Lyrics for A Movie Script Ending as interpreted by jephque

A Movie Script Ending Lyrics
Whenever I come back
The air on Railroad is making the same sounds
And the shop fronts on Holly are dirty words
(Asterisks in for the vowels)
We peered through the windows
New bottoms on barstools
But the people remain the same
With prices inflating, inflating

As if saved from the gallows
There's a bellow of buzzers
And the people stop working
And they're all so excited, excited

Passing through unconscious states
When I awoke I was on the highway
Highway, highway, highway

With your hand on my shoulders
A meaningless movement
A movie script ending
And the patrons are leaving, leaving

Passing through unconscious states
When I awoke I was on the highway
Highway, highway, highway
Highway, highway, highway, highway

Now we all know the words were true
In the sappiest songs, yes, yes
I'll put them to bed, but they won't sleep
They're just shuffling the sheets
They toss and turn
(You can't begin to get it back)

Passing through unconscious states
When I awoke I was on
The onset of a later stage
The headlights are beacons on the highway
Highway, highway, highway
Highway, highway, highway, highway

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toadtws
04-19-2002

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My favorite song on Photo Album is hard to pin down. It's a toss-up between this one and "We Laugh Indoors".

I can't really tell what this song is about. It talks about sleeping, so it might be a dream. It has a sort of dream-like quality about it: he's talking about going somewhere on a train, then walking down a familiar street where all the store names have dirty names. (It's probably not like that in real life. :-)

And the song jumps around a lot, like dreams do. He's arriving, he's peering in a window, he's holding his girlfriend -- it's all very disjoint.

Anyway, that's my guess.

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superdeluxe
05-20-2002

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This song is like visiting your old hometown years later, and it's every bit the black-and-white rathole you remembered, everything the same. But somehow you've escaped and as you're on the highway out of town it's like post-oz kansas and color returns to your modern reality.

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MiniMe2110
05-30-2002

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This song's about coming back to an hold hometown - namely, Bellingham, Washington, which is the town where the guys met...the street names are consistant with the ones here....anyway, that's what I think.

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MiniMe2110
05-30-2002

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This song's about coming back to an hold hometown - namely, Bellingham, Washington, which is the town where the guys met...the street names are consistant with the ones here....anyway, that's what I think.

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ctettleton
06-12-2002

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this is a good driving song. it was my 4:30am song as i was driving home from school. the 14 hours were well described by this.

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thePIXIEprincess
07-10-2002

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sounds like superdeluxe hit the nail on the head. but has anyone seen the video? it seems to be about having to leave someone you love behind or something. i don't know. either way, you should check out the video. don't hit me anyone for mentioning mtv, but go to mtv.com and you can see it.

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massaar
07-12-2002

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the video is rad.

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TenaciousPiebald
07-26-2002

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The song and video are damn good. I saw them becasue Piebald claimed they were gonna air the video on 120 minutes. This video was the only good one in the 120 mins. I duno know what this song reminds me of, but it makes me think of the girl I love and how I miss her. (probably irrelevant to the songs meaning)

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bright_Eyes
09-13-2002

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this song is so beautiful. and the video... thats amazing. i accidentally taped it one day and then watched it and cried for like 20 minutes straight. heh.. i watch that video like crazy. its about this guy and agirl and how in love they are but he guy has to leave... or something like that, ah well you have to see it to understand what i mean :P

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bethanyaugust
09-28-2002

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DCFC rocks. I love this song.

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monkiebob
03-03-2003

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This song is beautiful. I love where it goes "now we all know the words were true in the sappiest songs."

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shite
03-19-2003

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i kinda think it got summit about bein drunk i dont kno y the "unconscious states" bit kinda sounds like its about being drunk. im probably totally off there tho. i love the song tho

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Title_Track
03-25-2003

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I always thought the "unconscious states" bit was about how he was unconscious (asleep) in a car, driving away on a highway.

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Title_Track
03-27-2003

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Or, sorry, wrong... I mean, it's about how he's driving through different states and it's night time and everyone's in their houses asleep (unconscious.) Wow, I totally turned that around.

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strangelittlesecret
09-23-2004

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Hearing the opening riffs of this song will always bring me back to this past summer (possibly because my favorite memory from that time was when I actually watched the band perform the song live in August). Perfect driving song.

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Thru7being7Cool
09-27-2004

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This is the anthem for seattle! How can you not think of this when drivin thru downtown. How can you not think of this walkin thru the U district. HOW CAN YOU NOT THINK OF THIS WHEN YOUR WALKING AIMLESSLY AROUND DOWNTOWN. How can you not think of it when your hanging out in lil shops near magnolia park? How can you not think of it playin catch with a football on alki? THiS song is the anthem of seattle. For me.

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fireplace
10-09-2004

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I'm pretty sure this is my favorite DCFC song. I love everything about it.

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stellaluna1125
10-14-2004

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I feel like this song is about the

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thisisfalse
10-14-2004

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I feel like this song is about lives that just happen. when this person returns home and sees all these lives where 'the people remain the same' and everyone who lives their lives basically to hear that buzzer and nothing else, he or she reflects back on his life.
in his own life he awakes on the highway. i see this as a type of analogy to becoming an adult. driving, especially on the highway is the beginning to adulthood. and now this person has found his movie script ending. yet there is this meaningless movement. and as the audience leaves this person is now reverting to the life that is unconcisouly lived.
there are now kids in the picture - which is after the audience left. they won't sleep - tossing and turning. and you can't get back to the way it used to be - like in the movies. and he is now on the onset of a later stage - unconcisously.

i don't know if this makes sense, but i definately feel that there is a negative connotation to this song.

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May_Angels
10-16-2004

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Well i am not going to go into detail about my history but the first time i herd this song was while watching the music video...and it was just crazy....if you have not seen the video check it out...it was me and my GF to a T!! So maybe that influenced how i inturpreted this song..
I see it as
the people around these two are going nowhere...it seems like nothing is moving or makeing progress..but they are moving together..in their own little world...doing their own thing seperate from everybody else..and he sees these people getting excited over little stuff that he used to be excited about as well until he saw what other great things are out there...and no one thinks that it will happen for them...nothing can be perfect but for him it is..he has a movie script ending where he comes out on top and has a perfect ending that could only be scripted (derr). With the highway lyrics for me it is me on the road to my GF cus it is long distance..i am on the highway to the thing that keeps me going...
I think it also could be thought of as the other stuff---in this world of static and slow motion he awakes from that and finds himself moving..moving away from this everyday life to something good
..and i think obviously "the sappiest songs are true" is clear but if not its like you hear these songs about love and things that make you think to yourself "my ass..or whatever i don't think so" but he finds this girl and is like...you know what it is true...it can happen..and its happen for me...ok sorry for being long

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Somalive
01-23-2005

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From the video it seemed as if a close relationship was ending from the guy going away..and whenever he was with he's with his girlfriend he feels comfortable but at the same time everything around them is so overdone.

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mike7
01-30-2005

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this is a great song....one of my favorites

the videos very good...

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kassidyismyname
02-05-2005

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The beginning of this song is definately about Bellingham- Railroad and Holly are real streets in downtown Bellingham. Holly does, in fact have many shops. lovely song.

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ex_oh_astronaut
02-13-2005

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the video for this song is absolutely amazing.
beautifully shot.
i like how you never really know where he's going or how long he'll be gone.
i don't really understand if they are breaking up or if he is just going away and they are both upset.

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skyjukeboxhero
02-16-2005

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does anyone have a link to this vid? Its not on launch or the dcfc site. I tried mtv.com, but the video never plays past the mtv promo.

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