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I know you love how I make it all go away
all the joy, all the pain, all thoughts in your brain
For the price of your soul, I will hold your heart in my talons
For three summers straight you've been my sweet eye candy
and no one will ever, ever, take you away from me
I saw, I smelled what he did to you, girl
and to be frank, the thought makes my innards curl
How he preyed on your ripe insecurities
The thorn in your side is alive, and it's killing me
Obscure records entombed in his room with mechanical lust
diapered, desolate middle-aged doom
On your knees in his downtrodden shit-eating grin of a room
If only you'd meet me here soon
If only you'd start breathing, I'd court you exclusively
With my shovel, I'm pounding earth 'til suddenly I see
You awake from the dirt and the grime
stretch your fractured, pretzel spine
out to take your revenge for the crime
filled with fire and finally mine.
Paraded you around like a second place prize,
hair done up, black holes painted on your eyes
Held a book burning in your back yard
while your parents observed from their window, slightly scarred
And I've watched with my shovel in hand
I have in faith in you, child
From his nightmares I've plucked a plan
where that prick, to the world, is revealed as a wicked man
This is a prayer from your biggest fan
If only you could see me, we'd dance like a heart attack
With a wail you let them know you're furious, you're back
You awake from the dirt and the grime
stretch your fractured, pretzel spine
out to take your revenge for the crime
filled with fire and finally mine
You awake from the grave that he dug
pulsing, boiling, angry blood
Well aware that I'm falling in love
Filled with fire, I'm drinking gasoline to make it go faster
Gasoline will make it grow much faster
Gasoline to make it go faster
Gasoline will make it grow much faster
Faster (faster)
Faster (faster)
Faster (faster)
Faster (faster)
Faster (faster)
Faster (faster)
Faster (faster)
Faster
all the joy, all the pain, all thoughts in your brain
For the price of your soul, I will hold your heart in my talons
For three summers straight you've been my sweet eye candy
and no one will ever, ever, take you away from me
I saw, I smelled what he did to you, girl
and to be frank, the thought makes my innards curl
How he preyed on your ripe insecurities
The thorn in your side is alive, and it's killing me
Obscure records entombed in his room with mechanical lust
diapered, desolate middle-aged doom
On your knees in his downtrodden shit-eating grin of a room
If only you'd meet me here soon
If only you'd start breathing, I'd court you exclusively
With my shovel, I'm pounding earth 'til suddenly I see
You awake from the dirt and the grime
stretch your fractured, pretzel spine
out to take your revenge for the crime
filled with fire and finally mine.
Paraded you around like a second place prize,
hair done up, black holes painted on your eyes
Held a book burning in your back yard
while your parents observed from their window, slightly scarred
And I've watched with my shovel in hand
I have in faith in you, child
From his nightmares I've plucked a plan
where that prick, to the world, is revealed as a wicked man
This is a prayer from your biggest fan
If only you could see me, we'd dance like a heart attack
With a wail you let them know you're furious, you're back
You awake from the dirt and the grime
stretch your fractured, pretzel spine
out to take your revenge for the crime
filled with fire and finally mine
You awake from the grave that he dug
pulsing, boiling, angry blood
Well aware that I'm falling in love
Filled with fire, I'm drinking gasoline to make it go faster
Gasoline will make it grow much faster
Gasoline to make it go faster
Gasoline will make it grow much faster
Faster (faster)
Faster (faster)
Faster (faster)
Faster (faster)
Faster (faster)
Faster (faster)
Faster (faster)
Faster
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I think Max wrote this song in anger to her ex-husband and how he resents what he did to his (then) girlfriend, now wife. How he and "dead" Sherri are both out to kill this man because he had "killed" Sherri.
The ending though, I have no idea what the gasoline is about.
I feel like I'm accurate, but honestly Max is so intricate with his lyrics that it could be about anything!
Not a sandwich though.
Max and her then become a couple and they burn everything the awful guy has
In the end, I see it as him convincing her to get off the drugs, and in typical pseudo-happy Say Anything endings, burn his house down. "Gasoline will make this go much faster", like a Bond-esque one liner.
but someone said this is about a time max was freaking out
because he thought john killed laura.
"I know you love how I make it all go away
All the joy, all the pain, all the thoughts in your brain
For the price of your soul I will hold your heart in my talons
For three summers straight you've been my sweet arm candy
And no one will ever, ever take you away from me"
To me, that just sounds like losing all your senses to an addiction and have it basket your life. Not necessarliy it being about a kidnapped girl or whatever. That may be a cover up for the real meaning. I might be way off base, but thats just my opinion.
"Sweet arm candy"
"hold you in my talons"
"How I make it all go away"
Sounds like shooting something up with a needle.
As for the whole song, I think its just lyrical beauty and metaphor.
If this is a concecpt album told from Max's point of view.
He is watching this girls life being ruined by drugs, and maybe he liked her and wanted to be with her.
But drugs are ruining her, and he wants to try and find the lost soul of the girl he once knnew before drugs.
I think its something like that. Just my opinion.
For the price of your soul I will hold your heart in my talons
For three summers straight you've been my sweet arm candy
"arm candy" being the person you bring to social events, premiers, and record label parties, because she'll make YOU look better, how else would you get this great person on your arm?
Also, suggesting "deslolate middle-aged doom", that would be those old men you see dating young women for no apparent reason.