Lyrics for Try to Remember, Forget as interpreted by AllStarMe

Try to Remember, Forget Lyrics
it is my birthday
it is a new year
i should be happy
that i am still here
light up a new joint
put on an old shirt
try to remember
forget how my brain works

but i could read a book
a night before this year
i knew every word
their definitions clear
but now in stealth
i check thesaurus
it's become my guilty mistress

so i heave my breath at burning wax
cause i know that spark ain't coming back

it is my birthday
i've got all my friends here
they haven't been talking as of lately
they've all found new bro's and babies
i have smoked away my pride
there is nothing but the cinders of it inside
but i believed in more than nothingness last year
and under every quiet failure it's still here
buried breathing under 18 years
of tragedy and fear
if i could crawl my way out of this grave
just think of all the time i'd save

the stereo's playing the same old songs
but we still hum along

and in no time we'll be spread
across the earth
donning business suits to show
the faceless master what we're worth
from our huggies to armani
and it all seems so rehearsed

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lilgoldie
12-07-2004

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Wow. I can't believe that I will be the first to comment on this song. It is amazing.
I think that this song is talking about growing up and growing up. Obviously whoever he is, feels as if he doesn't know his friends anymore or anything else that should be familiar. Drugs may play into this. I also think that he feels he has a set path and no matter what he does he cannot change that. He will become like those before him, a nobody in a business suit.

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amandaaaa
06-25-2005

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i agree with lilgoldie i think this is about growing up.
which is something i can relate to so much right now.

i fucking love this song.

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tjwells
03-15-2006

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i think some of it is about how all the drugs he's done has made him less smart and a less interesting person (like when he talks about reading a book a night)

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RustyJ
03-28-2006

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I think it's about weed overuse.

"i've got all my friends here
they haven't been talking as of lately
they've all found new bro's and babies
I have smoked away my pride"

His connections with his friends have all died off because he is simply wasting his time on drugs.

The whole vibe of the song is depressed and bored, Much like the aftereffects of marijuana.

It's about how he feels he's wasting his life, losing touch with things, becoming stupider (book references, and the title), and how He can't stop, because weed is what helps him escape all these anxieties.

Max is an angsty stoner, But that's why we love him.

Great song.

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wannabesurfer
05-11-2006

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I can't be sure what Max means in this song, other than that I'm fairly sure it's about more than just the effects of the weed. My interpretation is purely personal, but I believe that it could be basically the same thing that Max is saying happened to him.

If you replace any reference to weed with one to alcohol, this song represents exactly how I felt just after my nineteenth(sadly not eighteenth like Max) birthday. I felt like everything in my life just wasn't as good as it used to be. I noticed I had become less athletic, felt less attractive, and was certainly not as sharp as I had been(a problem Max seems to have too). Not only was I falling apart, but everyone I loved seemed to be changing too. It seems like these years at the end of and just after high school are a key transition period in everyone's lives and that means that things are going to start changing. If you really liked the way things were and are trying not to change at all but everything around you is changing it can leave you feeling really alone and longing for the way things used to be. With everything falling apart around me I was constantly confused about the direction of my life and drank way more than I should have, which served only to amplify my problems.
It seems like Max is saying in this song that the same thing happened to him, only with smoking instead of drinking.
Luckily, Max and I both now have our own "new babies" and are emotionally in much better places.

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StupidKid67
06-15-2006

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Oh man have I lived this...

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best_day_ever
06-23-2006

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i agree with RustyJ here. and i also think it has to do with the overall melancholy of realizing how cliche the life process is. growing up and going "from our huggies to armani / and it all seems so rehearsed" life is pretty much boring and predictable, it's his birthday, it's a new year, but that's just not enough to make him happy.

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mattz123
08-15-2006

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these lyrics kind of remind me of yellow cat, but with a more focused theme.

growing up but big deal. hes so cynical

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mary_withoutsound
05-02-2007

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"but i believed in more than nothingness last year
and under every quiet failure it's still here"

This song is so relatable... except for the weed part.
I mean I felt, and I am still feeling like this at time. I love all of their songs, but this one just hits home for me.

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lovers requiem
08-30-2007

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i adore this song. i can't relate the the weed part, but the growing up part, well i think we can all relate to that.

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AllChokedUp
05-24-2008

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"so i heave my breath at burning wax,
cause i know that spark ain't coming back."

i think he's saying you have to accept change, because nothing can ever really go back to how it used to be, so all you can do is just accept it and move on. like mattz123 said, "growing up but big deal".

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whitwarren
11-03-2009

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man I love this song. i'm listening to it right now. whatever is going on, this song always calms everything down. soooo good.

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