One of those fucking awful black days
When nothing is pleasing and everything that happens
Is an excuse for anger
An outlet for emotions stockpiled, an arsenal, an armour

These are the days when I hate the world
Hate the rich, hate the happy
Hate the complacent, the TV watchers
Beer drinkers, the satisfied ones

Because I know I can be all of those little hateful things
And then I hate myself for realizing that
There's no preventative, directive or safe approach for living
We each know our own fate

We know from our youth how to be treated
How we'll be received, how we shall end
These things don't change

You can change your clothes
Change your hairstyle, your friends, cities, continents
But sooner or later your own self will always catch up
Always it waits in the wings

Ideas swirl but don't stick
They appear but then run off like rain on the windshield

One of those rainy day car rides, my head implodes
The atmosphere in this car, a mirror of my skull
Wet, damp, windows dripping and misted with cold
Walls of grey, nothing good on the radio, not a thought in my head

I know a place we can go where you'll fall in love so hard that
You'll wish you were dead

Let's take life and slow it down incredibly slow
Frame by frame
With two minutes that take ten years to live out
Yeah, let's do that

Telephone poles like praying mantis against the sky
Metal arms outstretched
So much land travelled, so little sense made of it
It doesn't mean a thing, all this land laid out behind us

I'd like to take off into these woods and get good and lost for a while
I'm disgusted with petty concerns
Parking tickets, breakfast specials
Does someone just have to carry this weight?

Abstract typography, methane covenant
Linear gospel, Nashville sales lady, stocky emissary
Torturous lice, mad Elizabeth
Chemotherapy bullshit

I know a place we can go where you'll fall in love so hard that
You'll wish you were dead

The light within you shines like a diamond mine
Like an unarmed walrus, like a dead man face down on the highway
Like a snake eating its own tail
A steam turbine, frog pond

Two full closets burst open in disarray, soap bubbles in the sun
Hospital death bed, red convertible, shopping list, blowjob
Deaths head, devils dancing, bleached white buildings, memory
Movements, the movie unpeeling, unreeling, about to begin

I know a place we can go where you'll fall in love so hard that
You'll wish you were dead

I've seen your hallway, you're a darn call away
I've hear your stairs creak, I can fix my mind on your yes
And your no, I'll film your face today in the sparkling canals
All red, yellow, blue, green brilliance and silver Dutch reflection

Racing thoughts, racing thoughts, all too real
You're moving so fast now, I can't hold your image
This image I have of your face by the window
Me standing beside you, arm on your shoulder
A catalogue of images, flashing glimpses, then gone again

I'm tethered to this post you've sunk in me
And every clear afternoon now I'll think of you, up in the air
Twisting your heel, your knees up around me, my face in your hair
You scream so well, your smile so loud, it still rings in my ears

I know a place we can go where you'll fall in love so hard that
You'll wish you were dead

Inhibition, distant, tired of longing
Clean my teeth, stay the course
Hold the wheel, steer on to freedom
Open all the boxes, open all the boxes
Open all the boxes, open all the boxes

Times Square midday, newspaper buildings, news headlines going around
You watch as they go and hope for some good ones
Those tree shadows in the park they're all whispering, chasing leaves

Around six PM, shadows across the cobblestones
Girl in front of bathroom mirror
As she slowly and carefully and paints her face green, mask-like
Like Matisse, "Portrait with Green Stripe"

Long shot through apartment window
A monologue on top but no girl in shot

The light within me shines like a diamond mine
Like an unarmed walrus, like a dead man face down on the highway
Like a snake eating its own tail
A steam turbine, frog pond

Two full closets burst open in disarray, soap bubbles in the sun
Hospital death bed, red convertible, shopping list, blowjob
Deaths head, devils dancing, bleached white buildings, memory
Movements, the movie unreeling, about to begin

That was great by me
Yeah? Mine were alright. Wasn't my best one but who cares?
That's the spirit



Lyrics submitted by PapaSlurp, edited by TheBowser

Track duration: 05:55

"Be Safe" as written by Ross Jarman Ryan Jarman"

Lyrics © CHRYSALIS MUSIC GROUP

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    General Comment:this song is simple, it just about one of those days where you feel completely apathetic and separate from everyone else. Nothing seems to make an sense or have any significance but the next day you will wake up and feel completely normal.
    Flag fannyrogerson June 07, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:great song, anybody else first hear it on Never back down? anyways i don't get the unarmed walrus part?
    Flag ccslax6on August 30, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:Simply brilliant.
    Flag TheArchMonkon August 20, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I think it actually goes "I know a place we can go where you'll fall in love so hard that you'll wish you were ten" could be wrong tho.
    Flag johnnymarr11on July 15, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:fucking brilliant... I think it has many interpretations one being cancer.. losing life
    Flagged rocccrenaudon April 16, 2010   Link
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    Song Meaning:I was thinking about it like this, mostly when I was trying to see how "Open all the boxes" fit in with any interpretation.

    Oftentimes when a signficiant other leaves you, people pack everything that reminds them of that person in boxes and put them away somewhere. He's saying to open all the boxes, let those things back out into the light of day.

    Whether he's gotten over the heartbreak is up for debate, but it seems like he wants those feelings, emotions, memories, and moments back in his life, not tucked away somewhere.

    And after he says it once, he repeats himself over and over again, as with each box he opens he feels rejuvenated, alive, and waves of new emotions that he wants to keep opening boxes, both literal and metaphorical, of memories hes stashed away, probably both good and bad.

    Or...I could be talking out my ass.
    Flag deadboysneedlunchon August 14, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I think this song expresses perfectly how you feel when you've been through something terrible that makes your whole life and the whole world seem meaningless and trivial. Being "disgusted with petty concerns", realising that it's actually all crap, that people put such importance on things that really don't matter.

    "We each know our own faith"
    should be
    "We each know our own fate"

    We all know how we shall end...we're going to die. None of these "petty concerns" will matter then, nothing like clothes, hairstyles or moving cities can change the reality of your self and your fate.

    I like the line about the light within him shining like a diamond mine...it's sarcastic/ironic. A diamond mine is a dark and dangerous place where people are exploited and used as slaves...the diamonds do not shine at all within it.

    My personal interpretation is that he's experienced the drawn-out death of his girlfriend through cancer (hence the line "chemotherapy bullsh*t", mistakenly written here as "keep a better peoples").
    The seemingly random lists I think are fragments of memories of him and his girlfriend, good mixed with bad. They include "hospital death bed" "bleached white buildings" "deaths head". I think the words are an outburst of emotions he has kept buried, "stockpiled", about his loss. "Open all the boxes" could mean letting out his emotions and also creates an image of him going through/organising her belongings after she has died.

    The words "Cleaning my teeth" portray to me that he is utterly fed up with and depressed by mundane routine of day-to-day life.

    "untethered to this post" should be "I'm tethered to this post you've sunk in me"...I think meaning that he cannot forget her or move on.
    Flag littlebeaon July 19, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:favourite from this album
    i always thought it was just a mess of thoughts
    :)
    Flag dellvkhon May 19, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:(keep a better peoples)

    ^^I think that part says "chemotherapy bullshit".
    Flag makencheezieon April 22, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:After reading the lyrics a few times I have come to the conclusion that this song is about a woman he loved which left him.

    In the first verse he states all the things he could be but can't because he still isn't over his loss. After realizing that he can move on, he angers himself even more.

    The setting is his reliving the past while on a car ride. He doesn't notice anything that is going on around him because he is too focused on his past. The dark hallway is the girl that left him. A memory that is depressing but finally over when he loses the images. Finally "untethered" to the post that she has sunk in him. His comment "then dawn again" shows that he is done thinking of the bad times and now he is focusing on the good times like the times they made love.

    This euphoric feeling ends up being temporary because he ends the song by repeating a recent verse.

    I could get more in-depth about this but I thought I would just put the general idea of what I got out of this song.

    What do you all think?
    Flag IanTheFIUyankon January 15, 2009   Link

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