Oh Juice!

Thursday, July 21, 2005

AS LOVERS GO - Dashboard Confessional

She said, "I've got to be honest, you're wasting your time if you're fishin's around here."

And I said, "You must be mistaken, I'm not foolin' this feelin' is real."

She said, "You've gotta be crazy! What do you take me for? Some kind of easy mark?"

"No, you've got wits, you've got looks, you've got passion,
but I swear that you've got me all wrong."
I'll be true, I'll be useful, I'll be cavalier, I'll be yours my dear,
I'll belong to you if you just let me through.

This is as easy as lovers go. So don't complicate it by hesitating.
This is wonderful as loving goes.
This is tailor-made, what's the sense in waiting?
I said, "Ive got to be honest. I've been wanting for you all my life."
For so long I thought I was asylum bound, but just seeing you makes me think twice.
And being with you here makes me sane. I fear I'll go crazy if you leave my side.

"You've got wits, you've got looks, you've go passion,
but are you brave enough to leave with me tonight?"

I was listening to Dashboard Confessional's album A Mark. A Mission. A Brand. A Scar. which I bought during the summer but never actually got the chance to listen to, I've heard the song AS LOVERS GO so many times before coz I have the acoustic version but I never actually took notice of the lyrics.

Then when I listened to it a while ago, it kinda hit me. I don't know why, but for a certain reason it did. Maybe coz of the sincerity of the lyrics and how it was delivered by the composer. I swear Christopher Ender Carraba has got to have one of the best minds of a composer and musician. I mean check out the lyrics of Dashboard Confessional songs, they're indirect but they fall straight to the point. Plus they're so smart. For example the songs The Swiss Army Romance, A Plain Morning, The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most, Screaming Infidelities and my personal favorite, Hands Down.

But check out these songs: Rapid Hope Loss (the lyrics are very indirectly direct), Ender Will Save Us All (I recommended it to Pratz, and he freezed when he heard the lyrics), and of course For Justin (if you totally understand the lyrics, it will make you cry, although the song doesn't..)

And his choice of words/vocabulary are amazing! Discrepancies (meaning: difference) from For Justin. I'd like to quote few of the lyrics which really amazed me.

"I catalog these steps now, decisive and intentioned,
precise and patterned specifically to yours.
I'm talented at breathing, especially exhaling,
so that my chest will rise and fall with yours.
I'm careful not to wake you, fearing conversation,
it's better just to hold you and keep you pacified."
-Bend and Not Break

There is so still so much more I wanna share but I just wanna leave you to analyze the lyrics. Believe me, they're amazing, and I don't think I'll ever get over my Dashboard Confessional state ever.

♥ Justine
7:31 PM