Lyrics for Blue Tulip as interpreted by smileforthecamera

Blue Tulip Lyrics
They're waiting to hate you
So give them an excuse
They say that it changed you
I know that can't be true

I came in the entrance the makeup girl went through
And waited for ages, I waited there for you

Hats off to my distant hope
I'm held back by a velvet rope
And he's behind the wall the smoke machine has made between us
And if he does exist, if camera clicking, green room guests swirl round the man whose real life can be touched
Then I will do just that much

Hats off to my distant hope
A little lie, a puff of smoke
My street tonight's on fire with hope
You'll be there, you'll see us
I've got my ear against the screen
I'll feel your feelings crackling
For every single inch of me, I'm going to make you mean it
With every single cell of me, I'm going to make you mean the words you sigh
You lie

Goodbye
Goodbye

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Way_AE
07-21-2008

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It seems kind of like "On Tour With Zykos" - a relationship, or at least a yearning for one, separated by one's rise to fame.

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Appers66
07-26-2008

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I think Will said something around the time they released Stage Names that he'd been obsessing over the idea of the groupie lifestyle- and of course, the big figure of the double album, Shannon Wilsey, started out her story as a groupie. So I guess this is like the sister-song to Girl In Port off the last album, written from the groupie's point of view.

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digitaux
08-23-2008

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Well this is clearly the stand-out of The Stand-Ins. Thank you smileforthecamera and Appers66 (you're almost certainly correct with your interpretation and it being a "response" to "A Girl in Port," the six-minute triumphal stand-out of THAT album). I also think there's a possible religious double entendre (fully intentional) that deflates the worshipped status of rock stars. ("If he does exist..." etc.)

A few corrections:
"A little lie" is actually "A ray of light"

and "Feelings crackling
Through me..."

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w3stfa11
03-05-2009

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This was called "Tomb of an Unknown Rocker" before it was put on the album. Might help with the meaning a bit.

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