The Hives – Die, All Right!

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  General Comment:Jesus this song is awesome. It is just so catchy and they are so good at the music they do. Ahh! I love it!

  Flag arlexahnderuhon March 17, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:I agree with megan, it's all about starting a business career after your studies. You start making big bucks but feel like shit because you hate what you are doing and start dying slowly in a way.
  
  "cause i found the backdoor of teenage hell" it refers to the fact by beginning to work you think you're gonna start something newly interesting but one hell just leads to another (worse in fact).
  
  and my favorite: "Too messed up to sit and settle down.
  Too messed up to even mess around.
  Thats why your smiling Mr CEO."
  
  This is brilliant. It's really describing how between two chairs you are when you start giving up most of the fun you had before to make money and conforming to what the company (and mr CEO) expects from you: in a way you're pushed to settle down by your job and you don't really want to because you are still young, but, on the other hand, you can't have fun anymore like you used to because you changed.
  
  Most business graduates who start to work while they are still very young probably know what i mean ;)

  Flag HarryRagon September 19, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:this isn't about selling your body for science...it's about the man and the little guy..like a lot of hives songs....selling yourself to a company, you work hard, slowly loose your soul, you don't know how much of yourself you can sell and stay alive....but you cant complain because you have money now and your not dead yet and your willing to see how far you can push it for the sake of money.....long story short: you need money, sometimes you going to loose yourself to get it...

  Flag megan1986on February 25, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:my favourite song from my favourite band

  Flag samboo1on January 02, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:"Sold my body to the company so I got the money now away I go and I say thank you Mr CEO.
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  Yeah! They gave me a paper and I went ahead and penned it and I say thank you Mr CEO."
  
  Ok, from this I gather that he's linked to a company from where he get's his money.
  
  The company is pretty happy with him as well, even though he's is a mess, because:
  
  "...thats why your smiling Mr CEO."
  
  But what I don't get is why he's messed up. Is it because the company is doing it to him (drugs or experiments)? Or because of the destructive life (drugs, partying, etc.) he leads, which is afforded by the money that he gets from the company?
  
  Maybe it's a bit of both, but I'm still puzzled by what the company is actually doing to him. I mean, what up with:
  "I had a body and men with knives wanted to lend it."
  ???
  
  But most importantly: Absolutely teriffic song!!!

  Flag Koerokon October 26, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:um, i'm not sure why everyone thinks this song is about pharmaceutical testing.
  
  i think it's just about selling your soul for money, particularly in show business. you sign your name/life away for cash...
  
  "found the backdoor out of teenage hell"
  
  i think it refers to just becoming rich. a lot of musicians aspire to be rich from a tender age.
  
  maybe they are even referring to themselves or anyone else in the business that may be selling out for cash. there's a teeny bit of regret, or guilt... "except the tics won't go away." but in the end they push it away, brush it off, "i'm gonna die alright!"

  Flag fuzzyjellybeanon April 17, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:Yeah! Selling yourself for money ... and it is The Hives way to do it in the extremist way possible, haha.
  
  I love it ... i'll might as well die.

  Flag moodylupinon January 25, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:i'm thinking.. scientific testing
  you know how some like drug companies will pay you for them to test shit on you
  but you have to sign shit sothat they're not held responsible.. y'know, if you die
  
  yeah, that's what this is
  
  [sorry if someone already said that, i can't be arsed reading tonight]

  Flag im_no_supermanon December 30, 2006   Link

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  General Comment:Forgot to add, this might be the best Hives song so far.

  Flag Croove55on September 22, 2006   Link

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  General Comment:The song is about the character selling his body for experimental drug testing to get some quick cash. The chorus is one of the best parts, explaining how his life (teenage hell) is something he just wants to find a way out of (the back door, in this case risking his life in drug testing). As long as he can get quick money and trust the company to try even more experimental drugs on him to counteract the first one, then he's fine with it.

  Flag Croove55on September 22, 2006   Link

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