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Are you having trouble finding sleep at night?
Or does your lack of conscience tell you
Everything's all right?
I trust your good intentions
That you're watching over friends
You must think that I'm crazy
If I don't see through that grin
So tell me what your best friend knows
That I don't know
Tell me why you talk me down
Wherever you go
You're a saint, you're a queen
And I'm just another boy without a crown
Tell me why you sell me out everywhere you go
I just wanna know what your best friend knows
So vindictive, you'll say anything you like
The smile you fake, the steps you take
You know you never could get it right
And talk is cheap
So make believe your secrets find the grave
It's too late, you gave up
Your last chance to walk away
So tell me what your best friend knows
That I don't know
Tell me why you talk me down
Wherever you go
You're a saint, you're a queen
And I'm just another boy without a crown
Tell me why you sell me out everywhere you go
I just wanna know what your best friend knows
You stand a little too tall, say a little too much
Gonna bite that know it all tongue
You tried a little too hard, now I'm calling that bluff
Big plans are coming undone
That's just typical, you're so cynical
Couldn't have me, I didn't want you
You're selling me out to the girl I can't afford to lose
You stand a little too tall, say a little too much
You're gonna bite that know it all tongue
You tried a little too hard, now I'm calling that bluff
Big plans are coming undone
That's just typical, you're so cynical
Couldn't have me, I didn't want you
You set yourself up to lose
So tell me what your best friend knows
That I don't know
Tell me why you talk me down
Wherever you go
You're a saint, you're a queen
And I'm just another boy without a crown
Tell me why you sell me out everywhere you go
I just wanna know what your best friend knows
What your best friend knows
I'm never gonna let this go
What your best friend knows
Lyrics submitted by thoseguiltyeyes
Track duration: 03:20
"Keep the Change, You Filthy Animal" as written by Jack Bassam Barakat, Robert Ryan Dawson, Alexander William Gaskarth, Zachary Steven Merrick, Matthew Bach Squire
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Love love love this song.
She likes him to, but maybe he isn't as cool as all her friends? So she puts him down and tries to hide their relationship from everyone. She keeps telling him she likes him and that she will tell her frieds about them later "So vindictive. You'll say anything you like." but she never does. He finalt gets tired of trying to be with her and tells her she is a liar and that unless she tells her freinds then he doesn't believe her "So talk is cheap." She kinda listens to him but ot realy; she tells him she will tell her friends. . but like always she lies. So now he decides he is going to call her out and let her best friends and everyone else know. "Stand a little to tall, say a little to much. Going to bite that know-it-all tongue. You tried a little to hard now I'm calling that a bluff, Big plans are coming udone."
So he has just told her friends and they are all asking her and are mad because she has been lying to them. They are telling her she tried a little to hard to hide it and now they can see trough her lies.
"That's just typical, you're so cynical. You couldn't have me. I didn't want you. You set yourself up to lose." So now she is begging him back and says she really doesn't care what her friends think but he just laughs and tells her this is exactly what I woud expect from you.. it's typical.. and he tells her she is pretty much a dirty liar. He tells her she can't have him .. because he doens't want her. She set her own self up for that fall.
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All Time Low ALWAYSSS writes the BEST!!!!!!! lyrics :]
a-
This guy [Most Likely Alex]
didn't like a girl and was trying to get her best friend to tell him what she thought about him
[Tell me what your best friend knows; That i dont know]
But the girl is very sarcastic [or cynical in this case] and always sells him out or makes him look bad
But something about her makes him keep coming back for more and ends up liking her [the girl not the friend] but not liking that he likes her and she is "screwing it up for herself" by making him look bad
[couldn't have me; I didn't want you; you set yourself up too loose]
or
b-
Like someone said earlier
A girl liked him but he didn't like her
so she obviously got annoyed and started talking crap
about him and everyone knew.
"Are you having trouble finding sleep at night?
Or does your lack of conscience tell you
Everything's all right?"
It makes me giggle every time I listen to this song. It's very catchy, and i love it. And basically I think everyone has the right idea.
Key line: "Couldn't have me, I didn't want you, You're selling me out to the girl I can't afford to lose."
More specifically in the storyline of the story, it's a girl he wanted
but he ended up turning her down.
[Couldn't have me, I didn't want you]
And she ended up talking shit about him to everyone,
including Lisa [the girl I can't afford to lose].
It's a very high-school song. I love it. (:
And it's not about him dating her best friend.
The line "tell me what your best friend knows that I don't know"
is about rumors because the first person someone gossips to is usually their best friend.
So he's basically being sort-of sarcastic saying,
"So, what's the latest dirt on me, girls? I'm dying to know."
It makes more sense that way if you think about it.
I love this song, though, because I get my name put in people's mouths all the time for no reason
other than I'm not a whore, so they make shit up saying I am.
So I think it's fantastic to have something this relatable.
Poor Alex. Sick of rumors. ):
The Home Alone reference is boss, btw.