We Are Scientists – The Great Escape

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  General Comment:I dunno, but especially considering the video, I think this song's about somebody dealing with multiple personality disorder and the problems it causes, and him trying to break free from it...?

  Flag phoenix01on September 19, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:this song is about drugs and how they mess you up.
  and--I got a great idea
  I'm gonna wait right here
  I got a great idea
  I'm gonna wait right here
  While everything is adding up, up, up
  Everything is adding up, up, up----is about just sitting there and letting your drug problem get worse
  
  I don't understand
  Said I don't understand
  Said please repeat whatever you just said
  Cause nothin's makin' sense
  Well, how'm I doin'? =theyr one drugs
  
  They're breakin' both my hands
  They're breakin' both my hands
  They're tellin' me to take it like a man
  Take it like a man
  I can't/ Well fuck that-------is about how the problem is killing them on the inside
  
  and everything is happing is like theyr tripp'n out on drugs
  
  
  
  
  

  Flag rulesDONTstopMEon May 29, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:This song is about suicide, the video pretty much says it all. He is trying to escape from his problems so topping himself is the only way out. It's sad but highly relatable.

  Flag paperprincesson April 09, 2010   Link

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  My Interpretation:Great song, I love it just to play in the background, even if the lyrics do feel a little repetitive.
  
  To me, however, it just rings as a song about learned helplessness. Some poor guy's getting in over his head in something, most likely just that he let a lot of things pile up, ('Everything is adding up, up up'), so it's just easier to let it keep piling up. (I'm gonna wait right here) Half of it is just that he doesn't know how to solve it all.
  
  I get the feeling that 'breaking both my hands' isn't supposed to be taken literally. It could simply be referring to a crippling feeling, rather than anything physical. Plus, the song never specified people. Could be the mess piling up that's figuratively breaking his hands, in other words, stress.
  
  The 'great escape', as it's called, is therefore just that he's not making any attempt to solve the situation.

  Flag Talbaton February 14, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:Those other two guys seem like his thoughts, and both are different almost contradicting in personality. He almost seemed like he didn't know what part of himself he believed in, how he should have acted, so he got away from his thoughts and tried to rediscover himself.
  
  On a heavier note I like parmesan cheese.

  Flag jukkeron September 05, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:favourite song from these guys, it's so good. I think it's got something to do with someone that has a problem with their personality maybe, split personality or something
  
  something about them is holding them back and they want to get away from it and change it
  
  anyway that's how I like to look at it, I feel like I can relate to it, = all the more I love this song

  Flag jeremiahwasaon May 10, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:I don't think the lyrics are actually about this, but they can be twisted to fit my current situation: I'm "making my escape" to university next year, "tell myself that everything's in shape" - I'll get the right grades to get in, but there are feelings of self-doubt. The chorus signifies teenage indecision while you're trying to sort out your life ["everything is adding up up up"]. The second verse could be about the huge amounts of stress ladled on me by my school...
  
  As I said, that's almost certainly not the intended meaning, but that's what it means to me at the moment.
  
  On another note... Keith is the most gorgeous man in the world, and WAS are the best live band I've ever seen. They're fantastic.

  Flag starkravingleftyon May 06, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:the video for this is brilliant

  Flag matchbox1251on August 01, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:how ironic. i bought their album at the music festival called the great escape just a couple of days ago.

  Flag flyingsnailson April 09, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:Love it.

  Flag Lagon April 03, 2007   Link

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