Lyrics Help (Corduroy)
Cropduster623
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Okay I am debating my friend. I need to know what Eddie is saying here:
Is it..
1. "Take my hand, not my picture spilled my tincture."
or
2. "Take my hand, not my picture see my t-shirt."
or
3. Other
Is it..
1. "Take my hand, not my picture spilled my tincture."
or
2. "Take my hand, not my picture see my t-shirt."
or
3. Other
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- Given To Fly
I take your entrance back...can't let you roam inside my head
I don't want to take what you can give...
I would rather starve than eat your bread...
I would rather run but I can't walk...
Guess I'll lie alone just like before...
I'll take the varmint's path...oh, and I must refuse your test
Push me and I will resist...this behavior's not unique
I don't want to hear from those who know...
They can buy, but can't put on my clothes...
I don't want to limp for them to walk...
Never would have known of me before...
I don't want to be held in your debt...
I'll pay it off in blood, let I be wed...
I'm already cut up and half dead...
I'll end up alone like I began...
Everything has chains...absolutely nothing's changed
GO DEVILS
7/14/03-PNC NJ ~ 6/1/06-CAA1 NJ ~ 6/3/06-CAA2 NJ ~ 8/5/07-Lolla IL ~ 6/24/08-MSG1 ~ 6/25/08-MSG2 ~ 8/7/08-NJPAC (eV Solo)
"I'm feeling kinda righteous right now...with my Bad@$$-M0therf*ck!n'-Ukulele!"
-eV 8/7
2008: MSG 1, Hartford, Mansfield 2, Ed Solo NYC 1
2009: London (O2), Philly 1, 2, 3, & 4
2010: Hartford, Boston, MSG 1 & 2
2011: Ed Solo Hartford
2012: Philly (MIA Fest)
2013: Worcester 2, Brooklyn 1 & 2, Hartford
yeah, i was reading through it to find that line, but I couldn't. So i just posted it anyway, thinking I was just missing it.
GO DEVILS
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"I'm feeling kinda righteous right now...with my Bad@$$-M0therf*ck!n'-Ukulele!"
-eV 8/7
And I will fight "everything has chains" to my death bed.
for the least they could possibly do
What do you think it is? change?
I thought that for years.
1996: Ft Lauderdale
1998: Birmingham
2000: Charlotte, Tampa
2003: Tampa, Atlanta, Phoenix
2004: Kissimmee
2008: West Palm Beach, Bonnaroo, Columbia
2010: MSG2
2012: Music Midtown
2014: Memphis
2018: Wrigley 1, Fenway 1
2022: Nashville
2023: Ft. Worth II
2024: Baltimore
Upcoming: 2025 Hollywood, FL Night 2
Everything has changed ... absolutely nothing's changed.
And I really will physically fight anyone who argues with me. Even Ed himself ...
for the least they could possibly do
wtf why do they only have 1/2 of the song up...
Whoops...I meant changed not change. Yeah...I'll bet after seeing people mishear it for changed he probably thought "ooh...that would've been even better".
Either way it's a cool line.
The real, 100% lyric is: "everything has chains" and I think it's by FAR a superior lyric to "everything has changed, absolutely nothing's changed".
The first actually has a clear meaning and uses the image of chains to effectively communicate what Ed was trying to convey, that even though he's rich and famous he still has the problems everyone faces (ie: the CHAINS!).
The second line is just meaningless, Kurt Cobain-esque "yeah, maybe it's one thing...or maybe it's ANOTHER! Wooooo!!!" laziness. I mean, I really like Nirvana but you get what I mean.
Ed uses both live however, he alternates it at random.
I don't want to take what you can give...
I would rather starve than eat your bread...
All the things that others want for me...
Can't buy what I want because it's free...
Can't buy what I want because it's free...
Can't be what you want because I'm...
Why ain't it supposed to be just fun
Oh, to live and die, let it be done
I figure I'll be damned, all alone like I began...
It's your move now...
I thought you were a friend, but I guess I, I guess I hate you..
you meaning us?
Drop drop dropping it down...oh so gently...
Well here it comes...I touch the plane...
Turn me up...won't turn you away...
yep yep yep
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Paris 2006 - Fucking amazing
Wembley 2007
"Take my Hand, not my Picture" spelled my Tshirt
haha. but i think Spilled my tincture is the correct one.
So someone wants to fight, eh?
I disagree on both counts. I think "chains" is too straightforward and lazy to be an Ed line.
Change makes a lot more sense, and is a lot cooler, and is a lot more poetic to me.
The song, obviously, is about the trappings off fame, and how people see you differently, as something more than human, when you become famous. It is about Ed's desire to be treated like a normal human being, for cryin' out loud.
You have to read the "changed" line with the next line ... which is "take my hand, not my picture."
Here's what the line means: Everything has changed AROUND ME -- I don't work at a gas station anymore, I'm famous, I'm on the cover of Time magazine, every 15-year-old on the planet knows my name. But absolutely nothing has changed WITHIN ME -- I'm still the same guy I was when I worked anonymously at a gas station.
So what does famous Ed want from us? "take my hand, not my picture." ie, Realize I'm just a regular human being. No need to photograph me like I'm a monkey in a zoo exhibit. Just take my hand. I'm just like you.
That is much, much cooler than using the word "chains" to mean "problems" -- which has been done to death since the advent of the English language.
for the least they could possibly do
Everything has chains, absolutely nothing's changed.
Take my hand, not my picture, still my teacher.
"everything has chains ... absolutely nothing's changed"
It is also indisputably on the band's own lyric page, so end of story with the original.
For sure there are many, many versions where it's sung as "everything has changed" but I doubt that it's a conscious decision by Ed at any point ... when you're soaring along and feeling good either one just flows out beautifully, and as far as meaning goes they both work equally well; I really think it's just wherever his head's at in the moment.
Chains is by far the more poetic choice, though
As to the OP's original question, I agree the next line is:
"take my hand, not my picture. Spilled my tincture"
"life's supposed to be just fun, oh live and die let it be done". i love that lyric but i had never deciphered it before. what is the final line after that?
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I thought it was "Still my teacher"
And "To be tried, not be a judge"
Better man - the way he used to sing it 'Can't find a better man' Or can't find a better man' if you get my meaning.
and I think he does change it up as he wishes - like so many other songs - how many sit as his table tonight?
I could think of alot more examples if it weren't 2:48 and I didn''t have insomnia...or still psyched from the show.
kinakamot ang aking puwit...
me rascando pompis...
krap mijn reet...
boku no ketsuoana o kizu...
bahrosh teezy...
I disagree. Sounds like changed to me for going on 14 years now. Still does.
Are you talking about the lyrics page connected to the "songs" section of this site? Because that is known to contain a few mistakes here and there.
How so? Any sixth grader could write that line that way. Seriously, if I really thought ed wrote "chains" I would no longer be able to listen to this song anymore ... it would ruin the best (and most poetic) line on Vitalogy for me.
"Everything has changed, absolutely nothing's changed."
That's the line.
for the least they could possibly do