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Go back to those gold soundz
And keep my advent to your self
Because it's nothing I don't like
Is it a crisis or a boring change?
When it's central, so essential,
It has a nice ring when you laugh
At the low life opinions
And they're coming to the chorus now
I keep your address to myself
'Cause we need secrets
We need secrets crets crets crets crets crets
Back right now
Because I never want to make you feel
That you're social
Never ignorant soul
Believe in what you want to do
And do you think that is a major flaw
When they rise up in the falling rain
And if you stay around
With your knuckles ground down
The trial's over, weapon's found
Keep my address to myself because it's secret
'Cause it's secret cret cret cret
Cret cret cret cret cret
Cret cret cret cret cret
Back right now
So drunk in the August sun
And you're the kind of girl I like
Because you're empty and I'm empty
And you can never quarantine the past
Did you remember in December
That I won't eat you when I'm gone
And if I go there, I won't stay there
Because I'm sitting here too long
I've been sitting here too long
And I've been wasted
Advocating that
Word for the last word
Last words come up
All you've got to waste
And keep my advent to your self
Because it's nothing I don't like
Is it a crisis or a boring change?
When it's central, so essential,
It has a nice ring when you laugh
At the low life opinions
And they're coming to the chorus now
I keep your address to myself
'Cause we need secrets
We need secrets crets crets crets crets crets
Back right now
Because I never want to make you feel
That you're social
Never ignorant soul
Believe in what you want to do
And do you think that is a major flaw
When they rise up in the falling rain
And if you stay around
With your knuckles ground down
The trial's over, weapon's found
Keep my address to myself because it's secret
'Cause it's secret cret cret cret
Cret cret cret cret cret
Cret cret cret cret cret
Back right now
So drunk in the August sun
And you're the kind of girl I like
Because you're empty and I'm empty
And you can never quarantine the past
Did you remember in December
That I won't eat you when I'm gone
And if I go there, I won't stay there
Because I'm sitting here too long
I've been sitting here too long
And I've been wasted
Advocating that
Word for the last word
Last words come up
All you've got to waste
Lyrics submitted by wheaties409
Track duration: 02:40
"Gold Soundz" as written by Stephen Malkmus
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing
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And you can never quarantine the past"
This is my favourite line and to me it isn't about lacking experience to fill you, to me it is more of a nod to nihilism, we're empty meaning we mean nothing, we have never meant anything to anyone and never will. They love each other regardless of the past and the fact they both realise that they aren't there for any reason.
"Keep my advent to yourself/because it's nothing I don't like"
Vague statement of indecision - so what is it you DO like? The narrator is questioning whether to embrace a change that has come into his life. "Is it a crisis or a boring change?" He seems to not want to decide.
"Believe in what you want to do/And do you think that it's a major flaw/when they rise up in the falling rain?"
In the face of the cynicism of the person he's addressing, he asks is it so awful to try to overcome stasis (rise up)?
"And if you stay around/with your knuckles ground down/the trial's over, the weapon's found"
If you stay to what you know and what's comfortable and don't renew your life and situation, you have no one to blame but yourself. Fait accompli, you are to blame.
This song seems mostly to be an internal dialogue for the narrator, but we can't ignore that it's intermittently staged as a man talking to a woman with whom he had a relationship that is now either dying or long dead.
"I've been sitting here too long."
The relationship is dead; stasis must be overcome. Either a) because the childish cynicism that made for "gold soundz" in the "August sun" is no longer sustainable or b) because the old love has devolved into the kind of relationship where many discussions are about getting the "last word" in.
"Because you're empty and I'm empty
And you can never quarantine the past"
I often find myself in this situation. Being empty to another person doesn't imply that one is emotionally incapable. I take it that this person is an open book with blank pages, like how anyone new is to another. And to "quarantine the past" is to hold judgement against any person for the negative decisions made in his or her history.
I've always liked to travel out of my small town to meet people that have never known me for who I was. Then they could not base me off of past selves, only who I am in this moment.
At the lowlife opinions"
I just looked at that line in a bit of a different light. I started imagining the song from the point of view of a secret relationship that these two people have as a shared memory. So I don't think that line necessarily means that she's snobby or full of herself. Rather, I think it means that she, or they, don't really care about anyone's "lowlife" opinions on their relationship, and he likes that. It'd explain why "it has a nice ring" when she laughs rather than a not-so-nice one.
Well, it's tied with "Live Forever" by Oasis, "A Perfect Sonnet" by Bright Eyes, "In My Life" by The Beatles, and "Philosophy" by Ben Folds Five.
Anyway, I believe the song to be about normal people getting older, or going through their mid-life cris(es).
"Is it a crisis or a boring change?"
To me, the entire first two verses and choruses are like two people trying to make their normal, average lives seem special, or different ("Keep my address to myself because it's secret"), as they get older. The final verse, one of my favorites in any song, just talks about normal empty people and the real emotions that are going on to connect them. Married couples, people that are longing. I don't think SM literally means "That I won't EAT you when I'm gone", I believe he's speaking figuratively, as with most other Pavement songs. I honestly thought it said "Need" as well. In the end, I think it's just a tune about a normal, married couple getting older and going through all the emotions that come with conforming. Think about it - they're no longer young, they have a house, kids, job, their dreams died, they're bored all the time ("And if I go there, I won't stay there, because I'm sitting here too long") and now at the age where they waste so much time taking everything so seriously ("And I've been wasted, advocating that word for the last word, last words come up all you've got to waste").
And yet, the music and lyrics still make it seem so spectacular, so happy. Go back to those Gold Sounds - your youth, your freedom. That's what makes this song so god damn incredible to me.
"so drunk in the august sun and your the kind of girl i like"
When he shows up again in December, it is dramatic for her - but for him it's a boring change, because there's nothing he doesn't like about it; regardless it is essential to both of them to recapture something from their summer affair. This may be mostly horniness and convenience on his part, but there seems to be enough of a simpatico between them in their mutual misanthropic elitism that it makes him miss her. All tempered of course by the fact that this is somehow elicit - it has to remain a secret for both of them, and for whatever that reason is, cannot ever be a legitimate relationship.
The singer is somewhere for the summer, maybe a beach town, or some other seasonal-type place. He's wandering through, on vacation, or whatever... and he's gotten together for with a girl there.
She's alright ("It has a nice ring when you laugh / At the low life opinions" and "you're the kind of girl I like"), but there isn't all that much to the relationship, but that is what he's looking for ("Because you're empty and I'm empty"). He's not living his real life right now, he's "fake" and wasting his time (as he says in the last verse) in this place (or, just generally wasting his life).
He needs to go and live his life, he's stayed in that place too long. She likely doesn't want him to leave...
"
Believe in what you wanna do
And do you think that is a major flaw
When they rise up in the falling rain
And if you stay around with your knuckles ground down
The trial's over, weapon's found
"
If he doesn't go live his life, he's lost.
Anyway, I'm interpreting this song very much from my own perspective... I feel like there is something else happening in this song, there's a lot of past-tense stuff in there that suggests something other than what I said is going on... (or he may be even going back to her? Advent?).
I also feel like I could have explained what I mean better, but, it's difficult to do that for songs sometimes.
Also: I don't know if it's 'eat' or 'need', but if it is 'eat' then the only way it makes any sense is if it is "cunnilingus" :P.