When you're ripe you'll
Bleed out of control
You'll bleed out of control
You like attention
It's proof to you you're alive
Stop parading your angles
Confused?
You'll know when you're ripe
When you're ripe you'll
Bleed out of control
You'll bleed out of control
You're pregnant with all this
Space thick with honey
But I lost my taste
You're into depression cause
It matches your eyes
Stop this faux to be famous
Confused?
You'll know when you're ripe



Lyrics submitted by sawg

Track duration: 04:02

"Elite" as written by Chino/cheng Moreno

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    My Interpretation:I was listening to the song the whole night and finally got my interpretation and it seems pretty logic and obvious to me.My interpretation is more complex and you have to read it carefully. Now lets do it...

    It all starts with young women becoming mature, they start to get their period.
    Becoming mature also means that they want to be in the focus,crawling for attention.
    "You like attention, it proves to you you're alive" means that when becoming ripe, they want to be the center of everything and they try everything to attain their goals and they will not stop to be fake or to lie.
    They try to achieve their goals so hard but they forget that people already noticed that they are fake --> ("Thick with honey,but I lost my taste").
    Now the "bleeding out of control" comes in.
    People noticed your lying and faking and your construct of lies and fakes starts to crumble, it's the same when your body looses all its blood (bleed out of control). When the blood is gone, you're dead and lost the struggle to become the "Elite".
    Flag Limptoneson January 22, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:this song is fucking sick =] love this shit.

    and id have to agree with lateralus518 and broadway beav and many of you others who come to almost the same conculsion as this..

    fuck plastic!!

    Flag marleyjones19on May 13, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Oh BTW I know this is pretty random but Chino sounds like a Kantus Priest from Gears of War 2 in this song lol.
    Flag Alexbeetchon April 29, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I think it's about people who do the "emo" fashion just to get attention.
    Flag Alexbeetchon April 29, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:"this is laughing at everybody trying to become what they already are. if you want to be one of the elite, you are. im sort of the asshole in the song, pretty much talking shit about everybody else. you're supposed to feel stupid after listening to it and wonder what it is to be elite." - Chino

    straight from Chino's mouth
    Flag aaronnovakon April 08, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:i think this song is about those people who always like to be a center of attention which sometimes they look more stupid and ignorant..!
    Flag Venumon April 30, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:when I listen to this song, I think about the emo fad.

    "you're into depression because it matches your eyes"
    mascara, and people pretending to be depressed for the image.

    "stop parading your angles"
    the emo myspace angle photos
    Flag mesoon January 23, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Chinos explaination is interesting
    Flag Juston December 16, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:This song is a classic example of Chino's ambiguity in lyrics. You can decipher all this different stuff out of them, and you're kinda supposed to make your own interpretation of them though. And I'm keeping mine private.

    -Irams
    Flag Sombre_Eclectionon November 12, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:"You’re into depression cause
    It matches your eyes"

    This line makes me think of all these middle-class, fashioncore kids who live nearly perfect lives but pretends to be "depressed" just cause that's what's popular right now...
    Flag Bockopon November 10, 2007   Link

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