Lyrics for Rubber Ring as interpreted by weezerific:cutlery

Rubber Ring Lyrics
A sad fact widely known
The most impassionate song
To a lonely soul
Is so easily outgrown
But don't forget the songs
That made you smile
And the songs that made you cry
When you lay in awe
On the bedroom floor
And said : "Oh, oh, smother me Mother..."
No ...
Rubber ring, rubber ring, rubber ring, rubber ring
La ...

The passing of time
And all of its crimes
Is making me sad again
The passing of time
And all of its sickening crimes
Is making me sad again
But don't forget the songs
That made you cry
And the songs that saved your life
Yes, you're older now
And you're a clever swine
But they were the only ones who ever stood by you

The passing of time leaves empty lives
Waiting to be filled (the passing ...)
The passing of time
Leaves empty lives
Waiting to be filled
I'm here with the cause
I'm holding the torch
In the corner of your room
Can you hear me ?
And when you're dancing and laughing
And finally living
Hear my voice in your head
And think of me kindly
No ...
Rubber ring, rubber ring, rubber ring, rubber ring
La ...
No ...
Rubber ring, rubber ring, rubber ring, rubber ring

Do you
Love me like you used to ?
Oh ...
Rubber ring, rubber ring, rubber ring, rubber ring
La ...

You're clever
Everybody's clever nowadays
You're clever
Everybody's clever nowadays

You are sleeping
You do not want to believe
You are sleeping
You do not want to believe
You are sleeping
You do not want to believe
You are sleeping

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Chloe le Fay
10-05-2002

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I'm surprised no-one has commented on this song...it's amazing. The lyrics, I think, are directed towards the sort of folks who say "I've grown out of the Smiths". I dunno what the significance of the phrase "rubber ring" is, though.

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ChibiLolita
04-19-2004

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Wow, I'm shocked that only one person has commented on this song so far. It's got a really memorable lyrics and a great tune with an air of desperation to it. It's by far one of my favorite Smiths songs. I believe it's pretty straight forward...I think it was written for the purpose of chastising ex-scenesters who deny having felt strong emotions about a song/artist because they have "outgrown" it, or it's not the trendy thing to do.

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inflamedmaggot
06-23-2004

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"Rubber Ring" is what is thrown to people to save them from drowning - It basically is saying that music is our rubber ring saving us from all our problems; giving us an outlet for frustration and stress; finding someone who shares the feelings - Then people always grow up and move away from the music that helped them in there time of need; forget and ignore it, Morrissey is just asking us to always rember it because it was apart of us once - My all time fav song, no doubt about it

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inflamedmaggot
06-23-2004

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"Rubber Ring" is what is thrown to people to save them from drowning - It basically is saying that music is our rubber ring saving us from all our problems; giving us an outlet for frustration and stress; finding someone who shares the feelings - Then people always grow up and move away from the music that helped them in there time of need; forget and ignore it, Morrissey is just asking us to always rember it because it was apart of us once - My all time fav song, no doubt about it

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ladyboygrrl
09-27-2004

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yes, i agree with inflamedmaggot totally. its not designed to chastise us, its morrissey asking us to remeber something that helped us grow up. i doubt that morrissey expects his fans to be fans for life because people change. the lyric
"And when you're dancing and laughing
And finally living
Hear my voice in your head
And think of me kindly"
to me is saying that morrissey knows his fans will grow up eventually, but still he wants us to remember the smiths fondly. also, does anyone know where the sample at the end of the song (the "you are sleeping" part) comes from?

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MoP
10-08-2004

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It is sung from the perspective of the song. Its about how the song was used in peoples lives, and how people shouldn't forget songs that are important to them.

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Random Boy
02-22-2005

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To answer ladyboygrrl's question, the "you are sleeping" line, as well as "Everybody's clever nowadays" are from recordings made by a medium who claimed that they were the voices of dead people. I can't remember where I read that though, so it might be a lie, or I may possibly have dreamed it.
It's a good song and an ex of mine sent me a card quoting the "the passing of time leaves empty lives..." verse. Quite moving, but we didn't get back together.

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blindsuperhero
03-03-2005

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"Is that clever" and "Everybody's clever nowadays" is from an EMI Music for Pleasure audio recording of "The Importance Of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde (the actor spraking is John Gielgud). The "You are sleeping, you do not want to believe" is the voice of an interpreter on a record called "Breakthrough: An amazing experiment in electronic communication with the dead", apparently the dead person said "Du sovas, willst nicht glaube", which is half Swedish, half German. Another interesting note is that Morrissey overdubbed a 'lift-shaft' sound, made by him making the noise into a microphone, which can be heard just before the third chorus.

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Random Boy
03-16-2005

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So I was nearly half right.

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xpsychicheartsx
04-29-2005

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i agree it's in the percpective of the song..

...it's those songs that i'm sure as we all know, helped us grow up and deal with things..

it's the song asking, that when you grow and those problems are gone, will you still remember it? those songs become part of your life, and will you move on and leave it in the corner or will you hold them as an important part of growing up, and still recognize their importance even if it doesn't relate to you anymore.

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Boss Man
07-18-2005

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how can you stop liking the smiths when they release songs aimed at your future self?
i'm one of the people this song is pointed at because i am older now, and yes i'm a clever swine!

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draizetrain
12-12-2005

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One of Morrissey's greatest lyrical achievements. He knew he inspired the same kind of intense adulation in his listeners that he had himself experienced through his strong relationship with the New York Dolls, T. Rex and other artists, and he used this knowledge to create a song aimed directly at his most passionate fans - a plea not to forget him, even when they had achieved the happiness he believes himself incapable of achieving.

Personally, it is the little things that really get me with Rubber Ring. The samples at the end lend a menacing, sinister air to the song, and the "lift shaft" sound never fails to send chills up my spine. Morrissey's delivery of the line "do you...love me like you used to?" is simply beautiful.

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elliellellen
06-06-2006

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This song is everything to me. When i first heard it i was literally lying in awe on my bedroom floor. This song is about Morrissey's relationship with the listener, the fan, the lonely person sitting in their room clinging onto the smiths!
When i hear it, it makes feel like he is throwing me a 'rubber ring' to save me from drowning through music. Also, it sounds like he himself is crying out for help. When he says 'Can you hear me?' it almost makes me want to shout YES! And to clear his doubts of any 'fake' listeners that he may be scared of. It's also funny...and he says 'Hear my voice in your head and think of me kindly'.
It's just perfect!
It's about music...and idolising artists beyond comprehension...and as a teenage girl, that's what i do with Mozza.
It's about him and me, the listener, the fan, the lonely person sitting in their room clinging onto the smiths.
xxx

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elliellellen
06-06-2006

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This song is everything to me. When i first heard it i was literally lying in awe on my bedroom floor. This song is about Morrissey's relationship with the listener, the fan, the lonely person sitting in their room clinging onto the smiths!
When i hear it, it makes feel like he is throwing me a 'rubber ring' to save me from drowning through music. Also, it sounds like he himself is crying out for help. When he says 'Can you hear me?' it almost makes me want to shout YES! And to clear his doubts of any 'fake' listeners that he may be scared of. It's also funny...and he says 'Hear my voice in your head and think of me kindly'.
It's just perfect!
It's about music...and idolising artists beyond comprehension...and as a teenage girl, that's what i do with Mozza.
It's about him and me, the listener, the fan, the lonely person sitting in their room clinging onto the smiths.
xxx

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CAMeye
07-25-2006

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What ? How can ya not like the Smiths?
don't think i will ever outgrow it?
Did anyone?

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mr_disco2003
02-06-2007

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I'd always assumed 'rubber ring' referred to a vinyl record. Vinyl is a kind of rubber isn't it? And it's circular...

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Mila
03-17-2007

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This is one of the only songs written about the music that works. I adore everything about it. He's so simply just asking that you remember him when you no longer need him. He's not being arrogant in the slightest, he's not arguing that you will never grow tired of him. The opposite, he expects it.

I'm here with the cause
I'm holding the torch
In the corner of your room
Can you hear me ?
And when you're dancing and laughing
And finally living
Hear my voice in your head
And think of me kindly

That is all just so damn perfect it is shocking.

Having seen him live, he takes this attitude still. He seems genuinly surprised that people are continuing to support him. There is no growing out of Morrissey. I can't grow out of feeling and as long as I feel, he'll always mean the world.

Also, great Oscar Wilde quote. One of my favorites.

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kcsongbird
04-07-2007

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Yes this song is Moz speaking to his fans.. saying that though you might think you have "outgrown" his music and the sadness people sometimes associate it with it, he wants you to remember him and the songs that were there when you needed them the most.

And, of course, I will never ever grow tired of Morrissey. I can't see how anyone ever could.

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hazzamatazza
06-18-2007

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to me it goes: this guy loved this girl when she was all fucked up and he helped her or whatever, and then when she got over it, got out of the woods she was to ashamed of her life to let let him back in again. v sad :(

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rubberring
07-01-2007

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when i realized the meaning of this song i've said to myself that i won't listen to it anymore until i can manage to improve my life. after a few years without this song - it's one of my favourite of them - my life changed that much that i thought it's time to play "rubber ring"... but i'm still listening to the smiths. i can't forget this songs and i still love them...

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forgotten412
08-27-2007

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It's been said well enough already up there^ but whenever I think of the Smiths, I think of this song. Lying on the bedroom floor in awe is a pretty apt description of me when I was younger :). He sums up that thing of having "outgrown" certain music (whether to sound 'grown up' or 'fashionable' or 'hip' or 'clever' I don't know), and to not forget that those songs did save your life. I love the line, "and when you're dancing and laughing and finally living," it's a bit like how I assess my life- this 'future self' doesn't ever materialise it seems. I love this song.

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SoundgardeNirvana
09-27-2007

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condoms

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strummer_2007
12-01-2007

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I think the "rubber ring" is used by morrissey to represent both the vinyls records that contain the songs he's singing about as well as the lifesaving device. It would make sense since they were "the songs that saved your life."

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Warpedmizz
01-23-2008

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To me I know if it weren't for certain songs in my life I wouldn't be here, theres some music that took me through tough times and I knew I wouldn't be here if it weren't for those songs, these songs that giving me such a feeling and meaning of hope, and I love it how rubber ring is really about that I have never come across a song quite like that and its truely amazing and it really got me thinking and I started listening to this music that was my rubber ring and I can really feel it. I can really relate to this song, this song is incredible and unique and I absolutley love it.

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rusholmeruffian
02-09-2008

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what an amazing song, oh how i love the smiths

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