The Number Twelve Looks Like You – If These Bullets Could Talk

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  General Comment:whoa, instead of the part where i thought he said "HURT, by my best friend" it's
  
  i'll never be hurt again
  (i'll never be hurt again)
  
  by my best friend"

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  General Comment:ok so after years of listening to this song i find myself listening to it again a lot, i'm in the process of doing a vocal cover of it so i had to really study the lyrics and i've seriously replayed it over and over, there are some parts that are really difficult to understand, but this is what i've come up with.
  
  [START LYRICS]
  what you've accomplished... towards me was sickening (against me was)
  so i'll be sure to re... return the favor (...turn the fa-avor)
  you hurt me so horribly, i turned my back (you killed me)
  i don't ask for much, but i'll ask you this
  why would you destroy your own best friend? (friend)
  
  i'm... i'm so tired... of looking... (tired of gazing into mirrors)
  of looking into mirrors just to see the reflection cry (watching the reflection... cry)
  cry
  just plain and simple (now i am to cry)
  we wrote it as a memory
  i needed you to die (i need you to die)
  so long, [[*and I meant will you*]]
  
  as they plan on burying your lifeless body (i'm so...)
  i'll be sure to shatter the tombstone set in place (tired...)
  there's nothing more i'd rather see than you chasing bullets as you fall into a tub (of looking into mirrors...)
  then your heart grows comatose and your appendages are torn off (just to see...)
  [[*there's me with the*]] hurt more 'cause you're gone (the...)
  you're gone... YOU'RE GONE (reflection)
  
  here's a picture
  i'll place this in your lover's hands
  watch her dying in pain and disbelief
  
  friend (you're)
  you're gone (gone)
  this time
  
  you're a memory (you're... gone)
  you're a memory (you're... gone)
  you're a memory (you're... gone)
  you're... gone
  
  i feel i've done my part
  now it's time for me to stop this beating heart
  i'll never be hurt again
  
  HURT
  by my best friend
  would you hurt just for you?
  your best friend
  your best friend
  
  i feel that i've done my part
  but now it's time for me to stop (but... but now it's time)
  this beating heart
  [END LYRICS]
  
  parts highlighted with --> [[***]] <-- means i don't know if that's what they say.
  but i do know that at the end of the spoken word he says "hurt more 'cause your gone"
  he can't say harmonics or anything like that because there's not enough syllables in his words to even say something like that nor does he speech provoke that word. nor does he say "that you're gone" he says "''cause you're gone" you can obviously tell i'm right just by listening. "that" is not even spoken in that last verse of the spoken word.
  
  i think the full part is: ----- "?there's me? ... it must've hurt more 'cause you're gone" -----
  
  so those lyrics are like 98% right. except for the two parts in which i highlight with asterisks ** and brackets [[ ]].
  i'm seriously going to get ahold of the vocalist and ask them. i remember going to their shows back in '06 and '08 and this song was the best. especially LIVE... gave me chills every time. so much emotion.
  
  there hasn't been a comment on this song in a year... next to civeta dei, this is their second masterpiece.

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  General Comment:If this album is about Albert Fish, where's the murder references? Not seeing it here.

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  General Comment:This helped me through some tough times. I think that this song is about someone that was just betrayed or hurt by an old friend. I don't think that it's in a literal sense, it's just what the person feels. It's like, you killed my friendship, so I have to dead you (cut every tie).

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  General Comment:this song lyke reminds me so much of me & my old best friend.she hurt me so bad by talking to my boyfriend behind my back & didnt ever think in a million years that she would do that to me.but ya,it was my boyfriends fault too.but she just hurt me so bad & she bit her in the ass when he was being mean & lied to her.

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  General Comment:fao tntllu: you really shouldn't get so angry over people's interpretation of a song and it's lyrics which are fairly difficult to decipher.
  
  and "gun" would make a lot of sense as the title of the song is If These Bullets Could Talk. Last time I checked, bullets were known to come out of the barrel of a gun.

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  General Comment:This is probably their only good song, in my perspective.
  
  I saw them a few months back, and for the style of music they play the show wasn't to great =/

  Flag ShyBoysWinXOon November 29, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:This song is about his friend, that is a girl. He did anything for her, and he is her bestfriend. Now that he is now miserable due to him doing everything for her, he needs to kill her, even thogh they were best friends. He wants to do it painlessly, but at the same time, he wants revenge, just for being a good friend.

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  General Comment:This could be the vengance that the family of Grace Budd (or at least the vengance that they were seeking).
  you see, Albert Fish was allowed into the Budd home under the pretense that he needed someone to help him do some carpentery work (if im not mistaken).
  he was planning on molesting, killing, and eating Grace's brother, Edward.
  instead, he convinced Grace's parents to take her to his supposed grandaughters party.
  you know, on second thought, it seems that the spoken part and onward is the revenge of the family wanted to see.
  the first section could be Grace's viewpoint. childish assertions are prime in this part.
  
  then again, i have no idea. this song isn't very straight-forward at all.
  i think thats the idea.

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  General Comment:This is the only song on the album that I can't really relate to the whole "Albert Fish concept" that many people believe the whole album is about.
  
  And the talking...the first part is definitely:
  "As they plan on burying your lifeless body
  I'll be sure to shatter the tombstone set in place.
  There's nothing more I'd rather see than you chasing bullets as you fall into a tub."
  
  It's definitely "tub," not tunnel, because he says it in one syllable and there's a BUH sound at the end.
  
  After that I hear
  something something "chemicals" something something "torn up/off" something something something "cause you're gone...you're gone...you're gone."
  
  I don't hear "heart goes comatose" in there anywhere...I definitely hear "chemicals" though.
  And it's "you're gone...you're gone" at the end, not "a gun...a gun." You can clearly hear the "you're" and the "awn" part of "gone."

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