u/evrypaneofglass

gm it's Friday and we have another requested song to talk about! You don't have to stick with what we officially know about what a song means. We'll treat anything Alex has said as his interpretation rather than canon we have to keep to. If you want to discuss that, let's go! But please feel free to discuss how you personally interpret it or how it has resonated in your own life.

If you'd like to request a song, DM me. Otherwise, I'll just pick something.

Remembering Sunday

He woke up from dreaming and put on his shoes
Started making his way past two in the morning
He hasn't been sober for days

Leaning now into the breeze
Remembering Sunday, he falls to his knees
They had breakfast together
But two eggs don't last
Like the feeling of what he needs

Now this place seems familiar to him
She pulled on his hand with a devilish grin
She led him upstairs, she led him upstairs
Left him dying to get in

Forgive me, I'm trying to find
My calling, I'm calling at night
I don't mean to be a bother
But have you seen this girl?
She's been running through my dreams
And it's driving me crazy, it seems
I'm going to ask her to marry me

Even though she doesn't believe in love
He's determined to call her bluff
Who could deny these butterflies?
They're filling his gut

Waking the neighbors, unfamiliar faces
He pleads though he tries
But he's only denied
Now he's dying to get inside

Forgive me, I'm trying to find
My calling, I'm calling at night
I don't mean to be a bother
But have you seen this girl?
She's been running through my dreams
And it's driving me crazy, it seems
I'm going to ask her to marry me

The neighbors said she moved away
Funny how it rained all day
I didn't think much of it then
But it's starting to all make sense
Oh, I can see now that all of these clouds
Are following me in my desperate endeavor
To find my whoever, wherever she may be

I'm not coming back (forgive me)
I've done something so terrible
I'm terrified to speak (I'm not calling, I'm not calling)
But you'd expect that from me
I'm mixed up, I'll be blunt, now the rain is just (You're driving me crazy, I'm)
Washing you out of my hair and out of my mind
Keeping an eye on the world,
From so many thousands of feet off the ground, I'm over you now
I'm at home in the clouds, and towering over your head

Well I guess I'll go home now
I guess I'll go home now
I guess I'll go home now
I guess I'll go home

When I post a video, I get asks for other songs (which I don’t mind, being able to share them is a big part of the reason I take videos). Since it’s happened several times, I figured I’d just ask if there’s anything you guys want to see so I can have it in one place.

If it’s a song they’ve played since 2021, there’s a good chance I have a full video of it. And dw, I will space out any requests so I’m not spamming the sub.

gm it's Friday and we have a requested song to talk about! You don't have to stick with what we officially know about what a song means. We'll treat anything Alex has said as his interpretation rather than canon we have to keep to. If you want to discuss that, let's go! But please feel free to discuss how you personally interpret it or how it has resonated in your own life.

If you'd like to request a song, too, DM me. Otherwise, I'll just pick something.

Nightmares

There's a little house on a perfect little hill
Just short of a fairy tale
There's a little child with a million ways to feel
Caught up in a hurricane

Paper thin walls
Angry words from down the hall
Something changed them
I think about him every now and again

Now there's a ghost in the back of this room
And I don't like it
I fall asleep with my covers pulled up
And try to fight it

I gotta say it's hard to be brave
When you're alone in the dark
I told myself that I wouldn't be scared
But I'm still having nightmares
I'm still having nightmares
(I'm wide awake, I'm wide awake)
(I'm still having nightmares)

Never did I think I’d be coming back around
Digging up old memories
Always used to be the one to let it go
Kept my fears in a suitcase

I locked them away
In a place I wouldn't find
They still haunt me
I think about it every now and again

Now there's a ghost in the back of this room
And I don't like it
I fall asleep with my covers pulled up
And try to fight it

I gotta say it's hard to be brave
When you're alone in the dark
I told myself that I wouldn't be scared
But I'm still having nightmares
I'm still having nightmares
(I'm wide awake, I'm wide awake)
(I'm still having nightmares)

Now there's a ghost in the back of this room
And I don't like it
I fall asleep with my covers pulled up
And try to fight it

Now there's a ghost in the back of this room
And I don't like it
I fall asleep with my covers pulled up
And try to fight it

I gotta say it's hard to be brave
When you're alone in the dark
I told myself that I wouldn't be scared
But I'm still having nightmares
I'm still having nightmares
(I'm wide awake, I'm wide awake)
(I'm still having nightmares)

I gotta say it's hard to be brave
When you're alone in the dark
I told myself that I wouldn't be scared
But I'm still having nightmares
(I'm wide awake, I'm wide awake)

I don't know it anyone's interested, but just in case: the patterns I saw when I was talking to my friends are definitely reflected in the answers I got here. Basically people's favorite album, from most to least common:

1. The album after their first full album cycle. For example Don't Panic being the fave if Dirty Work was their first full cycle
2. The first album they heard
3. The album from their first full cycle
4. A very recent album (pretty sure there's some recency bias going on here. Everyone's Talking! is a great album, but the numbers still seem really skewed)
5. An album 2+ after their first full album cycle (but not TMIA or ET!)
6. An album released prior to the first album they heard, regardless of how long after its release they heard it. For example: if someone heard Dirty Work first, even if they didn't hear it until right before LYR came out, it's really uncommon for SWIR or NP to be their favorite

I'm fascinated by how often the next album after the first cycle someone is a fan for ends up being people's favorite. I would have expected it to be that first full era or the first album you heard much more often. Now I'm curious if there's anything behind that, or if it's just coincidence. No one has done any studies I can find (bc why tf would they have, it's incredibly niche and dumb 🤣💀)

Caveats: there are outliers, the above isn't true for every person with every band, it's just the general categories people's faves fell into both here and among my friends. The sample size was tiny and from a single scene, so this is all fully unscientific and shouldn't be taken too seriously.

I was talking to some friends about our entry points into various bands, including ATL, and now I'm curious what other people have to say because I saw some interesting patterns across bands haha

The first album I heard was Last Young Renegade since I came in right at the end of the era, which means my first full album cycle was Wake Up, Sunshine. My favorite (obviously) is LYR.

Hi hi hi, it's Friday let's talk about a song! You don't have to stick with what we officially know about what a song means. Alex has talked about this one, but we'll treat what he's said as his interpretation. If you want to discuss that, let's go! But please feel free to discuss how you personally interpret it or how it has resonated in your own life.

If you'd like to request a song, DM me. Otherwise, I'll just pick something.

No Idea

I was dreamin' we were running from a city burning
Down, down, down
Made a break, a new escape, and let the world crash
Down, down, down

Now there's a piece of me
Tells me I shouldn't leave
Every time I see your face
(Every time I see your face)
Because every time you come around
Love, you take my breath away

And I just wanna breathe until I take you in
I never want you to leave until I take you in
(But the truth is)

She has no idea (no idea)
That I'm even here (that I'm even here)
She has no idea (no idea)
That I'm even here (that I'm even here)

Get a grip, slip and trip, over clumsy careless
Words, words, words
Paper-thin fingerprints on a softly spoken
Verse, verse, verse

Now there's so much of me
Telling me not to leave
Every time I see your face
(Every time I see your face)
Because every time you come around
Love, you take my breath away

And I just wanna breathe until I take you in
I never want you to leave until I take you in
(But the truth is)

She has no idea (no idea)
That I'm even here (that I'm even here)
She has no idea (no idea)
That I'm even here (that I'm even here)

She's so close when I'm so far away
When I'm so far away
Let me dream, let me stay
She's so close when I'm so far away
When I'm so far away
I can sleep, I can dream, I can change

She has no idea (but I'm so far away)
That I'm even here
She has no idea (now I'm so far away)
That I'm even here

She has no idea (no idea)
That I'm even here (that I'm even here)
She has no idea (no idea)
That I'm even here (that I'm even here)
She has no idea (no idea)
That I'm even here (that I'm even here)
She has no idea (no idea)
That I'm even here (that I'm even here)

She has no idea (she has no idea, no idea)
She has no idea (that I'm even here, that I'm even here)
She has no idea (she has no idea, no idea)
She has no idea (that I'm even here, that I'm even here)
She has no idea

Hey, hi, it's Friday let's talk about an older song this week! You don't have to stick with what we officially know about what a song means. We'll treat anything Alex has said as his interpretation rather than canon we have to keep to. If you want to discuss that, let's go! But please feel free to discuss how you personally interpret it or how it has resonated in your own life.

If you'd like to request a song, DM me. Otherwise, I'll just pick something.

Let It Roll

The time on the clock reads half past four
I'm wide awake and thinking
With my pillow on the floor

Then maybe I'm just wasting my time
Dreaming in a harsh reality
I don't wanna wake up just to find out
It's the same

Let it roll, our time is fleeting so we take control
From California to my home sweet home
Our days repeating like it's all we know
It's all we know

Out here the hills roll on for miles
The sun is like my own sense of direction
I'm always drawn to each horizon

When it's rising, when it sets
But all I can think about is sex
And playing one more game of six cup
In the backyard at the wedge
I know I'll never die alone because of all of you

Let it roll, our time is fleeting so we take control
From California to my home sweet home
Our day's repeating like it's all we know
It's all we know

Take, take a breath
We've got all the time in the world
To get a grip on the fact that we don't last
But right now I wanna watch the tide roll in
With my best friends

Let it roll, our time is fleeting so we take control
From California

Let it roll, our time is fleeting so we take control
From California to my home sweet home
Let it roll, it's all we know
It's all we know