"Who ever said" lyrics

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  • Posts: 329
    BrainofBGA said:
    Wonder if they contemplate making this the opening rocker for the first show back...??? Well know the song pretty well by then. This could scorch the roof off the joint if they can nail it live!? 
    Would be perfect. Maybe just play the whole album front-to-back even :grin:
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    TJ25487 said:
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    Not only my favorite song on this record but one of my all time favorites do to these lyrics right here! Holy shit those are some powerful lyrics. Yes, I do hear "swallow my pencil and bleed out my pen" just as the lyrics state. 
    "Living forward in a backwards town...I feed em drinks just to watch em drown"

    love it
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  • Montana Posts: 1,201
    TJ25487 said:
    And let's not forget the final crescendo when Ed belts:

    A rubble of commandments from the road, step aside!
    A rubble of commandments in the road, step aside!!!!!!!!

    I want to hit something after that! Hahaha! 
    Love that part! 
  • Posts: 3,892
    This will be the new "Getaway" imo.  Awesome on record but will struggle to translate live.  
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    evenflow82 said:
    This will be the new "Getaway" imo.  Awesome on record but will struggle to translate live.  
    I have a feeling you’re right.
  • Posts: 106
    I was actually listening to this the other day and was wondering what people's take on that specific line is in terms of meaning (I definitely do hear the official lyrics though pretty clearly in the song)

    "Swallow my pencil and bleed out my pen"

    Any guesses what this means/is trying to say?
  • Posts: 366
    i am still super happy about getting to know this album before the live tour hits. i will even state that i hate having a new album released within a week/month before the start of a supporting tour for the new record. by any band. not just pj
    i'm finding different gems every week with the new pj record, and have listened about 15 times so far. the album has such a strong start and that has overshadowed the greatness of each of those first 4 individual songs for me. having said that this opening track i was floored with this week. it's absolutely fantastic in every sense. imo
    and i especially can't not get over this lyric. my mind is blown again! 
    "all the answers will be found, in the mistakes that we have made"  wow !
  • Posts: 270
    I'm not wild about the keyboard/guitar back and forth in the first half (in fact it's my least fave non-Buckle Up part of the album) but man I love the 2nd half of this song.
  • Posts: 7,762
    I hear: 

    "I'm hearing Satan calling as I'm falling out of sight."

    Every time, I stop and look in the lyric book to figure out what the words *actually* are there ... then forget the next time I listen to the song.


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    edited May 2020
    Still owe myself more listens to Gigaton, everything's great though. When I actually focus, which is not always easy but it is a delight. 
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  • Montana Posts: 1,201
    slightofjeff said:
    I hear: 

    "I'm hearing Satan calling as I'm falling out of sight."

    Every time, I stop and look in the lyric book to figure out what the words *actually* are there ... then forget the next time I listen to the song.


    I’m hearing the same, but Ed has always had a special fondness for poor enunciation 
  • Posts: 3,508
    edited May 2020
    mshnayder said:
    I was actually listening to this the other day and was wondering what people's take on that specific line is in terms of meaning (I definitely do hear the official lyrics though pretty clearly in the song)

    "Swallow my pencil and bleed out my pen"

    Any guesses what this means/is trying to say?
    Not entirely sure, but Ed’s pen and pencil are his weapons (lyrics) to effect change in the world. Maybe he’s doubling down on doing everything he can putting his blood and sweat into this work?
  • Posts: 2,874
    I took it as a pen is more permanent. He swallowed his pencil, which when something is written in pencil it’s not definite, plus a pencil has an eraser, so you can take things back. 
    So he swallowed his pencil, meaning he’s done with half measures. He’s using his pen, he’s taking more of a stand and in fact he believes in it so much the message is pouring/bleeding out of him 
  • Posts: 1,501
    pledgeagrievance said:
    I took it as a pen is more permanent. He swallowed his pencil, which when something is written in pencil it’s not definite, plus a pencil has an eraser, so you can take things back. 
    So he swallowed his pencil, meaning he’s done with half measures. He’s using his pen, he’s taking more of a stand and in fact he believes in it so much the message is pouring/bleeding out of him 
    Great interpretation IMO! I'm going with that one! Thanks! 
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    edited May 2020
    pledgeagrievance said:
    I took it as a pen is more permanent. He swallowed his pencil, which when something is written in pencil it’s not definite, plus a pencil has an eraser, so you can take things back. 
    So he swallowed his pencil, meaning he’s done with half measures. He’s using his pen, he’s taking more of a stand and in fact he believes in it so much the message is pouring/bleeding out of him 
    Double down on this.  I'm just coming to the thread now and was exactly my interpretation as well.  

    As for the OP, I definitely don't hear that and concur with one reply that I can't see Eddie being a fan of shitty beer and vaping considering how particular he is in his wine drinking and how much he smokes the real thing.

    I suspect vaping to a long time smoker is akin to drinking non-alcoholic  or fruity beer. 
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  • Posts: 3,508
    pledgeagrievance said:
    I took it as a pen is more permanent. He swallowed his pencil, which when something is written in pencil it’s not definite, plus a pencil has an eraser, so you can take things back. 
    So he swallowed his pencil, meaning he’s done with half measures. He’s using his pen, he’s taking more of a stand and in fact he believes in it so much the message is pouring/bleeding out of him 
    Nice! I like that interpretation!
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    I took it as 'pen' rhymes with 'again'
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    Gern Blansten said:
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    "Living forward in a backwards town...I feed em drinks just to watch em drown"

    love it
    Ok people help me out on this one! I know the lyrics say "Living forward" but I am pretty sure Ed says "Leaning forward". 
    What do you all hear? 
  • Montana Posts: 1,201
    Living
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    KN219077 said:
    Living
    Seriously? Ok then we need a tiebreaker. 

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