Manchester Orchestra – 100 Dollars

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Several Women's magazines
Stacked up on top of a picture of me
When I tried to call
No one answered

It's not even that I'm all angry
Just wanna know why you would do this thing
You said, theres an understanding

I offer you a small dog in the kitchen
I just wanted you to feel at home

And that's why I'm fine
I am fine, I am fine, I am fine
I just need 100 dollars
And I am fine, I am fine, I am completely fine
I just need 100 dollars
From you
And you and you
And you and you

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    General Comment:I've read everyone's comments and understand that the song is about Andy Hull losing $100.

    But when I listen to it, I get the feeling like coming home on holiday and you get home and see your moms magazine collection on top of the table your picture use to be on and bringing someone with you, like a girlfriend or someone special. Offering her your puppy to pet while you sat in the kitchen so to make her feel better. And you kind of just want to get back to where ever it is you are in life now (school, apartment, w/e). SO everyone keeps asking how things are going with work/school and you tell them the same story you tell them every holiday. You know you'll be getting money from all your relatives because it's holiday season and they don't buy toys anymore, they just all give you money. SO you get fed up and feel like standing up and just yelling

    "I am fine, I am fine, I am fine
    I just need 100 dollars"

    and then pointing to each Aunt and Uncle

    "From you
    And you and you
    And you and you"

    I just think it matches visually well
    Flag jayefon December 09, 2011   Link
  • +1
    Lyric Correction:I believe it is "I offered you a small dog in the kitchen" not "offer".
    Flag Strange1on June 12, 2011   Link
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    Song Meaning:As a couple people have already mentioned, Andy Hull says, "This song is about this time, just because I think it's funny enough, the first time I lost my sh** in front of my wife was when I lost $100. My dad gave me a hundred dollar bill in the kitchen of my parents' house and by the time that I had made it to the car outside I had lost this hundred dollar bill and it was one of those things were like you freak out but it's in no way about the one hundred dollar bill at all. So this song is about that."

    I'm curious, though, does anyone know what the lyrics "I offer you a small dog in the kitchen" refer to? My fiance and I have been trying to figure it out. A hotdog? A chihuahua? How would that make someone feel at home? Anyone have any ideas?
    Flag Strange1on June 12, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:i thought this song was about an abortion. womens magazines (health magazines?) also, i dont know how much an abortion costs. but i was totally wrong!
    Flag deadsailoron January 15, 2011   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:this song is purely breathtaking. and it is even more breathtaking when you get to know what it is about.
    Flag eneeeeeeeon July 05, 2010   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Is it his wife who is singing in the background?
    Flag PrincessLyron March 21, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:for a strange reason this song makes me think of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
    Flag monticelloon February 03, 2010   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:very specific, but i did see an interview of this song
    and he basically said that he had just gotten 100 dollars from his parents, or his wifes parents or something lol
    and, well, go figure, he loses it. and it was "just one of those things that starts to not be the only problem, it adds to so many other things"
    it's hard to rephrase it.
    but when i first heard it, i felt something so much more powerful about this song.
    Flag itsemmaon August 01, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:for some strange reason this song makes me think of Wedding Singer
    Flag hmslax21on May 31, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:correceted sorry, was hard to figure out the first bit :) x
    Flag somedudeon April 24, 2009   Link

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