You're really not supposed to chase poison
With four full-on Red Bulls!
I've never done crystal meth but I imagine this is what it
Feels like Say Anything (Ft. Chauntelle DuPree) – Kall Me Kubrick
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Despite the fact, according to the warning on the can, you should not mix Red Bull with alcohol consumption, numerous cocktails include the ubiquitous energy drink. And… there are reasons you’re not supposed to mix the two! Reasons!
When you surrender your form to the digital swarm
My son, you wear the swastika
When you piss in her mouth in your Malibu house
My boy, you wear the swastika
You eat the young and wear the swastika
You rape the world and wear the swastika
You suck yourself and wear the swastika
Swastika, swastika!
Surrender your form to the digital swarm
My God, you wear the swastika
When you piss in her mouth in your Malibu house
My God, you wear the swastika
You eat the young and wear the swastika
You rape the world and wear the swastika
You suck yourself and wear the swastika
Swastika, swastika! Say Anything (Ft. Chauntelle DuPree) – Kall Me Kubrick
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One of the more aggressive performances in recent memory of Say Anything, this bridge features Max not only singing, but screaming, and recalls 2004’s “An Orgy of Critics” for its intensity.
The swastika is one of the most universal religious symbols in world culture, but was famously appropriated by the Nazis in WWII. Represented by the swastika, the Nazis attempted to conquer the world (succeeding in conquering Europe for a time) with their fascist regime and killed over 11 million people in the Holocaust.
Holocaust metaphors are often pretty dicey, but, hey—Bemis is Jewish, so it’s sorta a free pass. He compares the conformist and lecherous ethos pervasive in many elements of modern society to the fascist mindset of the Nazis.
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From “Silhouette”, on the 2003 album The Artist in the Ambulance.
Your eyes followed me here.
Your eyes, sifting my soul.
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Max and Sherri’s daughter, Lucy, is currently a baby, so this line would indicate that these emotional walls were in place for Sherri’s entire life.
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“Shelter” is the closing song of Eisley’s 2013 album, Currents. It is sung by Stacy Dupree-King, Max’s sister-in-law.
But now he's dead Say Anything (Ft. Sherri DuPree-Bemis) – The Shape of Love To Come
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Cthulhu is an Elder God from the works of H.P. Lovecraft, depicted as an indescribably ancient and horrible tentacled beast beneath the seas, waiting to rise again.
#Read Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu” on Poetry Genius!
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Possibly a reference to the song “The Stephen Hawking” (off Say Anything’s 2012 album Anarchy, My Dear) in which Bemis sings, “If you’re the sun, I’m a black hole.”
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A reference to “Belt”, the opening track from Say Anything’s official debut record, …Is A Real Boy.
Naked but that belt around my waste, it was my father’s once, I still see his face.
In “Belt,” the belt is symbolic of rebellion and creativity as an instigative, iconoclastic force.
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A reference to the Holocaust, in which six million European Jews were put to death by the oppressive Nazi regime. This theme comes up during the songs “Hebrews” and “Alive With The Glory Of Love” as well.
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Adam Siska, touring bassist for Say Anything, used to play in The Academy Is with frontman William Beckett.
