his one's of you taking your pill
Sometimes forget and that's okay I guess
This one's of me at my sisters wedding day

All my faces
They all were wasted

You're barely breathing I know
What if it's starting to show?
And I know it won't ever change but it hurts the same

This one's of me throwing up for you
And I'm paler still, and that's the way you wanted it
This one's of you, certain of cancer

And all my faces
They all were wasted on feeling small
You're barely breathing, I know
And now it's starting to show
And I know it won't ever change, but it hurts the same

Yeah

A fever broke somewhere behind July
And remember how I weighed 135
And we collide

All my faces
They all were wasted on feeling small
You're barely breathing, I know
And now it's starting to show
And I know it won't ever change, but it hurts the same

This one's of me, losing more weight
and feeling afraid

___________________________

There are more than one version but this is the one I heard...The spaces one also exist.



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    General Comment:Oh my gosh...
    Just listening to the EP for the first time O.o
    "We collide"
    I believe Josh is talking to his past, bulimic self during the song, and when he says we collide, he means that he begins to change. He starts to become better :)
    Flag TrencherOon February 20, 2013   Link
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    My Interpretation:"This one's of you taking your pill
    Sometimes forget and that's okay I guess
    This one's of me at my sisters wedding day"

    This verse is about Josh looking at pictures of himself and reflecting. The sick self is showing him bad traits - such as forgetting to take his pills but the good self is showing happy memories like his sisters wedding day. Yet, he didn't think it was too happy because when he looks at it, all he can see is his weight.
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    "All my faces
    They all were wasted"

    This part is about how he is showing the pictures to himself. When he says 'all my faces' he meant that all of his pictures were about him wanting to feel small. He may have faked a smiled, or just looked sick in the pictures so he wasted the memories in the pictures because of his disease.
    ___________________________________
    "You're barely breathing I know
    What if it's starting to show?
    And I know it won't ever change but it hurts the same"

    This is about the past Josh telling the present self that he needs to get better because he is dying inside. Yet, the present Josh is resisting the advice and can't get better...the disease is too powerful.
    ______________________________________________

    "This one's of me throwing up for you
    And I'm paler still, and that's the way you wanted it
    This one's of you, certain of cancer"

    Sometimes in the eating disorder community, people refer to bulimia as a womans name of MIA. I think this is Josh talking to her, or even himself. He threw up because Mia wouldn't allow the thoughts to cease. She told him the more he threw up, the thinner he would be. As a consequence, he became pale because he was losing his nutrition and becoming sicker.
    I think the cancer part refers to one of two things: either Josh began to lose his voice due to the acid and he thought he developed throat cancer -or- since there is no cure for cancer, he thoguht he had a death sentence and an incurable disease.
    ___________________________________-

    "And all my faces
    They all were wasted on feeling small
    You're barely breathing, I know
    And now it's starting to show
    And I know it won't ever change, but it hurts the same"

    This refers to the photos again. In all of the pictures he looks at, all he can see is himself. He criticizes himself on his weight instead of enjoying the memory. He is afraid that others will notice too, and he can't concentrate. He's barley breathing and about to die - maybe not even literally but emotionally.
    ___________________________________-

    "A fever broke somewhere behind July
    And remember how I weighed 135
    And we collide"

    A fever breaking is when someone begins to get better. At his lowest, he realized that if he didn't get better, he was going to die. The bulimic self and his sane self began to collide into one person and he was able to fight to save himself.

    ___________________________________-

    "All my faces
    They all were wasted on feeling small
    You're barely breathing, I know
    And now it's starting to show
    And I know it won't ever change, but it hurts the same"

    He realized that everyone else can notice and he's trying to get help now.
    ___________________________________-
    "This one's of me, losing more weight
    And feeling afraid"

    Maybe he went into remission for a while but it came back with vengeance. He is afraid he is going to die.

    ___________________________________-

    I'm sorry if my interpretation doesn't make any sense but every-time I listen to this song, this is the picture that is painted to me....
    Flag LyricalSymphonyon December 17, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:When I heard this song for the first time which was sadly like ten seconds ago, I started to tear up! This song is amazing and its now one of my favorites!!!!!!
    Flag palkas99on February 28, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:I'm a recovering bulimic, so I completely love and understand the song, so Ima go all pro on you and yeah.

    This one's of you taking your pill
    Sometimes forget and that's okay I guess
    [Trying to get better, but can't]
    This one's of me at my sisters wedding day
    [I think it's that he was at his sisters wedding, and threw up afterwards or during. Everyone was so happy, and all he could think of was getting the food out of him]

    All the spaces
    They all were wasted

    You're barely breathing I know
    [You're getting sicker]
    What if it's starting to show
    [People could find out. You don't want that]
    And I know it won't ever change but it hurts the same
    [You know you won't stop, and that hurts]

    This one's of me throwing up for you
    [literally throwing up]
    And I'm paler still, but that's the way you wanted it
    [When you lose a lot of weight, you get pale]
    This one's of you
    Certain of cancer
    [It's a disease]

    In all the spaces
    They all were wasted on feeling small
    [You only care about being small]
    You're barely breathing, I know
    What now it's starting to show
    [Explained before]
    And I know it won't ever change, but it hurts the same

    A fever broke somewhere behind July
    [Sometime during a July, he got the sickest yet]
    And remember how I weighed 135
    [His lowest weight]
    and we collide...

    All the spaces
    It all got wasted on feeling small
    You're barely breathing, I know
    And now it's starting to show
    And I know it won't ever change, but it hurst the same

    This one's of me losing my weight
    I'm feeling afraid
    [I cry every time I hear this. He's loseing more weight, and being even more scared that things could end badly]

    My second favourite song behind Skin and Bones. They saved me from my bulimia.
    Flag Meghan486on February 17, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:this is definitely about bulimia and insomnia. Josh's kinda singing about/to himself. his other self. this song really got to me mainly because i know alot about eating disorders and i had to help my best friend through one- still am. i can only imagine how it felt for her, but i felt horrible everytime i helped her hide it from everyone else while i was also trying to stop it..

    all my faces, they all were wasted on feeling small
    -time wasted hiding behind a mask to hide pain.
    this ones of me throwing up for you
    -bulimia.
    and im paler still, but thats the way you wanted it
    -being pale from loss of weight or insomnia
    what if its starting to show
    -weight loss showing, badly.
    i know it wont ever change but it hurts the same
    -its VERY hard to rid of bulimia or insomnia
    and remember how i weighed 135
    -speaks for itself.
    this ones of me losing my weight
    -bulimia.
    im feeling afraid
    -again, speaks for itself.

    thats all i can 'decode' at the moment.
    Flag canadian415on January 01, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:I had a cousin who faked having cancer to cover up for her bulimia which is kind of why I guess I always saw this song in a way where it was about the same person. But I wasn't really sure, I guess it's something Josh himself needs to tell us. But the beautiful thing about it is we can perceive any song how we choose to, it's the best part of art. We look for what we see in a song when we listen to it. This song didn't really help me out like most of their other songs have, but I do love it. It's very beautifully written.
    Flag bunnyinchainson September 16, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I agree with Fallen Leaves, 'haunting' is the right word. this song was really hard for me to listen to, because you can tell how much it means. its very seriouse and beuatiful. you can hear the pain in Josh's voice. this song makes me cry! its soo ..... theres no words.
    Flag MTrenchRoxon July 04, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:This probably isn't what this song is about cause it's completley different from what other people were writing but this is just what this song makes me think of. It sounds like he is talking about having a family member/friend with cancer who died/is dying and he's suffering through that at the same time as he suffers through his bulemia/anorexia. this song makes me very sad but it's really good and i love it. The song is talking about him showing pictures to somebody. in the beginning it says: this ones of me at my sister's wedding. kind of sounds like it could be a mom with cancer? probably not that's just what it makes me think of.
    Flag annie33on December 09, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:This is clearly about Josh's bulimia. It's haunting, really. It's a very emotional song, and I love it to bits and pieces.

    He gives the bulimia a personality. Like in Skin and Bones, the bulimia is demanding and robs him.

    Gahh, this song is just so great. "This one's of me, losing more weight, feeling afraid..."
    Flag Fallen Leaveson September 11, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Okay so i looked it up and it turns out there are in fact two versions.
    One that says "between these spaces/in these spaces" and one that says "all my faces"
    I've listened to both and the faces one is SOOOOO much better. The synth-ish thing during "all my faces, they all were wasted" just makes it that much better, so if you don't have that version, GET IT. Believe me its definitely worth it...
    Flag myprettylieson July 29, 2009   Link

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