FreeRayLiotta wrote:So after about 500 listens. The beginning lyrics sound like Nick is crying about some bitch again.. and the drink another drink line certainly recalls Whiskey and Wine - but it isn't about alcohol. My take on this song is somewhat layered. On one hand I feel like it is about the creative instinct. Being driven constant to create something new. To take it higher. To create, satisfy the need and then be propelled to create again. Each time striving for something new and better.
It is also about us being victims and at the same time proponents of the consumer society. Sort of a Louis C.K. influence. We have all this amazing shit and we are still not satisfied. Will we ever be fully content or does that mean we are dead? And we are driven to consume.. to want what is new and better all the time. Darwinism dialed down to an intense time scale. Show me a beautiful woman and I'll show you a guy thats tired of fucking her. And society drives that. The advertising blah blah etc. On and on.
The lyrics would be worse if they were like Rock On. Calling out someone else. I'm cruising, don't even care about what i'm losing - more powerful than saying you and you're. Christ.. think about the Little Brother lyrics. Firewater is about Nick, but he talks about it like its someone else. Refreshing to have them talk about the struggle in the first person rather than acting like they are above to not influence fans?
Best album roll out ever. Maybe best single since the radio died and they finally realized that. First total indie record and Ralston as a fan/friend/producer instead of some shithead with future royalties in mind.
Just clap your hands, just clap your hands to the beat!!!!!!! That shit is over. I am super excited.. and am willing to let myself go into that feeling and not worrying about being let down. I mean... the fucking intro guitar and bass and drum interplay is insane. What I always wanted. 311 to show off how fucking tight and good they are as musicians without some stupid badadopdotdadeeda bullshit. We'll see, but hey, we've hung in this long. We are due for the record we have all been ruminating about for a decade now.
FIVE OF EVERYTHING
No matter what I try there’s no room in my mind
No way to go round that, that’s just the way it is must I remind
I don’t pick up the phone but you still try to call
There’s nothing left to say you’ve already gotta know we’ve said it all
The story never ends, in search of something
But once we arrive it all starts again
Reaching for higher ground, the river’s rising
It keeps on flowing forever no matter what we have found
Sometimes it seems insane
To just keep pressing on
As if it will put out the flame
But still the thirst remains
Drink another drink
And somehow I still feel the same
Step off, head out, take flight, and just run
Got five of everything but I just need one
My brain telling me what I want, I need
Got five of everything but I still proceed
Help me fill up this hole
It’s gaping and out of control
It feels like I’m losing touch and it’s taking it’s toll
When this wall isn’t moving
State of things not improving
And no satisfaction in the distraction of the day
Sometimes it seems insane
To just keep pressing on
As if it will put out the flame
But still the thirst remains
Drink another drink
And somehow I still feel the same
Step off, head out, take flight, and just run
Got five of everything but I just need one
My brain telling me what I want, I need
Got five of everything but I still proceed
Living in this culture can be a drag
It’s just a commercial what we have
A one track mind we grab, grab, grab
We’re past being crazy, call us mad
Gone is the golden egg and the goose
And the bullshit of all hell breaking loose
We gotta hit the boost
Sip on the thick juice
Disregard the bad cards
And wake the truth
Step off, head out, take flight, and just run
Got five of everything but I just need one
My brain telling me what I want, I need
Got five of everything but I still proceed
The story never ends, in search of something
But once we arrive it all starts again
Reaching for higher ground, the river’s rising
It keeps on flowing forever
Ok. So heres my take. Its a fable told in the first person perspective. Its about a guy who ruined a relationship through impulsuve and excesive behavior while also acting as a metaphor for our sociteies tendency towards those same issues, especially through comercialism. He(we) have everything we need, but corporate comercialism sells(tells) us through subliminal advertising that we want things we really dont need will make us happy. In the songs relationship it references excess of alcohol(hence the "drink another drink" line) but on a societal level could also be a reference to drinking "the kool-aide" so to speak. Think of it this way...if it were a movie it would be Romero's Dawn of the Dead.
Or at least thats my take on the lyrics anyway. At least after the first 5 listens or so.
"To Mean People, I Say Choke On It, Gagging All The Way. May You Remember The Texture For Days"
Everything you do, it comes back to you, whatever it may be
To just know hate, well that's so sad. What a life, strife
There's much power in anger, but love's a bigger banger
It's a waste to be a hater
All the angst shit is just cheesy
Be positive
Take on the Love and the good Karma
Suckas look up to thugs, they like the attitude... the harder they act just to hide their insecurity
The only thing you always try to be is hard, because you're scared that someone might pull your card
I don’t dis people, I dis ideas. And when I say dis I mean disagree
