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Shine the headlight
Straight into my eyes
Like the roadkill
I'm paralyzed
You see through my disguise
At the drive in
Double feature
Pull the lever
Break the fever
And say your last goodbyes
Since I was born I started to decay
Now nothing ever ever goes my way
One fluid gesture
Like stepping back in time
Trapped in amber
Petrified
And still not satisfied
Airs and social graces
Elocution so divine
I'll stick to my needle
And my favorite waste of time
Both spineless and sublime
Since I was born I started to decay
Now nothing ever ever goes my way
Straight into my eyes
Like the roadkill
I'm paralyzed
You see through my disguise
At the drive in
Double feature
Pull the lever
Break the fever
And say your last goodbyes
Since I was born I started to decay
Now nothing ever ever goes my way
One fluid gesture
Like stepping back in time
Trapped in amber
Petrified
And still not satisfied
Airs and social graces
Elocution so divine
I'll stick to my needle
And my favorite waste of time
Both spineless and sublime
Since I was born I started to decay
Now nothing ever ever goes my way
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Just sums up everything you feel growing up......trying to fit in, wanting to be cool. You're young, you got your whole life ahead of you........you want things to work out, but sometimes they just DON'T.
And all the disapointments in life just slowly chip away at you.
Like the roadkill, I'm paralysed.
I think it has some self-distructive meaning. When you shine straingt into the eyes of an animal on the road the animal doesnt actually see anything, its becomes kind of blind, thats why it stops in the middle of the road like paralysed. So the singer kind of povokes the world to "kill" him. and he knows that everyone sees it through his disguise that he is helpless like a roadkill (like all actually teens are).
Since I was born I started to decay.
Now nothing ever ever goes my way
I like to interpret it like "scince I was born i started to get more and more decadent, spoit, scinical. thats why i dont care about anything now"
Classic Placebo.
"I'll stick to my needle, and my favourite waste of time,
both spineless and sublime."
Is actually referring to the needle of a record player and his favourite waste of time is staying at home listening to music.
Also its been written in such a way to also invoke images of drug taking. Therefore invoking images of lazing around in a daze listening to music.
I love both versions, it doesn't matter where in life you are, one of them always fits in. Right now I'm at the piano, the hopelessly hopeless, but I bet the upbeat one is coming.