This song is called,
"It's a metaphor, fool."

Sixteen names on my list
but none of them could ever get me hot like this.
(YEAH!!!)
Got your scars on my wrist,
you're safe inside my fist.

(Now let the fun begin! Sing!)

All you are to me is dead skin,
flaking off my hands onto the pavement.
All you are to me is dead skin,
breakin' up my band won't bring you payment.

Woah! (Love like no other)
Woah! (We told your mother)
Woah! (Love like no other)
Woah! (We told your mother)

So here's the plan,
you're giving in to every sick demand.
Buying the band our own apartment.
Here is your past:
flashing forward out to whip your ass,
into the form adorn when you were born.

Woah! (Love like no other)
Woah! (We told your mother)
Woah! (Love like no other)
Woah! (We told your mother, baby boy)

All you are to me is dead,
All you are to me is dead,
All you are to me is dead skin.

(Come on!)

All you are to me is dead,
Sixteen bullets split your head,
All you are to me is dead skin.

(Go! Go! Go!)

All you are to me is dead,
All you are to me is dead,
All you are to me is dead skin.

All you are to me is dead,
Sixteen bullets split your head,
All you are to me is dead skin.



Lyrics submitted by loserface68

Track duration: 02:52


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    General Comment:zeoone i believe you got it right.
    It's just a song to mess with people. its just made up of so many individual things that can all be taken different ways, but really it isn't about too much. seems like something max would do..
    Flag mechatanneron October 22, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I think this song has no meaning whatsoever. it, as the title suggests, is just a string of metaphors.
    Flag zeoone544on March 26, 2010   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:i love max so much <3
    Flag JulieBemisxon February 21, 2010   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:going along the lines of what maddyunderstood said about the title misleading us while the lyrics are actually incredibly literal, i would have to agree with cigarette--
    this song is about his penis...jerking off.

    "none of them could get me hot like this"- none of the girls he's had sex with can satisfy him as much as he can.
    "you're safe inside my fist"- literally in his fist.
    "scars on my wrist"- either actual marks on his wrist from masturbating...or he's referring to some girl who hurt him that he doesn't need because he can please himself.
    "all you are to me is dead skin flaking off onto the pavement."- dead skin is falling off because of the constant friction and he's saying that he would treat the girl like nothing more than useless remains of a night of pleasure.

    it's kind of gross, but that's just what i got from it.
    Flag puddingugavemeon July 04, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:No "cigarette", it's about his BIG ASS PENIS.
    Flag fucknuton April 19, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I forgot to include the part about "got your scars on my wrist, you're safe inside my fist." I think this part is using slitting wrists as a metaphor (fool) for depression. Since this is the girl that made him depressed in the first place, he's saying "I have your scars on my wrist" like the scars on his wrist are the depression she brought to him. Though it could also mean literally cutting his wrists, but since the song is supposed to be consecutive metaphors I think there's a deeper meaning.
    Flag Amselon March 01, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:my interpretations:

    He's been with 16 girls before at the time writing this song. AKA 16 exes. I wouldn't say 16 girls he's slept with. I'd say this girl is the one that's often referred to in Say Anything's early songs, which is said to have sparked the creation of the band. She's the only one who can "get me hot like this" meaning angry, not turned on. Now he's saying "all you are to me is dead skin" saying he's over her now, yet she's begging for him back. So he tells her to give in to every sick demand he makes, as if for some sort of revenge. But all she is to him is dead skin.
    Flag Amselon March 01, 2009   Link
  • -1
    General Comment:It's about his penis.
    Flag cigaretteon February 14, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:whats special about 16????

    its my favorite number! duh!
    Flag mysteryxsk8ron October 13, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:oh c'mon, guys, ITS A METAPHOR, FOOL.

    if Max names a song something like this, giving it the image that its supposed to be deep, its probably not. we, Say Anything fans, should know to read into the songs that appear to not have any other meaning at all.
    So, with that said,
    I think that this song is about a hard-ass break up where the chick just couldnt let go of him. she goes through the hassle of buying his band their own apartment, then she takes to threatening him, which, like most would probably agree, drove him nuts (no, not crazy-house nuts). from there he just kept on relating her to dead skin because all she is [is] itchy and bothersome.
    Flag MaddyUnderstoodon October 10, 2008   Link

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