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I think you caught me on the downslide, downturn
I was busy writing with a pen and paper thin dream
And all your plastic people with plastic hearts and smiles
They had the worst intentions all along after all
The royal castle holds the mellow drama kings and queens
And all their dazzling children; they're so regal (clean)
With pristine fingertips they wash behind their ears
And let their hair down 'til the audiences leave
I'm definitely shaking
The silence isn't breaking
Back-washed and stranded memories
Of something I thought could be
I was busy writing with a pen and paper thin dream
And all your plastic people with plastic hearts and smiles
They had the worst intentions all along after all
The royal castle holds the mellow drama kings and queens
And all their dazzling children; they're so regal (clean)
With pristine fingertips they wash behind their ears
And let their hair down 'til the audiences leave
I'm definitely shaking
The silence isn't breaking
Back-washed and stranded memories
Of something I thought could be
Lyrics submitted by weezerific:cutlery
Track duration: 03:49
"Pictures in an Exhibition" as written by Benjamin Gibbard
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing
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But this song to me is beautiful, as others have said, it figuratively ploys out the fakeness of people, and how they 'let down their hair', until the 'audience' leaves.
Also for the person that said the line "I'm definatly shaking' may be sarcasm, something to support this is on the chords version, on how he always let's out a cheerful 'WOO!' after every time the lines repeated.
I've related to this song for sad times and happy times, and that's just the beauty of open-interpretation.
"melodrama kings and queens"
not
"mellow drama kings and queens"
this is just what it makes me think of, if u can understand it.
if u dont understand this, it is just an awesome song :)
Like i said; probably unrelated, but interesting. If you want to read the poem here it is: bukowski.net/vault/…
But yeah i mean its about fake stuck up rich people .
I’m definitely shaking
The silence isn’t breaking
Backwashed and stranded memories
Of something I thought could be
Can noone else sense the sarcasm? His definetly shaking in his boots? He doesn't really care about the silence between him and a signficant other, and what could have been... or does he? You decide.
It is that stanza that I just referred to that really tells me what the song is about. The rest of the song quite clearly describes the fakeness of this world. For me, that is what the significant other was to him, everything that happened between them or anything they experienced seems all fake in hindsight. Its a reflection of looking back on a relationship and realising that everything that was said or done, was maybe just a sham.
Interpret it how you want.
This song is bliss.