Lyrics for All My Friends as interpreted by tesla3396

All My Friends Lyrics
That's how it starts
We go back to your house
We check the charts
And start to figure it out

And if it's crowded, all the better
Because we know we're gonna be up late
But if you're worried about the weather
Then you picked the wrong place to stay
That's how it starts

And so it starts
You switch the engine on
We set controls for the heart of the sun
one of the ways we show our age

And if the sun comes up, if the sun comes up, if the sun comes up
And I still don't wanna stagger home
Then it's the memory of our betters
That are keeping us on our feet

You spent the first five years trying to get with the plan
And the next five years trying to be with your friends again

You're talking 45 turns just as fast as you can
Teah, I know it gets tired, but it's better when we pretend

It comes apart
The way it does in bad films
Except in parts
When the moral kicks in

Though when we're running out of the drugs
And the conversation's winding away
I wouldn't trade one stupid decision
For another five years of lies

You drop the first ten years just as fast as you can
And the next ten people who are trying to be polite
When you're blowing eighty-five days in the middle of France
Yeah, I know it gets tired only where are your friends tonight?

And to tell the truth
Oh, this could be the last time
So here we go
Like a sales force into the night

And if I made a fool, if I made a fool, if I made a fool
on the road, there's always this
And if I'm sewn into submission
I can still come home to this

And with a face like a dad and a laughable stand
You can sleep on the plane or review what you said
When you're drunk and the kids leave impossible tasks
You think over and over, "hey, I'm finally dead."

Oh, if the trip and the plan come apart in your hand
Tou look contorted on yourself your ridiculous prop
You forgot what you meant when you read what you said
And you always knew you were tired, but then
Where are your friends tonight?

Where are your friends tonight?
Where are your friends tonight?

If I could see all my friends tonight
If I could see all my friends tonight
If I could see all my friends tonight
If I could see all my friends tonight

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colincsl
03-13-2007

Rated +2 
I was going to add this in early February, got half of the lyrics written, then had to stop and never got back to it.

Also, this line:
"Then it's the memory of our betters
that are keeping us on our feet."
is grammatically incorrect, but that's how he sings it.

I think there are some errors though:
"Oh when we're running out of the drugs
and the conversation's winding away.
I wouldn't trade one stupid decision
for another five years of lies."
I'm pretty sure it's Though, not Oh and that it's life, not lies.

"
You drop the first ten years just as fast as you can,
and the next ten people who are trying to be belied.
When you're blowing eighty-five days in the middle of this,
Yeah, I know it gets tired only wearing on friends tonight."
Should be:

"Oh, you drop the first ten years just as fast as you can,
and the next ten people who are trying to be polite.
When you're blowing eighty-five days in the middle of France"

The last part of that verse is wrong too I think, but I can't quite make it out.

So tell the truth. should be And to tell the truth.
So when we go, should be So here we go,

"And with a face like a dad and a laughable stand,
you leave conceit on the plane or review what you said.
When you're drunk and the kids leave impossible tasks
you think over and over, hey, I finally did."
should be
"And with a face like a dad and a laughable stand,
you can sleep on the plane or review what you said.
When you're drunk and the kids look impossibly tan
you think over and over, 'hey, I'm finally dead.'"

you look concerted on yourself your ridiculous prop.
should be
you look contorted on yourself your ridiculous prop.

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colincsl
03-13-2007

Rated 0 
Bottom line is, when the album comes out I'll hopefully get it for my birthday. If the lyrics are on there, we can make some definite corrections

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mrfirey
03-13-2007

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I agree with colonicsl's corrections. Bottom line though, surely is that this a song of rare epic beauty.

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bobby the dolt
03-18-2007

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its about the uncertainty of life, and the certainty of friends.

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Monkertrol
03-19-2007

Rated 0 
its just amazing is what it is

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douchebag
03-23-2007

Rated 0 
I believe this song is about how it feels after you realize you're no longer a young person and you gradually fall into being an adult. The guy is looking at life through the eyes of an adult and realizing some decisions he makes are immature, but he doesn't necissarily care. At the same time looking back at how he got to where he is now and wondering if it was right. Or maybe this is how I feel right now and I'm warping the song to fit how I feel. ?

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tesla3396
03-24-2007

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Yeah, a lot of the last half of the song I had to listen to over and over to get it that close. I'll go through those corrections and make edits in a bit. A fun project would be to swap out homophones all over the lyrics to see how absurd you could make them (like that weirdo that demolished the stupid Fallout Boy song in the youtube video with MS Paint).

So it's fairly straightforward that the song is a retrospective on the rock 'n roll lifestyle and whether it was worth it and what was actually gained from it. What I liked most about it was the monotony of the keyboard and bass line mimicking a life that just goes on and on, regardless of how tired one gets of it, or how oblivious one is to time's passage. It's as if the melody represents the same repetitive tasks of life: sleep, breathe, do the damn thing, etc.

But what the hell do I know? I drunkenly cried myself to sleep over this song the other night.

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funkeymonkeyman
03-26-2007

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I think the line after "When you're blowing eighty-five days in the middle of France" is "Yeah I know it gets tired only where are your friends tonight?" I think also that I hear "sued into submission" not "sewn into submission" but I don't know how much sense that makes and James Murphy has a way of slurring words so that the lyrics do get difficult to make out towards the end.

At any rate I agree that this is basically a song about being on the cusp of adulthood. Like "The Graduate" or "Garden State" but in a musical format.

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tesla3396
03-31-2007

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Yeah, good lookin' out Colin. I made all those changes, and I also found a "where are your friends tonight?" that was wrong in mine as well.

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colincsl
04-02-2007

Rated +1 
Garden State is a vastly overrated movie

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Robbeh25
04-12-2007

Rated 0 
Also: I wouldn't trade one stupid decision
for another five years of lies.

Is: I wouldn't trade one stupid decision
for another five years of life

Makes more sense in the context as well. Quite like that line - brings up something that I'm sure quite a few drug users (well I definately have) think about; is it worth the possible risk/damage?

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viola has wings
04-13-2007

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This song changed everything. In my whole life. That's all I need to say.

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rossismad
04-21-2007

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I agree, Garden State sucks. What I took from this song is really similar to what everyone else said, but I think his whole sequence of thoughts is just what goes through his mind every time he gets high and wonders what he's accomplished in life so far as well as where his life is heading.

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chibi102
06-10-2007

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the franz ferdinand version is better
and its amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Farenyth
07-16-2007

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In response to the Franz Ferdiand cover: It's nice, but it doesn't contain the same feelings. In LCD, it sounds like Murphy means his lyrics and the lyrics are the centerpiece because of the underlying monotony. (Which further gives you more to symbolize that monotony)

In Franz Ferdiand's piece, it seems the the authors and director understood the meaning of the song, but failed to show it through their work. Lost in translation.

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FeelSoTongueTied
08-13-2007

Rated +1 
I agree and disagree with some of the other things posted.

I think this is not about someone reaching adulthood, but rather someone looking back upon when they were emerging adults.

This song is reflecting about what it was like to reach adulthood, "get with the plan", and then realize that you might not want the plan. You might not want to spend every minute with your partner. And you might want to spend time with your friends.

That's not to say that you don't like the life you have. The lines- "Then it's the memory of our betters / that are keeping us on our feet" suggests that you are still motivated by the life you have with your partner.

But at the same time, you miss the energy, stupidness, and freedom of your younger days. And although you are "showing your age", you still want to have those late nights.

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siblog
09-27-2007

Rated 0 
I would have to agree with Tesla3369 the most because I think Murphy is talking about the rock n roll lifestyle on the road/tour and if it is really worth it. The reason I think this is that it seems like at the end of the song he is wondering where his friends are tonight, as in "I wonder what my friends back home are doing tonight". Is the lifestyle, drugs, partying, interviews, lack of sleep and everything else that comes with fame really worth it?

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nicknle
10-06-2007

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I think this song is about getting married, and giving up youth for adulthood and the regret that follows.

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Mutante
10-10-2007

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Agree with siblog.

The key for me is the line "We set the controls for the heart of the sun, one of the ways we show our age," which fits in with the metaphor of going on a long drug trip as a journey, the "charts" probably meaning people's personal dayplanners and what not. So the narrator is meeting up with old friends, they decide to have a night of fun, but have to check and make sure it's doable in regards to their busy adult lives.

"Set the controls for the heart of the sun," is a line from a Pink Floyd album, in other words, the implied meaning is that they're going to trip and listen to Floyd, which is probably something they did or always wanted to do as teenagers!

And if that got lost on any of you young'uns, well, that's what the lyrics mean about "showing our age".

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Mondenkind
11-01-2007

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One of my best friends gave me this song...a few days ago, he killed himself. He'd asked me to call him Sunday night, but I didn't. Now when I hear that line--"where are your friends tonight?"--I wonder if he wondered that as he was hanging himself.

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BabyBritian
11-22-2007

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"When you're drunk and the kids leave impossible tasks"

I'm pretty sure he said "When your drunk and the kids look impossibly tanned"

which makes more sense with the song

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neah17068
12-15-2007

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For the best description of this song go to www.xpn.org and checked out the archived performance/interview that David Dye had with James on a prior World Cafe episode. Awesome interview- very, very insightful.

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Appers66
12-29-2007

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The "We set controls for the heart of the sun
one of the ways we show our age" line is probably a reference to the Pink Floyd song "Set Controls For The Heart Of The Sun", which was released in 1968 and so WOULD show someone's age to listen to it-- and, judging by LCD Soundsystem's own music taste in Losing My Edge, fits right in with their usual theme.

That comment I'm gonna hafta thank Appers Sr for. =P

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nicexdream
01-03-2008

Rated +1 
sound of silver = one of the best albums of 2007.

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TheAbsolutionHowl
01-14-2008

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My favorite line of this song is definitely "When your drunk and the kids look impossibly tanned you think over and over "Hey, I'm finally dead."

I think this song (and album) is a huge step forward for James Murphy. Let's just hope he can keep this going.

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