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Please understand
This isn't just goodbye
This is "I can't stand you"
This is where the road crashed into the ocean
It rises all around me
And now we're barely breathing
A thousand faces will choose to ignore
Curse my enemies for ever
Let's slit our wrists and burn down something beautiful
This desperation leaves me overjoyed
With fading lights that lead us past the lives that we destroyed
I listen to you cry
I cry for less attention
But both my hands are tied
And I'm pushed into the deep end
I listen to you talk, but talk is cheap
My mouth is filled with blood from trying not to speak
So search for an excuse, and someone to believe you
And for interesting moves I'm empty with the need to
Curse my enemies for ever
Let's slit our wrists and burn down something beautiful
This desperation leaves me overjoyed
With fading lights that lead us past the lives that we destroyed
Curse my enemies for ever
Let's slit our wrists and burn down something beautiful
This desperation is leaving me overjoyed
With fading lights that lead us past the lives that we destroyed
Please understand
Lay rotting where I fall
I'm dead from bad intentions
Suffocated and embalmed
And now all our dreams are cashed in
You swore you wouldn't lose then lost your brain
You make a sound that feels like pain
So please understand
This isn't just goodbye
This is "I can't stand you"
This isn't just goodbye
This is "I can't stand you"
This is where the road crashed into the ocean
It rises all around me
And now we're barely breathing
A thousand faces will choose to ignore
Curse my enemies for ever
Let's slit our wrists and burn down something beautiful
This desperation leaves me overjoyed
With fading lights that lead us past the lives that we destroyed
I listen to you cry
I cry for less attention
But both my hands are tied
And I'm pushed into the deep end
I listen to you talk, but talk is cheap
My mouth is filled with blood from trying not to speak
So search for an excuse, and someone to believe you
And for interesting moves I'm empty with the need to
Curse my enemies for ever
Let's slit our wrists and burn down something beautiful
This desperation leaves me overjoyed
With fading lights that lead us past the lives that we destroyed
Curse my enemies for ever
Let's slit our wrists and burn down something beautiful
This desperation is leaving me overjoyed
With fading lights that lead us past the lives that we destroyed
Please understand
Lay rotting where I fall
I'm dead from bad intentions
Suffocated and embalmed
And now all our dreams are cashed in
You swore you wouldn't lose then lost your brain
You make a sound that feels like pain
So please understand
This isn't just goodbye
This is "I can't stand you"
Lyrics submitted by Rochila_182
Track duration: 03:32
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"Please understand, this isn't just goodbye. This is I can't stand you."
Mark never wants to see Tom again.
"This is where the road crashed into the ocean
It rises all around me
And now we're barely breathing"
The road blink was going down could have been great, but now it's over and Mark is overwhelmed with thoughts of how much greater blink could have been if they had just stayed together. And now they have their own projects, but none of it will ever be as incredible as blink.
"A thousand faces [we'll?] choose to ignore"
I'm pretty sure it's "we'll"........This line is my favorite. Mark is saying that him and Tom are ignoring all the die-hard blink fans by breaking up, and it's just wrong.
"Curse my enemies forever"
He won't ever forgive Tom.
"Let's slit our wrists and burn down something beautiful"
It's like they're slitting their wrists, because they're only causing unnecessary pain by splitting up. And they've destroyed something amazing by splitting up, too.
"This desperation leaves me overjoyed
With fading lights that lead us past the lives that we destroyed"
He's desperate to create something as great as blink, but the new side projects are just "fading lights" compared to their lives when blink was together.
"I listen to you cry
I cry for less attention"
He thinks Tom's new music is too emotional, and not like the old Tom. And he's sick of everyone making a big deal about the blink breakup.
"But both my hands are tied
And I'm pushed into the deep end"
He feels like it's expected of him to create something on the same level as blink, or maybe something better than AvA....
"I listen to you talk, but talk is cheap"
He's pissed off about how Tom was being so cocky over AvA. Kind of like he's saying "Oh really, AvA is going to be that great? Prove it."
"My mouth is filled with blood from trying not to speak"
Mark wants all the bullshit with him an Tom to stop, and he just wants to apologize, but he knows he shouldn't because Tom is just being an asshole.
"So search for an excuse, and someone to believe you"
He's talking about how Tom is blaming Mark and making up excuses for being a dick, and trying to make everyone believe him & be on his side.
"And for interesting moves I'm empty with the need to
Curse my enemies forever".....
I'm not totally sure what this means, but maybe he's saying that he doesn't know what else to do but hate Tom for everything he's done.
"Lay rotting where I fall
I'm dead from bad intentions
Suffocated and embalmed"
Not sure exactly what this means either, but maybe he's just saying how terrible he feels about the blink breakup, and how he wished it hadn't gone down like that, or at all.
"And now all our dreams are cashed in"
They were fulfilling their dreams by being in blink, and now that's all over.
"You swore you wouldn't lose then lost your brain"
He thought that Tom wouldn't ever become what he did, but there he was.
"You make a sound that feels like pain"
Maybe it means Tom's words are hurting him, or maybe it's just s stab at how much Mark hates AvA. xD
....But that's just what it means to me. :P Hey, maybe it's not about Tom at all. It just really, really, really seems like it is.
Maybe they made the title "No, It Isn't" as an answer to the question "Is this about Tom?" and it's just a sarcastic answer, or Mark denying it even though it really is.
"Please understand this isn't just goodbye, this is "I can't stand you""
--> Tom didn't say he was quitting the band to Mark and Travis' face. He had the manager do it. Mark feels like this shows Tom wasn't just quitting or saying goodbye, he was saying he hated them by the cold, emotionless way he left.
"This is where the road crashed into the ocean. It rises all around me and now we're barely breathing. A thousand faces will choose to ignore"
--> Their tour suddenly stopped and the future they had as a band crashed. The news of Tom leaving shocked Mark and Tom. The thousand faces they are ignoring are the fans that they will be disappointing.
"Curse my enemies forever. Let's slit our wrists and burn down something beautiful"
--> Mark is saying that Tom is destroying something beautiful, Blink-182.
"This desperation leaves me overjoyed with fading lights that lead us past the lives that we destroyed"
--> Another line saying that Tom is destroying themselves and the band.
The rest of the song keeps on talking about the breakup but I don't feel like writing all of it down. I think the point is made though.
With Blink splitting it just means that everyone had more chances to explore a different style of writing and playing. This is just one of the things Mark experimented with.
I think that this song may not intentionally be about Tom.
They could've written it and their feelings just came out through the music, but I definitely do think there is some reference to Tom in the song.
BUT..
I wish there wasn't ..
it doesn't matter though, because
BLINK 182 IS BACK!
and it's amazing .. and I'm so pumped.
this song is great, and it shows that tom possibly was the bad one in this relationship, even though i hate to say so. while tom was telling the media the split was marks fault, and showing off his new band, mark didnt say a word, because he IS a good friend, unlike tom.
"I listen to you cry
I cry for less attention
But both my hands are tied
And I'm pushed into the deep end
I listen to you talk, but talk is cheap
My mouth is filled with blood from trying not to speak
So search for an excuse, and someone to believe you
And for interesting moves I'm empty with the need to"
i think this part says quite a bit.