

An Orgy of Critics Lyrics
sweep the black super market
sweep it up with your teeth
put your feather in your box
(take off, take off)
send it off to me
i smell oxygen, precious
bareback on your horse
gallop off course, get off
(get off, get off)
filled with fury's force

there's a (fire) in the peach pit
a (blaze) in the snake pit
(You) erased it but we
saw you fake it
there's (blood) on the good book
(love) in the bad brook
suck out all the nerve and make it yours

you brought me to my knees
your art it brought me to my knees

you're so perfect to please us
you make all the right noise
get the business clothes off
(take off, take off)
and strip down to your voice
we will show you your future
and choke the air from your world
you can be our once, twice, thrice
four times then goodbye girl

i don't know who told you that
but it's a lie, believe me
i swear i shall not deceive thee
i don't know who sold you that
but it's a fake, remind me
my eyes see straight behind me
i've never killed nobody
i promise you're my first
you always remember your first

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ShesMyRushmore
01-11-2005

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Clearly one of the greatest songs ever written. Not to take anything away from their other amazing material, but this song just kills me every time I hear it.

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budeckster
02-03-2005

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i didn't really like this song the first time I heard it, but it kinda grew on me and now I love it like all other say anything songs. I have no idea what it means though.

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budeckster
02-11-2005

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Actually I think I may have an idea of what it means... I think it's about how critics always tend to gang up on artists and the line "you always remember your first" maybe about how you remember your first review. I doubt that's right but it's an idea.

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ieatmelons
03-28-2005

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oh fuck i love this song so much
i saw say anything once at the shelter in detroit
they were effin awesome but they didn't play this. i wish they did.
but yeah i have absolutely no clue what it means.

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mfflbtn
05-21-2005

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max bemis wrote this album to be a kind of rock musical chronicalling his point of view of the music industry and all that kind of stuff. what i take from this song is how some artists tend to change their original art forms in order to really make it but then swear that they haven't changed. and also how the music industry just uses up artists then spits them out when they're done with them

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mattz123
12-08-2005

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I think hes talking about his first critic, bot obviously not the last "you always remember your first". How critics can sometimes make you or break you. We will show you your future, choke the air from your world. Then they move on to their next "victim". He's trying to break this trend with the last verse, saying he will defeat or "kill" the critic. "Ive never killed nobody, promise your my first, you always remember your first. Great song and I could be wrong, this is just my take on it, i would like to see other opinions.

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BrokenParachutes
05-15-2006

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this song is genius. it seems like its about his struggle with record labels, and people trying to control him and his band, and where they are going.
max bemis is a god amongst men. hes my fucking idol. jeez

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BrokenParachutes
05-15-2006

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this song is genius. it seems like its about his struggle with record labels, and people trying to control him and his band, and where they are going.
max bemis is a god amongst men. hes my fucking idol. jeez

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convexconcave
08-30-2006

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The first couple of lines make me think of having to work in a hard badly-paid job, like sweeping in a supermarket to pay the bills. Maybe the singers experience before the band took off.
Then putting the feather in the box and sending it off is sending a demo to a record company. A feather cos its a small part of what helps him fly away, his music
And 'send it off to me' and the bit about smelling oxygen is the record company realising they have a chance to make money.

So yeh.. in short I think the song is about the bands struggles, like brokenparachutes said :)

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ms-blackeyeliner
09-10-2006

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I agree this is song is great....

I think its about critical/hipacritical people.

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thelaststraw
10-21-2006

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arent these lyrics kinda wrong? or maybe i got a different version or something, but heres wat i got:
sweep the black super market
sweep it up with your teeth
put your feather in a box
(take off, take off)
send it off to me
i smell oxygen, precious
bareback on your horse
gallop off course, get off
(get off, get off)
filled with fury's force

there's a (fire) in the peach pit
a (blaze) in the snake pit
(You) erased it but we
saw you fake it
there's (blood) on the good book
(love) in the bad brook
suck out all the nerve and make it yours
there's a (fire) in the peach pit
there's a (fire) in the peach pit
there's a (fire) in the peach pit
we saw you fake it

you brought me to my knees
your art it brought me to my knees
your art it brought me (brought me)
brought me (brought me)
brought me to my knees

you're so perfect to please us
you make all the right noise
get the business clothes off
(take off, take off)
and strip down to your voice
we will show you your future
and choke the air from your world
(choke choke choke)
you can be our once, twice, thrice
four times then goodbye girl

there's a (fire) in the peach pit
a (blaze) in the snake pit
(You) erased it but we
saw you fake it
There's a (crack) in the blank stare,
(black) in the raised hair.
(black) It's not fair.
there's a (fire) in the peach pit
there's a (fire) in the peach pit
there's a (fire) in the peach pit

you brought me to my knees
your art it brought me to my knees
your art it brought me (brought me)
brought me (brought me)
brought me to my knees

i don't know who told you that
who told you that?
i don't know
but it's a lie, believe me
i swear i shall not deceive thee
(yeah)
i don't know who sold you that
but it's a fake,
I don’t know who sold you that baby but it’s a fake
remind me
cos my eyes see straight behind me
i've never killed nobody
i promise you're my first
you always remember your first

ok bring me fucking down

you brought me to my knees
your art it brought me to my knees
your art it brought me (brought me)
brought me (you brought me)
you brought me to my knees

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chia like
01-03-2007

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the critics are the fans

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^Debaser
03-01-2007

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Yeah, I get the idea that he imagines killing these critics as well.

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SamuelHW
07-13-2007

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he's having a dig at bands who change their sound to 'make it' - "your so perfect to please us, you make all the right noise" - and warning people of the fakers - "i dont know who sold you that baby but it's a fake". i dont know, its one way of looking at it.

i can also see that he's singing from the point of view of a critic maybe? the verses in the song are incredibly negative, raging at the state of the industry, yet the chorus is uplifting, maybe the "your art it brought me to my knees" is a reference to genuine music, like his own. again, just an opinion

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Airwaves
09-10-2007

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I think he's struggling with reviews and other things and i think the whole CD is about not selling out. Yet they sold out when the CD came out.

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devilchild8389
10-28-2007

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I think it's about the media and industry's impression of artists. They see a business opportunity and utilize it. They use musicians to profit, and butter them up the whole time to get what they want.

Fav Say Anything song. I love the "I don't know who told you that..." part.

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vulgar
11-05-2007

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yeah this is pretty much about critics not knowing how to really judge music..
"put your feather in your box
(take off, take off)"
^ i kind of think that has something to do with advance releases artists send to critics.. max uses 'feather' as a metaphor for record to show that to a music critic that's exactly how much music is worth.

"you brought me to my knees
your art it brought me to my knees"
^ i think that has something to do with those people who seem to just ignore music.. because sometimes there is one record that they stumble upon that makes them change their minds.

also sometimes when i'm listening to this i like to think they're railing against something like pitchfork ha ha

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fucknut
04-19-2009

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"you brought me to my knees
your art it brought me to my knees"
so now he's gay now?
I ain't givin Him no bj! Bitch! i ain't yo hoe
well the truth is, i'm gay too ( see my comment on That's That)

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Alexis145
05-04-2009

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max uses the word kill to refer to sex.

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