uhm, but, as prec as he is with long hair, i would prefer this. complete 180 and i want his babies now. Honestly, we all know I don’t want children. But, if it was with him, I honestly would have 7. K?
Okay, everyone. THIS is what’s been making me cry.
The Gambler /// fun.
Slow down, we’ve got time left to be lazy All the kids have bloomed from babies into flowers in our eyes. We’ve got 50 good years left to spend out in the garden I don’t care to beg your pardon, We should live until we die.
We were barely 18 when we’d crossed collective hearts. It was cold, but it got warm when you’d barely crossed my eye. and then you turned, put out your hand, and you asked me to dance. I knew nothing of romance, but it was love at second sight.
I swear when I grow up, I won’t just buy you a rose. I will buy the flower shop, and you will never be lonely. Even if the sun stops waking up over the fields I will not leave, I will not leave ‘till it’s our time. So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side.
It was the winter of ‘86, and all the fields had frozen over. So we moved to Arizona to save our only son and now he’s turning to a man, although he thinks just like his mother, he believes we’re all just lovers he sees hope in everyone.
And even though she moved away, we always get calls from our daughter. She has eyes just like her father’s they are blue when skies are grey And just like him, she never stops, Never takes the day for granted, works for everything that’s handed to her, Never once complains.
You think that I nearly lost you When the doctors tried to take you away. But like the night you took my hand beside the fire 30 years ago to this day You swore you’d be here ‘til we decide that it’s our time Well it’s not time, you’ve never quit in all your life. So just take my hand, you know that I’ll never leave your side. You’re the love of my life, you know that I’ll never leave your side.
You come home from work and you kiss me on the eye You curse the dogs and say that I should never feed them what is ours and the kids are coming home I’ll set the table You can make the fire.
“It was the winter of ‘86, and all the fields had frozen over.
So we moved to Arizona to save our only son
and now he’s turning to a man, although he thinks just like his mother,
he believes we’re all just lovers he sees hope in everyone.”
I am really excited about this song. I agree that it seems to be about the Format breaking up. Here is my interpretation.
I think the first verse and the “chorus” is all about not holding grudges. Nate is telling people to relax, just enjoy what is around you, and forgive people.
Then Nate talks about someone he loves. I love the line “It’s a beautiful thing when you love somebody.” I think Nate includes this verse to show that although he lost one thing (his band), he still has his love. His eggs weren’t all in one basket.
Then Nate says “I don’t think I’d been misled,it was a rocknroll band,I’m still standing.” This is about The Format. I feel like he is justifying the fact that he is able to take his time and to forgive everyone by saying that it was just a band.
Then comes the “see of everyone who called” verse. Most of the people who called Nate after the break-up had a “I told you so” attitude. They thought he would fail, and felt like he did. However, Nate didn’t fail. He was successful with The Format, established himself in the music world and has a bright future. My favorite line is “if it’s true, if it’s true, if it’s true, then what the fuck have I been doing these last six years.” Then Nate keeps proving everybody wrong by listing all of the things he has done and overcome.
The dream part is a bit more difficult to understand. I imagine that the kids in the dream are Nate and his friends as kids. Nate has said in songs and at concerts that his family always had modest means. I also think that being through “causing a scene” is important. In the First single, the first song that The Format really got popular, Nate sings “Let’s cause a scene.” I feel that that line symbolizes the Format, and that Nate is saying he is through with the Format.
Nate ends by saying that for every love that goes, a new one comes. The Format left, but Fun is now here. That is what he means by that. He wants everybody to not take things for granted and to enjoy things while you can. That is why he wants everybody to tell the people they love how they feel.
"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes. I am out of control at times and hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
