Lyrics for Tribulations as interpreted by spoonful

Tribulations Lyrics
everybody makes mistakes
but i feel alright when i come undone
you are not making me wait
but it seems alright as long as something's happening
i try to make you late
but you fighting me off like a fire does
you try making me wait
but it feels alright as long as something's happening

get your payments from the nation
for your trials and tribulations

you try to make me wait
you come around when it's come undone
everybody makes you late
and it's never you because you're always thinking
i try making you wait
and give you me some like you give it good
everybody makes mistakes
but it seems it's mine that always keep on stinging

get your payments from the nation
for your trials and tribulations
x2

you try making me wait
but you come undone when you come undone
everybody makes mistakes
but it's always mine that seem to keep on sticking

get your payments from the nation
for your trials and tribulations
x5

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MidnightShow81
03-26-2005

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I dont care what this song means...but it is incredible.

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optek00
12-08-2005

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exactly, it is really hard to analyze what it means but i honestly listened to this song about 600 times in the past 9 months. i think it is somethign about a relationship and playing games.

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emotionaltree
03-19-2006

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the only line i care about is "but it feels alright as long as somethings happenin" because its so goddamned true.

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emmanuell
04-23-2006

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i'm so in love with this song.




(you're all right, it's really fucking hard to analyze), but as optek said, i think it's about manipulation in a relationship -- fucking with each other. maybe the whole relationship has already gone to shit, and the people in it just can't let go of evertyhing that might've been good before, which brings an element of bitterness.

or maybe i'm just an idiot. -laughs- whatever.

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elfrijol
06-28-2006

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sounds like someone who can't help themself
and is on welfare

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rixis
08-15-2006

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"i try to make you late
but you fighting me off like a fire does"
He wants to make her pregnant!

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foo55
09-24-2006

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this song makes perfect sense to me now or atleast its taken a new meaning

i always thought it was about sex because of the 'i try to make you late' lyric, but i never listened to it all too clearly.

"everybody makes mistakes
but i feel alright when i come undone
you are not making me wait
but it seems alright as long as something's happening"

he made a mistake to piss off this girl and while trying to reconvene the relationship shes being difficult with it but he doesnt care since shes giving him a 2nd chance.

"get your payments from the nation
for your trials and tribulations"

i think what this means is shes a fucking attention whore and wants/has everyone feeling sorry for her.

i connect too well with this song when i take this meaning

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Ohm
09-29-2006

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pregnancy? 'get your payments from the nation' benefits? 'for your "trials" and "tribulations" ' mocking?

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_ellie
10-30-2006

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ditto, ohm. Mocking a nanny state. And a pregnancy scare?

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StopDanceGo
01-19-2007

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It's about a relationship between the singer and the subject. The subject has perfection issues and can not accept their failures(everybody makes you late, it's never you.)

That perfection issue also concerns relationships where they fight to hold onto everybody while not forming a relationship[a chance for failure] by playing hot/cold on people(pay attention to the wait/late references and how they switch around which eventually lead to...)

When others get sick of it, all hell breaks loose in the subject(but you come undone when you come undone) and to cope the subject points out all of the problems in those around them. (only my mistakes sting)

No one is safe from the behavior is as if the whole nation owes them for what they've gone through which have shaped this horrible personality... their trials and tribulations.

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captainfantasy
05-31-2009

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Failed marriage? Payments from the nation? alamoney(sp?) checks. the subject gets paid for the trials it was put through by the singer

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