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It's all a game of this or that
Now verses then
Better off against
Worse for wear
And you're someone
Who knows someone who knows someone I once knew
And I just want to be a part of this
The road outside my house
Is paved with good intentions
Hired a construction crew
'Cause it's hell on the engine
And you are the dreamer
And we are the dream
I could write it better than you ever felt it
[Chorus:]
So hum hallelujah
Just off the key of reason
I thought I loved you
But it's just how you looked in the light
A teenage vow in a parking lot
Till tonight do us part
I sing the blues and swallow them too
My words are my faith
To hell with our good name
A remix up your guts
Your insides x-rayed
And one day we'll get nostalgic for disaster
We're a bull
Your ears are just a china shop
I love you in the same way
There's a chapel in a hospital
One foot in your bedroom
And one foot out the door
Sometimes we take chances
Sometimes we take pills
I could write it better than you ever felt it
[Chorus]
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelu... (hum hallelujah)
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelu... (hum hallelujah)
A teenage vow in a parking lot
Till tonight do us part
I sing the blues
And swallow them too
So, hum hallelujah
Just off the key of reason
I thought I loved you
It's just how you looked in the light
A teenage vow in a parking lot
Till tonight do us part
A teenage love in a parking lot
Till tonight do us part
A teenage vow in a parking lot
Till tonight do us part
I sing the blues and swallow them too
Now verses then
Better off against
Worse for wear
And you're someone
Who knows someone who knows someone I once knew
And I just want to be a part of this
The road outside my house
Is paved with good intentions
Hired a construction crew
'Cause it's hell on the engine
And you are the dreamer
And we are the dream
I could write it better than you ever felt it
[Chorus:]
So hum hallelujah
Just off the key of reason
I thought I loved you
But it's just how you looked in the light
A teenage vow in a parking lot
Till tonight do us part
I sing the blues and swallow them too
My words are my faith
To hell with our good name
A remix up your guts
Your insides x-rayed
And one day we'll get nostalgic for disaster
We're a bull
Your ears are just a china shop
I love you in the same way
There's a chapel in a hospital
One foot in your bedroom
And one foot out the door
Sometimes we take chances
Sometimes we take pills
I could write it better than you ever felt it
[Chorus]
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelu... (hum hallelujah)
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelu... (hum hallelujah)
A teenage vow in a parking lot
Till tonight do us part
I sing the blues
And swallow them too
So, hum hallelujah
Just off the key of reason
I thought I loved you
It's just how you looked in the light
A teenage vow in a parking lot
Till tonight do us part
A teenage love in a parking lot
Till tonight do us part
A teenage vow in a parking lot
Till tonight do us part
I sing the blues and swallow them too
Lyrics submitted by suchaxsucker, edited by lordoi
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"Hum Hallelujah" as written by Leonard Cohen, Peter Wentz, Patrick Stump, Joseph Trohman, Andrew Hurley
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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You have-
It's all a game of this or that
Now verses then
Better off against worse for wear
But, it sounds to me like he's saying-
It's all a game of this or that
Now versus them
Better off against worse for wear
"versus" makes more sense since it's followed by "better off against" Maybe I'm wrong but it's just what I've noticed.
"I love you in the same way
there's a chapel in a hospital
One foot in your bedroom
And one foot out the door"
to mean that he's facing a kind of contradiction. At a hospital you have hope that your love one will be cured but the chapel is there to pray for God to take them home. If you trust the doctors enough to be there, why do you need the chapel? Does that make sense to anyone but me?
The bassist revealed that he was mentally out of control at the time and he was close to taking his life by taking an overdose of an anti-anxiety prescription drug called Ativan.
He told MTV: "I got in my car. I remember I was listening to Jeff Buckley doing Leonard Cohen's ‘Hallelujah’ and sat there and took a bunch of Ativan in a Best Buy parking lot.
“I called up my manager because I was, at that point, completely out of my head with Ativan. And I was talking to him and I was slurring my words, so he called my mom and my mom called me and she came and got me and we went to the hospital."
Fortunately Pete recovered from the bout of depression and went on to become a multi-million selling rock star and date Ashlee Simpson.
entertainmentwise.com
Stanza 1. She gloats about the intimacy of their relationship like it doesn't matter. She thinks it's helping her but it only makes things worse.
2. She always knows someone to go to for a nice rant. He's starting to think he doesn't know her.
3. The relationship started out supposedly innocent, but it led to him only wanting one thing from her, not being attracted to her personality at all. He had to back himself up with her appearance to make it work. She thinks he loves her completely, and he knows this. He knows her personality so well now that he can explain it in words.
Stanza Refrain 1: He's thankful for their relationship despite the fact it is unreasonable and based on nothing. He thought he loved her for her mind, but it was only what she showed him before they were together that drew him in.
Stanza Refrain 2: It sounds like they had vowed to love each other in the back of his car in a Wal-Mart parking lot or maybe Target or something. In the end they just vowed to act like they were lovers until the night ended.
4. He knows all of the bad things about her, and they both are beginning to like the drama and pain they've inflicted on the other.
5. They're starting to hurt each other, and the damage is getting to be a permanent affliction. They're addicted to the drama and the pain.
Pretty much my whole interpretation. Again, only my opinion and a story I can't get out of my mind when I listen to it.