This might sting a bit
You got here just in time to see everything fall apart
I'm not upset at all
But it's sad to see that everybody knows
That I've been down in here before and maybe I could want it more
I know I never tried to stop I never try

Shut your mouth and hey
So what's one more excuse, guess
I just like the abuse
Dizzied up in my never try vertigo
They're calling out for blood, guess it's just understood
Said we'd always try, as long as
I just don't do

Disappointed
And no one thought that this would be me and my everything
Is this pound of flesh enough
And I'll cut away until you say enough
I've been down in here before and maybe I could hit some more
I know I never tried to stop I never try

Shut your mouth and hey
So what's one more excuse, guess
I just like the abuse
Dizzied up in my never try vertigo
They're calling out for blood, guess it's just understood
Said we'd always try, as long as
I just don't do

Heartbeat, heartbeat

Hey
So what's one more excuse, guess
I just like the abuse
Dizzied up in my never try vertigo
They're calling out for blood, guess it's just understood
Said we'd always try, as long as
So what's a little vertigo? (Tell me what you wanna know)
So what's a little vertigo? (Tell me what you wanna know)
So what's a little vertigo? (Tell me what you wanna know)
So what's a little vertigo? (Tell me what you wanna know)
So what's a little vertigo? (Tell me what you wanna know)



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Track duration: 03:20

"Vertigo" as written by Ian Levine, Fiachra Trench

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    General Comment:wow that was long...
    Flag SMTFxCon August 14, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:Vertigo: a type of dizziness, where there is a feeling of motion when one is stationary.

    haha "vert" is green in french? lol maybe thats what you were connecting it to :P
    and 'indigo' is a colour ... so maybe you were kinda combining them? xD

    anyways i think this song is about josh's heroin addiction

    here is my interpretation of the lyrics, but remember with the genius that is marianas trench, their songs can be seen different ways depending on who is listening :)

    "This might sting a bit"
    Sting = taking heroin

    "You got here just in time to see everything fall apart"
    the person who found out about josh's addiction found out just in time to see it take over his life

    "I'm not upset at all
    But it's sad to see that everybody knows
    That I've been down in here before"
    kinda says that he doesnt regret doing it (which he does :P .. but not in the song)
    but he doesnt like others knowing that he has done it

    "maybe I could want it more"
    maybe he could still become more addicted = reassuring himself that it is not as bad as it could be

    "I know I never tried to stop I never try"
    he has never tried to kick his addiction

    "So what's one more excuse, guess
    I just like the abuse"
    he just doesn't care that he is doing heroin, he just likes the feeling that it gives him, although he knows that he is slowly killing himself (self abuse)

    "Dizzied up in my never try vertigo"
    dizzy = how you feel when experiencing vertigo
    never try vertigo = never do it to yourself

    “They're calling out for blood, guess it's just understood”
    theyre=heroin
    blood=life
    guess that it is just kinda implied that you will die once addicted to heroin (unless you stop yourself.. which josh did, which I am so proud of <3 )


    "Said we'd always try, as long as
    I just don't do"
    though that he would try it, but not become addicted

    "no one thought that this would be me and my everything"
    no one expected that his life was being taken over by a drug addiction

    "Is this pound of flesh enough
    And I'll cut away until you say enough"
    pound of flesh = what shylock (bad guy :P) had to give Antonio (good guy xD ) in shakespeares 'the merchant of venice' for breaking a 'bond' (promise)
    josh is saying that he will (metaphorically) cut away this 'pound of flesh' until the other person (or his addiction) is pleased... so basically he will keep killing himself until his craving is fed.
    (haha i was supprised mtrench put a shakespeare anology in a song :P ... unless it is all some weird coincidence ... lol im proud of myself for remembering this from grade 9 english xD)

    "I've been down in here before and maybe I could hit some more
    I know I never tried to stop I never try"
    he has done heroin before, and he will keep doing it until he decides to stop.. but 'he never tries'

    "Heartbeat, heartbeat"
    the only thing you really know is real when doing drugs

    and that is about it :P
    this is a really great song, as are all of MT's :) <3
    LOVE YOU MARIANAS TRENCH!! <333 :)
    Flag SMTFxCon August 14, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:i a huge M-trench fan the are the world fuckin best band im so proud to be Canadian
    and they are so cccccccccccccuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuutttttttttttteeeeeeeeeeeeee
    but a lot of their songs are so sad i feel so bad for josh and all that stuff he went through
    but his life has totaly turned for the better ever since becoming famous
    GO MARIANAS TRENCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YAAAA
    Flag buttercup647on May 29, 2010   Link
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    My Opinion:I love the heartbeat,heartbeat part it's like the intensity of the song.
    Flag alley13kon July 13, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I honestly thought vertigo was a colour.
    Flag Fallen Leaveson February 14, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Funny story about me, and it has something to do with this song:
    I was listening to it on my iPod a few hours ago, and I paused right near the end (about nine or ten seconds before the end of the song), during Josh's scream.
    So when I put the song on "play" again, I heard...
    "WHAAAAAAAAAAH"
    It was really freaky, but it was hilarious.

    Anyway, I love this song.
    Although that may be because I'm a huge M-Trench fan.
    Hehehe.
    Flag Schlechter Penguinon November 05, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:That's so awesome you met Josh Ramsay.

    I wanted to see one of their shows, they were with Three Days Grace and some other really good bands, and I was pysched, and I was going to buy some tickets and I got angry because you have to be nineteen and up to attend.

    He remembered you that is awesome!

    I wish I met Marianas Trench... or any other good band member for that matter!
    Flag Fallen Leaveson October 12, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:vertigo is the dizziness and numb he experienced when he was under the influence of heroin
    Flag musiquenoteson September 20, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:i don't know him know him.. if that makes sense lmfao but i've been to 4 concerts and i've talked to him alot at those concerts and he remebered me last time, so... uh kinda... we have a secret handshake, he remebered that too lmfao, i was proud of him:)
    Flag musiquenoteson September 20, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:You know Josh Ramsey? :O

    I actually thought this song was about abuse. Not self mutilation abuse, but as in, parental abuse, or whenever someone would hit you, and the vertigo was the bruise. Vertigo is a color.... right?
    Flag Fallen Leaveson September 17, 2007   Link

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