Can we be honest about the song Fatal?

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  • RYEzupSF
    RYEzupSF Posts: 6,003
    Shawshank wrote:
    I can't stop listening to the beneroya version of this. Sooo good.

    One of my favorite songs and my favorite versions. And like someone else said, i can never listen to it just once.
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  • En La Clandestinidad
    En La Clandestinidad Telford, PA by way of Kansas City, MO and Milwaukee, WI, Phoenix, AZ and East Greenbush, NY Posts: 3,694
    Easily one of my top songs they've ever done. The Benaroya version is stunning! (As they all are)
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  • staceycurci
    staceycurci Posts: 97
    left the porch wrote:
    LOVE THIS SONG! I still can't believe it was left off Binaural. Supposedly it was the producer's (Tchad Blake)favorite song from the whole bunch. I also remember hearing Stone wrote most of the lyrics as well as the music. And that the original lyrics were "The answer's in Plato," referring to the philosopher. Ed suggested "The answer's are Fatal."

    Got to see it live in Buffalo 2010; that was a BIG check off the list! :D

    I wake up and wait up
    Yes I was in buffalo and Ed fucked up the beginning an had to start over :lol:
  • Smellyman
    Smellyman Asia Posts: 4,528
    and maybe jsut as good

    otherside

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCDyZxZ3ViA
  • GoodbyeForNow
    GoodbyeForNow Vancouver Posts: 120
    RYEzupSF wrote:
    Shawshank wrote:
    I can't stop listening to the beneroya version of this. Sooo good.

    One of my favorite songs and my favorite versions. And like someone else said, i can never listen to it just once.

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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 15,011
    I love this song it s beautiful. And as the post above says otherside and hold on prob my favourites full stop


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  • imissyoualways
    imissyoualways Posts: 353
    Have always loved fatal. very sad but beautiful song. maybe i've interpreted too literally but i've always thought it is about a women's realization she is stuck in a rut and sees no clear out.. just my point of view. would love to hear others'.. :)
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  • SomethingCreative
    SomethingCreative Kazoo, MI Posts: 3,414
    imissyoualways wrote:
    Have always loved fatal. very sad but beautiful song. maybe i've interpreted too literally but i've always thought it is about a women's realization she is stuck in a rut and sees no clear out.. just my point of view. would love to hear others'.. :)


    word, I came to a similar conclusion...to me it always sounded like one end of a relationship losing interest and the remaining end coming to terms with it.


    thanks to who posted that video for otherside...I'd completely forgotten that they'd played that
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  • PillowPants
    PillowPants Posts: 4,877
    i wake up then bake up!
  • Stove
    Stove Posts: 374
    Seasonally (Yes, I favor some PJ stuff depending on season, time of day & mood) I always think of this song in the fall, because I got Lost Dogs in the fall of 07. I remember the exact moment I first put it on my cd player and how amazed I was. Stone does a similar chord change on "Unhand Me" on Bayleaf, it's a completely different song but he really tapped into something beautiful and mysterious. Would LOVE to hear this live.
  • Tboz51
    Tboz51 Posts: 2,808
    Stove wrote:
    Seasonally (Yes, I favor some PJ stuff depending on season, time of day & mood) I always think of this song in the fall, because I got Lost Dogs in the fall of 07. I remember the exact moment I first put it on my cd player and how amazed I was. Stone does a similar chord change on "Unhand Me" on Bayleaf, it's a completely different song but he really tapped into something beautiful and mysterious. Would LOVE to hear this live.

    I was gonna mention the chord change thing but I figured no one would've gotten the reference. I try to dumb down my posts to insure it gets thru to the masses.

    Just kidding I'm retarded too.
    :crazy:

    Good call on what you posted... I think this is a perfect rainy Seattle song.
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  • bradsaid
    bradsaid Posts: 11
    wow the interpretations on this song are all over the place. A couple people said that it is about Columbine, can anyone point me to where they heard that?

    to me it's about an ex girlfriend/wife who now has a new man, and in a way coming to terms with it any moving on

    'how good is he? how warm are his eyes'
    'did he arrive too late'
    'how good is he? How warm is his heart or ego?'

    i connect with these lyrics as my genuine concern for the well being of a girl I once loved - her new partner, is he a good person? can i trust him with her?

    'when anger's in fashion'
    'i wake up and wait up'
    'the answers are fatal'

    waking up at night.. sleepless.. where is she, what is she doing? waiting for the answers, knowing them, can be so painful - almost fatal

    'is he truly out of sight, is he truly out of mind?

    and finally , can I put the thought of you and him behind me?



  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,296
    edited May 2016
    left the porch said:

    LOVE THIS SONG! I still can't believe it was left off Binaural. Supposedly it was the producer's (Tchad Blake)favorite song from the whole bunch. I also remember hearing Stone wrote most of the lyrics as well as the music. And that the original lyrics were "The answer's in Plato," referring to the philosopher. Ed suggested "The answer's are Fatal."



    Got to see it live in Buffalo 2010; that was a BIG check off the list! :D



    I wake up and wait up

    I felt bad for Tchad. I feel like the band sabotaged that record with their song choices and he seems to get a bad rap for not working out with the fast songs.

    I was shocked and ecstatic to hear Fatal in Leeds.
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  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    Poncier said:

    The answer's in play-doh.

    :rofl:
  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    edited May 2016
    Double post that I did not do.
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  • Foriginal Sin
    Foriginal Sin Scottsdale, AZ Posts: 1,876
    edited May 2016
    "Sad" for me. Amazing music and lyrics but Fatal is also amazing. Love "Otherside" as well I just wish I could understand the lyrics better on the song. Kinda mumbling
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  • buck502000
    buck502000 Birthplace of GIBSON guitar Posts: 8,951
    Wrigley 16 - we will have fatal
  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    OP since you're being honest...
    Fatal belongs on lost dogs.
  • Flamery
    Flamery New York Posts: 258
    My vote is for Undone.
  • pledgeagrievance
    pledgeagrievance Posts: 2,874
    JonnyPistachio said:



    Tboz51 wrote:

    This may be the best "left off" song ever!


    Fatal & Sad are two incredible songs. I was first amazed that they left these off any record -- but then I later appreciated the gem that was left for us to dig up elsewhere (until lost dogs of course) :)

    Yes Fatal is right there on top! Good call. With Sad, Otherside, Undone, and Wash in the conversation.

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