Lyrics for Amputations as interpreted by weezerific:cutlery

Amputations Lyrics
And if it was just how you wanted
You'd be glued to his bones and his brainstem
And changing your image and attitudes
Won't bring him back into your bedroom

Amputating as he's waiting
Amputating
He's unresponsive because you're irresponsible

Little swinger, your bottle is thinking too much
Because you're aiming to please way off target
And I'll tell you what you must already know
Of amputating that too slow

Amputating as he's waiting
Amputating
He's unresponsive because you're irresponsible

Amputating as he's waiting
Amputating
He's unresponsive because you're irresponsible

Amputating as he's waiting
Amputating
He's unresponsive because you're irresponsible

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lindyswingster
09-11-2002

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anyone know what the voice is saying in the background? i can't quite make it out...

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Eli_Cash
09-26-2002

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I believe it is an exerpt from speech on why communism won't work-"If we seem nutty to you and if we seem funny to you, just remember the mighty oak tree was once a nut just like me" in the beginning and "I pray to god that one day he will grant me the power to reach out to people and give instant relief, cause you don't have instant relief. We been lied to so many times, that your suspicious mind, and when the right thing comes along, you don't believe in it. In this modern day and age we have instant coffee and instant tea--it is the reason we will never have communism in this country--it is because we will never believe in ourselves we will only listen to the mass majority. If anybodies making fun of you or criticizing you, you know you're on the right track" there's some pretty crazt sounding shit in their, but I basically agree with all of it. It's funny that I declared myself an atheist, found Death Cab, and declared myself pretty much a socialist closley after. I don't know if the band are any of these things, but maybe that's just another aspect that attracted me to this band.

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lindyswingster
10-14-2002

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Interesting, Eli, thanks for posting that. I hadn't thought of Death Cab being socialist...do you think their other songs are also socialist?

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ohpioneer
03-18-2003

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no, it doesnt say anything about communism. its a guy talking about "instant belief." im not about to type the whole thing out but its about how if you dont have instant belief youll always feel that your being lied to.

listen to it again. *tips her hat*

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Cheesepickle
04-11-2003

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ohpioneer.... i do believe eli is right though, it's a fairly famous speech on communism (but also he touches on other things like instant belief) i forget who the speaker is, but it's pretty famous.... good tune. Nice harmonics int he chorus on that guitar!

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inner ear itch
05-10-2003

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Are you kidding? The line is "that's the reason we never become anything," not "that's the reason we will never have communism in this country." Wow.

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fraeulein
05-17-2004

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ok i think i have it transcripted:

"i pray to god, that one day he'll give me power to reach out my hand [to all of you] and give you instant relief...but you dont have instant relief...you've been hooked, you've been croooked, you've been lied to so many times, you're suspicious, mind you, and when the right thing comes along you dont' know its there...when i'm here knocking on the front door, you're out the back door looking for four leaf clovers, and when you find it you think someone is playing you [for a] dirty fool...what's the angle?...you look for an excuse...in this modern day in age we have instant coffee, instant tea, and instant disbelief...that's the reason we never become anything, its because we'll never believe in ourselves, we'll always listen to the mass majority....when everybody's making fun of you and criticizing, you know you're on the right track, cos most of the people ain't got it....."

i'd love to know WHO is doing the talking there...for awhile i thought it was jimmy carter but after listening to his memoirs on tape (long car ride with mother...) i don't anymore. just a thought. i thought it was in the liner notes but my case is in storage...

a lot of the lyrics on this cd are sort of cryptic, and i know that ben usually/sometimes writes fiction for lyrics and also writes in a lot of metaphors...but i guess this song is a sort of "get over him" song (certainly pertains to my recent life) about this person going to some great lengths (glueing to bones and brainstem...classic) to try to win this guy back, and i think that the recorded sampleis being used by the "I" in this song to say to the "you" that he's really the right person for her, and he only wishes he could give her the confidence to see herself without this other person that she's trying to get back with... he wishes he could get the her to see this, stick up for herself, realize that becoming the what she thinks the "ex-type person" wants isnt going to get her anywhere, etc, and go with him...i think that fake frowns is an extension of this same relationship situation, where it all sort of falls apart (same three characters, he's now proposed to drive his point home, doesn't work, she flees, etc)...makes a creat crecendo for the album...i love these two songs, fake frowns sort of more, but the use of the recorded sample as a bridge is a pretty cool way of joining the songs together.

umm i guess that's it

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fraeulein
05-17-2004

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aparently the quote is from a motivational record entitled "you can better your best" recorded by a man named glenn w. turner. this was posted on some message board on the barsuk website by chris walla, so yeah...

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x__eleven
06-17-2004

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The speach is like lyrics, it's something he related to. He's looking at this relationship of a girl he cares about and the guy she's with. And she can do better but she doesn't. And instead of going to him, she's looking away from him with ideals of finding someone who's different, who she can trust; when he's standing right there--probably her closest friend.

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kassidyismyname
02-04-2005

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This Song Is about Kelly Huckaby, a MALE friend of Ben, and his wife, or at least that's what i've heard from friends of death cab.

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picturefalling
02-07-2005

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how official are these lyrics? are we sure the line is not: "wont bring HIM back into your bedroom"
also i think its definetely instant belief. it sounds like hes promoting a faith in god.

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dogsbarkatnight
02-07-2005

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Ben said at a DCFC show in November 2004, "this song was written about two people I didn't think ever had a chance..they've been married for five years."

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ClickForth
05-02-2005

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Yep, this song and Song For Kelly Huckaby are about him, he works at the Red Apple in Bellingham, met him actually.

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veronica11
02-07-2006

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But don't you see?!?!?! any love song or any song about God can easily be flip flopped, it is all what it means to YOU! what you hear when you hear it! When you listen to a song, you do not always have to listen to it and relate it to the same thing the writer did. When you look at a painting or some great work of art, and it makes you feel something, you don't care if that is not what the artist felt, because what you feel is what it means to YOU!

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frenchnerd
04-19-2006

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I think that this song and Fake Frowns are related because if you listen starting at about 4:38, you start to hear the drumline of Fake Frowns. Also, Fake Frowns seems to be sort of similar to Amputations and Song for Kelly Huckaby, which are of course about Kelly Huckaby.

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tbsbrandnewdcjew
06-15-2006

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i get from this song that its about when you want something to happen so bad that you change yourself and also i think its about obsession.

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finbar1
08-07-2006

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I think this song is saying that we get so cought up in our failed desires that we become stubborn and refuse to accept that its over. And that we even become irresponsible in our quest to fullfill our desires by neglecting who we are through changing.

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the_riv1977
10-10-2006

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I always thought the speech in the song was a sort of sermon... I heard it actually has nothing to do with the rest of the song it just sounded good when they put it together. They do that in President of What as well.

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JennaMaria
02-19-2007

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This is a song about my relationship with a guy. A guy I fell for, blindly. I walked into a friends-with-benefits situation, and fell so deeply in love with that I am still dealing with his disinterest and blahse affections in order to keep him, in some symbolance.

And no matter how I change my appearance, no matter how many different angles I come at him in conversation - nothing will win him.

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sweatersdotcom
05-03-2007

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Wow I just listened to the Something About Airplanes version of this... the You Can Play These Chords version is so much better. But now I understand what you guys were talking about with the speech, the original only has about half of the speech in it.

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anonymous3333
05-15-2007

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shit. this song is so true.

its saying how when you fall for a guy, or if you are trying to get a guy back, you will do anything to win him over. you change your ideas, your interests, your image, your opinions, your values.

and it doesnt do shit. "He's unresponsive because you're irresponsible."

i know this from personal experience

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torilovesmusic
07-14-2007

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I took it a completely different way.

I interpreted it as a drunk driving accident.

"And changing your image and attitudes
Won't bring him back into your bedroom"
Is like saying, no matter how much you change your lifestyle, you can't bring him back to life after you've made this mistake.


"He's unresponsive 'cause you're irresponsible."
He can't breathe anymore, because you've killed him.

"...your bottle is thinking too much" I interpreted literally for a beer bottle.

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au_revoir_vanessa
01-17-2008

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torilovesmusic, i SOO interpreted it the same way! before coming to this page, i listened to it, and thought, this is definitely about a drunk driving accident, driver survived but the other person didnt.

ah well:)

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Kmidd
01-20-2008

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I did a search for this speach when I first bought the album years ago and never found it, thanks for the transcript fraeulein. This song and the speech have never been one in the same with me, I would always turn the volume up so during the bridge so I could hear the speech. To me, the speech is about self reliance and believing in yourself against all odds and how difficult that is with our coddling, politically correct, apathetic society.

Interestingly enough, IF Glen W. Turner was the guy that gave this speech, an interesting fact about him is that he was arrested and sentenced to 7 years in prison for running a pyramid scheme back in 1987 (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE0D71739F931A1575BC0A961948260). He's a big motivational speaker now, though. You think that takes away from his message? You think that has anything to do with the song? Hypocrisy?

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Sweet_Amity
02-02-2008

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torilovesmusic, before I looked at the lyrics I always thought that thats what the song was about too. And then I read the lyrics and I'm like: "Oh, maybe not." But then I read what you wrote and I completely agree (again, lol).

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