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A little after 12
The function sweet was full
With people I had never seen before
Ripped up ticket stubs
Confetti on the floor
It dawned on me I'd seen it all before
Cool your beans my son
You look a fucking mess
No ones getting out of here tonight
Hit that button there
The one that just says wrong
We'll lose our lives through all our favorite songs
[Chorus]
Go forward to later you'll land flat on your feet
When you were in the room, I was nailed to my seat
I'm like a prisoner getting ready to talk
I feel the blood in my hands and the threat in your walk
And suddenly it lifts the roof off the place
It puts a volt in my step
And a grin on my face
It cant contain me but you leaning on me
To get me back in my box
And snap the branches off me
A little after 4
The function suite is dead
And I am just a ripped up ticket stub
But here's a helping hand
A voice that's far to close
And I am up and on my broken limbs
[Chorus]
And suddenly it lifts the roof of the place
It puts a volt in my step
And a grin on my face
It cant contain me but you leaning on me
To get me back in my box
And snap the branches off me
The function sweet was full
With people I had never seen before
Ripped up ticket stubs
Confetti on the floor
It dawned on me I'd seen it all before
Cool your beans my son
You look a fucking mess
No ones getting out of here tonight
Hit that button there
The one that just says wrong
We'll lose our lives through all our favorite songs
[Chorus]
Go forward to later you'll land flat on your feet
When you were in the room, I was nailed to my seat
I'm like a prisoner getting ready to talk
I feel the blood in my hands and the threat in your walk
And suddenly it lifts the roof off the place
It puts a volt in my step
And a grin on my face
It cant contain me but you leaning on me
To get me back in my box
And snap the branches off me
A little after 4
The function suite is dead
And I am just a ripped up ticket stub
But here's a helping hand
A voice that's far to close
And I am up and on my broken limbs
[Chorus]
And suddenly it lifts the roof of the place
It puts a volt in my step
And a grin on my face
It cant contain me but you leaning on me
To get me back in my box
And snap the branches off me
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i love playing this song when im having a bad day. just sums up how i feel!
'cool your beans my son'. doesnt get much more northern irish than that! good ole norn iron talent for ya!
"throw forward to later you look light on your feet when you whirled in the room, i was nailed to my seat"
"But here's a helping hand
A voice that's far too close
And I am up and on my broken limbs"
refers to.
I'll let Gary himself explain the song title:
"Very scary times. That song is about my mid-twenties, when I definitely had a disaster button. It was very easily pushed and all around me turned to calamity very fast. It's me looking back on a few specific incidents where I could have handled myself a little better."
If you've ever been there you'll understand how what I wrote corresponds to what you said.
You drink to much to escape from pressures and whatnot, and the drink changes you.
los weekend, i live in northern ireland and i personally know that lots of people say 'cool your beans' so please dont try and mock the genius of gary lightbody please
i can see 3lancers point about teenage life and toms part about drinking, both make sense
im just glad snow patrol are back with a grea new album after such a long anticipated wait after the unbelieveable eyes open :D:D
who even says that phrase anymore.it sounds like something an old man would say.lol
I think I can see the drinking idea, now that you mention it Tom.