Lyrics That Still Make No Sense to You

[Overjoyyed]

"Wake up the house is on fire, And the cats caught in the dryer"

Dead Beat Holiday - Warning

Billie's cat is stuck inside a dryer ( as in for clothes)

It's Just a fucked up kind of day

[MerveLovesGD]

I went to a whore he said my lifes a bore so quit my whining cause in bringing her down" I still dont get why it goes from being a he to a she...

I went to a whore. HE said my life is a bore. so quit my whining cause it's bringing HER down.

maybe he was too high while they were recording.

[Guest Trotsky]

I went to a whore. HE said my life is a bore. so quit my whining cause it's bringing HER down.

maybe he was too high while they were recording.

Maybe it's a reference to the song of Cheap Trick - He's A Whore.

[The Grouch is Tracy]

I went to a whore. HE said my life is a bore. so quit my whining cause it's bringing HER down.

maybe he was too high while they were recording.

Billie has said that he intentionally wanted to convey ambiguity with this lyric.

[Spike]

I always thought the implication was it was just a male whore, who was referring to a female in BJ's life. As in, like the whore is telling Billie that his life is boring, and that's affecting Adie.

[The Grouch is Tracy]

I always thought the implication was it was just a male whore, who was referring to a female in BJ's life. As in, like the whore is telling Billie that his life is boring, and that's affecting Adie.

Apparently, and of course I forget where I read it, it is supposed to be a reference to bisexuality.

[Gwen Stacy]

This from Viva La Gloria:

"You made your bed in salad days amongst the ruins"

Salad? What?

[The Grouch is Tracy]

This from Viva La Gloria:

"You made your bed in salad days amongst the ruins"

Salad? What?

This one has been discussed a few pages back, but "salad days" refers to an earlier time when things were good.

[Daughter.of.Rage.and.Love]

Hah, I like the explanation of the line in Basket Case that it's intentional to convey ambiguity much more than my own explanation. I just thought that he went to a whore who said his life's a bore and then it went back to the shrink where the storyteller had to stop whining because it's bringing the shrink down But I like ambiguity and intentional confusion much better!

I think that's the meaning he's trying to convey, but the Grammar Nazi inside me would be happier with one nation from which I stand alone, but that wouldn't fit the melody!

Isn't "a nation thereof which I stand alone" grammatically correct?
Actual question.

[The Disappearing Boy]

Hah, I like the explanation of the line in Basket Case that it's intentional to convey ambiguity much more than my own explanation. I just thought that he went to a whore who said his life's a bore and then it went back to the shrink where the storyteller had to stop whining because it's bringing the shrink down But I like ambiguity and intentional confusion much better!

Isn't "a nation thereof which I stand alone" grammatically correct?

Actual question.

I don't think so. You can stand alone from something, but not of something. A nation from which I stand alone is right, but it still sounds a bit weird. Apart would be a better word than alone. The there doesn't make any sense to me.

[Spike]

Isn't "a nation thereof which I stand alone" grammatically correct?

Actual question.

Yeah, it is. "Underdog" throws it out a bit but it still makes sense once you get your head around it. Only took me 9 years to work it out

[Bastard of 1969]

This from Viva La Gloria:

"You made your bed in salad days amongst the ruins"

Salad? What?

As there was said in previous days, "salad days" is expression for glory days.

[green day is]

As there was said in previous days, "salad days" is expression for glory days.

[UNICORN VOMIT]

I really take offence to "N" word. sorry.

[green day is]

I really take offence to "N" word. sorry.

I don't care though. So I guess it isn't exactly a win-win, but you might take solace in the fact that not only did I not create the picture, but that it in fact has no racial connotations whatsoever beyond that word! Hooray!

[UNICORN VOMIT]

No problem - that's why I said sorry.

[Bastard of 1969]

What the fuck are you doing?

[Todd]

Don't remember those lyrics in a Green Day song

[Bastard of 1969]

Don't remember those lyrics in a Green Day song

Wo..which lyrics?

[Todd]

Wo..which lyrics?

"Oh shit nigger, I've got some scattered pictures on my floor"

"Oh shit nigger, I fucked up again it's all my fault"

"Oh shit nigger, why did you have to leave so soon"

[Bastard of 1969]

"Oh shit nigger, I've got some scattered pictures on my floor"

"Oh shit nigger, I fucked up again it's all my fault"

"Oh shit nigger, why did you have to leave so soon"

Oh shit nigger, welcome to the new kind of tension.

Oh shit nigger, I remember the face but I can't recall the name.

Oh shit nigger, did you wake up late one day?

[Hermione]

Yeah, let's end that now.

[Anaïs.]

Bringin' it back—does anyone have any idea what kind of theme Billie could possibly have been trying to convey with the "red lights flash" line throughout the Trilogy? (And on the "That's All Right" cover, for that matter.)

[Spike]

Bringin' it back—does anyone have any idea what kind of theme Billie could possibly have been trying to convey with the "red lights flash" line throughout the Trilogy? (And on the "That's All Right" cover, for that matter.)

Simple prostitute reference in line with the debauchery theme of Dos, I would have thought. *cringe*

[The Disappearing Boy]

Bringin' it back—does anyone have any idea what kind of theme Billie could possibly have been trying to convey with the "red lights flash" line throughout the Trilogy? (And on the "That's All Right" cover, for that matter.)

You're supposed to 'stop when the red lights (traffic lights) flash' (not that traffic lights flash) coz it's the law, but by saying DON'T stop when the red lights flash, he's telling you to go all crazy and be reckless, in line with the theme of dos.

And yes, I did just pull that out of my arse!