The most important lyric is so subtle that it’s easily missed. “Stop a baby’s breath…”. Take it quite literally. They stopped a pregnancy. Now he’s guilt-stricken over it.
@@tonyspannaus3032 I know the story behind the song. My thinking is that the story the song states is NOT the same story as the story behind the song. Like the writer got creative and wrote a different story for the song.
"I had this idea of a short story that pertained to me and a friend of mine who had dated the same girl and kind of went back and forth with her - I dated her for a while and then we broke up and he dated her and then I dated her again. And then one of us got her pregnant and she had an abortion. Neither one of us knew who the father was. So, that’s where the truth ends. And poetic license took over and had her commit suicide. But she didn’t in real life."
The Verve Pipe's lead singer, Brian Vander Ark, wrote this song based on a real-life event: his ex-girlfriend getting an abortion. He did take some liberties: In the second verse, she overdoses on Valium to commit suicide, but this part never happened. In a Songfacts interview with Vander Ark, he explained: "Part of the story was true in the fact that I had gone out with a girl and my buddy had gone out with her after I went out with her, and then I went out with her again and then she ended up getting pregnant and having an abortion. But from there, there's poetic license that happens and makes the story more dramatic. A neophyte writer that I was, I ended up having her commit suicide, and that never happened."
I was a freshman in college when this came out and hated because it was played nonstop on the radio and TV. Looking back now as an adult it’s so deep and will listen to it every time it comes on.
The first part of the song is based on real life events. His friend got a girl pregnant that he was seeing before. She ended up getting an abortion. The rest of the song is fictional, including that same girl committing suicide.
He and his best friend friend got her pregnant (they did not know who)......his best friend took a week vacation to forget HIS girl took a weeks worth a valium (not true part)....WE were just freshmen....WE wont be held responsible (him and his best friend)
I was in my early 20's when this hit...when i hear it now, I want to cry. The nostalgia is just too much, hanging out on the Strip..the smells and the music from all the different bars. The lyrics are deep, as you will find out in the comments. It just hits different now that I'm a 51 year old looking back.
It's the story of a love triangle between the writer, his friend, and the girl they were both dating. The girl got pregnant and no one knew who the father was, so she had an abortion, literally stopping a baby's breath and a shoe full of rice meant she stopped a wedding that might have happened due to the pregnancy. Then the writer took poetic license and had the girl commit suicide, but that part didn't actually happen. In the song, though, both boys felt tremendous guilt, but felt they couldn't be held responsible, because they were just kids and it wasn't their fault they didn't know who the father of the baby was. All they could do was grieve the loss. The woman is very much alive today, but the abortion did happen, because neither boy stepped up and took responsibility.
This song is just super nostalgic me as I was a young teen myself, and I think that’s also what it’s about. It just kinda captures that feeling of looking back at those fleeting years, thinking of how you felt, what you did and didn’t know, and how you got through them
I’ve always loved this song. I gave up on the exact meaning, but the chorus is so good! I can relate to that. Believe everyone can. Great, honest review! Keep up the amazing work Britt!
the song is about his friend and "dating" the same girl she got pregnant had and abortion...that is the only truth in the song....The girl did not kill herself in real life...but he said it in the song as Poetic license...Being a freshman is being young and dumb and she touched her face came from the divinyls i touch myself...
I understand, thank you, still doesn't change a thing, the past is the past, what matters now is now, moving forward knowing what you know and always learning to learn from what you don't or didn't or both knew or known 😊😊😊
You say you aren't seeing it, but I think you sound like you understand pretty well. Lots of symbolism about how we all thought we were invincible and all-knowing, and how crucial everything felt all the time, when we were young. Thanks for another great reaction, I've been a fan of Verve Pipe since they emerged from the West Michigan music scene during my college days at WMU. Brian, the lead singer, has also hosted on the the local classic rock station here (WLAV) and done collaborations with others, including Jeff Bridges (another Michigan native).
God, I love this song. Thankfully and sadly since it reminds me of better days but also missed opportunities. No matter what the original lyrics meant, I believe a lot of us interpret this song in our own way and own experiences. Great reaction, as always. You nailed it about us being young and thinking we know everything when we certainly didn't. I will always live with the regret for who I used to be.
My favorite song by The Verve Pipe is "Colorful" It was featured on the soundtrack for Rock Star starring Mark Wahlberg. Great soundtrack that also has one of my favorite metal ballads "We All Die Young"
The whole time I'm thinking this was used on movies and TV shows for "moody" music. I recognize the band name and for some reason the song name seemed familiar.
Hey, that lead singer went to Kenowa Hills School in Grand Rapids, not far from me. We might have went to the same College for a minute, I can't remember everything, we were merely Freshmen. I remember that dude around town.
This song goes so hard. I was in high school when it came out. We all liked it. Even the head bangers and hip hop fans liked this song. Also the song about dealing with feelings after an abortion as young people in high school. I’m only a minute in so you may grab it, no worries, it took me multiple listens and some weed before it clicked one day
Awesome video another great reaction by you like always love how you say welcome back too the party on your youtube channel so awesome thank you so much for sharing this video with us love it Britt.👍
"Stopped a baby's breath and a shoe full of rice." = Had an abortion and avoided getting married. "She was touching her face" is an allusion to the song "I Touch Myself" by Divinyls.
The lead singer of the group wrote this song based on an actual event: his ex-girlfriend had an abortion. He allowed himself some liberties when writing the music: in the second verse, the girl takes a massive amount of Valium to lay hands on herself, but this, fortunately, did not happen. In an interview with Songfacts, Vander Ark explained, “Part of the story is pretty plausible in that my buddy and I took turns hanging out with the same girl. But after such ambiguous encounters, she discovered her pregnancy and had an abortion. But here again, there is lyrical liberty, giving the story a dramatic effect. The neophyte rhymer ended the song by making the girl commit suicide, but this never happened in reality.
Canadian Thoughts; This is a song about 2 frat-bro's who tag-team a girl, and she takes her own life. They are crippled by this(unlike reality, where kids manage to shrug this sh*t off) and the result ripple through their lives, causing damage to their own loved ones, and destroy them in totality. I am siding with Britt, the 'Babys breath' is wedding flower call out, not a dead baby analogy. And before anyone one asks, yes, I am at the age that when this song came out, I was a 'freshman'(we just don't use that term up in the North).
In short the song is about a freshman couple who got an abortion, and the girl committing suicide afterward do to guilt. Songs from the guy perspective trying to deal with the guilt. Or at the very least that’s how I interpreted the story
This is about three freshmen in a tragic love triangle. Two friends dated the same girl, she became pregnant and it was never revealed who the father was, She then had an abortion and became so despondent she "unalived" herself.
I know what the writer has to say and I've always understood people not catching on to the play on words at the beginning but by far the most important point of the lyrics to me is "I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins, we were merely freshmen." For the life of me, I cannot believe it either. I'm not sure any of us are really "seniors" when it comes to really knowing what we're doing either. I don't think I'm the only one who is just an old freshman.
Hello Britt, I'm drinking a very good German beer and watching Rammstein - Du Hast (Live in Paris). wow this is the best live performer on this planet if not all the galaxies. I looooooooooooooooooooove you.
@@brittreacts Yes, my dear, most beautiful woman of all galaxies, I liked it too. But if you would react to Rammstein - Du Hast (Live in Paris), then I invite you to the biggest folk festival in the world.😘😘😘😘😆😆
Im a huge Verve Pipe fan. Ive seen them 5 or 6 times since they they broke out on this album. This was their most low key song. They rock much harder than this. An amazing band live. You should check out Photograph, Never Let You Down, Drive You Mild, or Villains. You say that you werent "getting it", but your insights were pretty spot on to my interpretations, but whether we are both are wrong or right is moot, since music is an individual interpretive experience, imo.
The song is about a girl who has an Abortion & then commits suicide. Her boyfriend is basically trying to convince himself that he's not responsible. If I recall correctly, it's based on the experience of a friend
i just read an article about this song and supposedly its a fictional story about 2 friends who both hooked up with a girl around the same time and her abortion i think it might be based on a movie with the same name but im not exactly sure
When this one came out I was just as mystified with its darkly cryptic lyrics. Kind of annoying to find out later that there was no mystery to solve after all the effort though.
The cut is *DOPE* but we all 'white boys' used to have basically that same hair for a while there.... *1st stanza* he & his school sweetheart got pregnant and then decided to abort it, which stopped them from getting married. *2nd stanza* his friend left their girlfriend and she committed suicide, which messes him up I guess for life. *Semi-deep song* kinna!!
Somewhat reminds me of *Penny* who was my girl in 9th and most of 10th grade at *Maury....* We used to have sex constantly instead of going to class & then one day, out of nowhere, she tells me her father was being sent to Florida, taking the family with him. *This floored me* honestly, as a *teenage boy/Varsity Letterman,* losing my *Cheerleader* was devastating & losing my sex was even more so.. *Penny* is actually my little girl *Ciara's* mother, but I didn't find out until 4 years later when I was contacted by a freaking scumbag *Lawyer* wanting money from me. *$690 a MONTH for 14 YEARS* but at least she didn't abort it!!
I kind of chalk this up to one of many, many songs that sound really good but if you look at all the lyrics as a whole, you're like wtf. I'm one of those people who doesn't try to figure all the lyrics out and piece the story together because sometimes they just don't make a lot of sense and it ruins something that once sounded good!
This was my best friend when he had sex with his ex'. (laying in bed, thinking about their mistakes) (unable to do so because of the magic of the moment and their blindness)
Actually, trying to dissect the song is unnecessary. The song is about how you think you know everything in your youth but you really don't know anything. And since you don't know you shouldn't be blamed for your mistakes. It starts with an abortion which stops a baby's breath and a wedding. Then the guy ghosts the girl and she commits suicide. But because "she was touching her face" meaning she was the seductress, it's not the guy's (or guys' depending on whether it's taken as one relationship or two) fault. Of course as he's aged he feels guilt because it was caused by his mistakes even though he tried to be careful ie "fell through the ice when we tried not to slip". The "lacking relationships" are the relationships that are non-existing, the relationship with the child that wasn't born, and the girl who ended her life.
The first verse is about his girlfriend telling him she had an abortion. Not sure what the shoe full of rice refers to. The second verse is about someone who left his girlfriend and she committed suicide. I think the overall song is about adolescents dipping their toes into adult things and finding out about adult consequences. I'm sure even those of us who "got away" with things know people who had to learn the hard way much too young.
Shoe full of rice - Wedding (think of the throwing of rice). And the third verse has the girl/woman's suicide reverberating in both the character's life and the life of his friends (hence the shifting of pronouns from "I" to "he" to "We" throughout the song.
Britt, I know it must be a lot, but I sure wish you'd go back to four vids per day! I've always loved this song. Don't beat yourself up too much over it though, I've always thought the lyrics were intentionally vague, left to be interpreted by the listener to fit their experiences. I imagine the song writer has a story behind the song but we're better off not knowing. Finally, after watching your reaction I realize how much negativity you must receive in the comments. I've probably contributed a little there myself (sorry). Listen, don't let it get to ya - we all obviously enjoy your reactions or we wouldn't watch them! Thanks for putting yourself out there.
It is nearly impossible to know what the song is about...other than a girl kills herself...Basicly 2 guys dated a girl back and forth...she got and abortion (which is true)....then they made up the part that she killed herself...(she took a weeks worth a valium) From the singer... the idea of a short story that pertained to me and a friend of mine who had dated the same girl and kind of went back and forth with her - I dated her for a while and then we broke up and he dated her and then I dated her again. And then one of us got her pregnant and she had an abortion. Neither one of us knew who the father was. So, that’s where the truth ends. And poetic license took over and had her commit suicide. But she didn’t in real life. So, the very heady, very tragic story - a little over-tragic, you know. But I felt like the melody and lyric had come together pretty easily. Everything rhythmically was working. But I was missing two elements. I worked on the song for six months, I think. And I was missing two elements after six months. And that was: I didn’t have that they were freshmen. I didn’t have, “We were merely freshmen.” And I didn’t have, “She was touching her face.” I used to work at a sporting goods store at the time and I was going to be late for work and I remember noodling around. I was playing the melody and I had the melody for “We we’re merely freshmen,” the ba-da-da-da-DA-da. And I was singing things around it like, “Gotta make some breakfast! Gotta quit my day job!” That kind of thing. And I’m sitting there and MTV is on and the volume is low, or down completely. And I look down at the coffee table, like, “What can I do here, the last line, I need this.” And I look down and there on the coffee table is copy of the VHS tape of the movie I rented the night before. And that movie was Matthew Broderick and Marlon Brando called, The Freshman. And I was looking at this thing and it finally dawns on me like, “This is perfect!” It’s a couple of guys who were in college and you’re sympathetic to them because, you think, you do these kinds of things in college. And it was the perfect thing, the perfect moment. Then the “She was touching her face” came right after that on MTV. Like I said, it was on in the corner, and it was the Divinyls video for, “I Touch Myself.” She was laying back, touching her face. It makes it sexy. And I was like, “Oh my god, this totally fits in this puzzle piece here.” And it doesn’t really mean anything according to the song but, of course, that’s one of the most quoted lines - especially now with COVID and people saying not to touch your face. And I got it right in that song. So, those were the two last puzzle pieces. Then I remember I got so excited about it that I had a show a couple nights later and I played this song before I was ready to play it. I didn’t have it memorized enough and I messed up all the words. But I got the “she was touching her face” and the “for the life for me” and at the end of the song, I had so many people come up and say, “What was that song about her touching her face.” So, I knew then that I had something here. From there, it just took off.
Eventually, anyone who gets/allows an abortion regrets it, whether they admit it at the time or not. Your sins will find you out. Good song. God bless.
Stopped a baby’s breath and a shoe full of rice….I think just means his girlfriend had an abortion which then in turn prevented them from getting married
Finally a "non obscure" Omegle BS track. I haven't seen a video worth watching here in months... I understand it's your choice and I can unsub...but I do like your takes on these songs...
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The most important lyric is so subtle that it’s easily missed. “Stop a baby’s breath…”. Take it quite literally. They stopped a pregnancy. Now he’s guilt-stricken over it.
Actually, it's the woman's death that throws the guy (and a few of his friends) into a funk that continued to "this day."
@@godozowrong - they did an interview and basically 2 guys dated same girl, she got pregnant, had an abortion and then killed herself
@@tonyspannaus3032 I know the story behind the song. My thinking is that the story the song states is NOT the same story as the story behind the song. Like the writer got creative and wrote a different story for the song.
"I had this idea of a short story that pertained to me and a friend of mine who had dated the same girl and kind of went back and forth with her - I dated her for a while and then we broke up and he dated her and then I dated her again. And then one of us got her pregnant and she had an abortion. Neither one of us knew who the father was. So, that’s where the truth ends. And poetic license took over and had her commit suicide. But she didn’t in real life."
I remember when this song and "closing time" by semisonic where all over the radio 1996-99 were great years for pop culture 😆
98!!
The Verve Pipe's lead singer, Brian Vander Ark, wrote this song based on a real-life event: his ex-girlfriend getting an abortion. He did take some liberties: In the second verse, she overdoses on Valium to commit suicide, but this part never happened.
In a Songfacts interview with Vander Ark, he explained: "Part of the story was true in the fact that I had gone out with a girl and my buddy had gone out with her after I went out with her, and then I went out with her again and then she ended up getting pregnant and having an abortion. But from there, there's poetic license that happens and makes the story more dramatic. A neophyte writer that I was, I ended up having her commit suicide, and that never happened."
I was a freshman in college when this came out and hated because it was played nonstop on the radio and TV. Looking back now as an adult it’s so deep and will listen to it every time it comes on.
The epitome of late 90s radio. I'm glad I was there for it.
truly!
The first part of the song is based on real life events. His friend got a girl pregnant that he was seeing before. She ended up getting an abortion. The rest of the song is fictional, including that same girl committing suicide.
Go bucky
👆🏻this guy’s got it. If you were a teenager in the late 90’s/early 00’s this song was deeply engrained in you brain.
Thanks for the info!
Shoe full of rice is an uncomfortable journey
He and his best friend friend got her pregnant (they did not know who)......his best friend took a week vacation to forget HIS girl took a weeks worth a valium (not true part)....WE were just freshmen....WE wont be held responsible (him and his best friend)
I was in my early 20's when this hit...when i hear it now, I want to cry. The nostalgia is just too much, hanging out on the Strip..the smells and the music from all the different bars. The lyrics are deep, as you will find out in the comments. It just hits different now that I'm a 51 year old looking back.
It's the story of a love triangle between the writer, his friend, and the girl they were both dating. The girl got pregnant and no one knew who the father was, so she had an abortion, literally stopping a baby's breath and a shoe full of rice meant she stopped a wedding that might have happened due to the pregnancy. Then the writer took poetic license and had the girl commit suicide, but that part didn't actually happen. In the song, though, both boys felt tremendous guilt, but felt they couldn't be held responsible, because they were just kids and it wasn't their fault they didn't know who the father of the baby was. All they could do was grieve the loss. The woman is very much alive today, but the abortion did happen, because neither boy stepped up and took responsibility.
This song is just super nostalgic me as I was a young teen myself, and I think that’s also what it’s about. It just kinda captures that feeling of looking back at those fleeting years, thinking of how you felt, what you did and didn’t know, and how you got through them
glad you enjoyed it!
When I got in the car to go home from school on the last day of eighth grade, this song was the song was playing. True story.
I’ve always loved this song. I gave up on the exact meaning, but the chorus is so good! I can relate to that. Believe everyone can. Great, honest review! Keep up the amazing work Britt!
the song is about his friend and "dating" the same girl she got pregnant had and abortion...that is the only truth in the song....The girl did not kill herself in real life...but he said it in the song as Poetic license...Being a freshman is being young and dumb and she touched her face came from the divinyls i touch myself...
And now I know the rest of the story. Awesome. Thank you!
Black guys reacting to alternative rock... nice combo... thanks for this!!!
I understand, thank you, still doesn't change a thing, the past is the past, what matters now is now, moving forward knowing what you know and always learning to learn from what you don't or didn't or both knew or known 😊😊😊
If you enjoy this song, another in a similar vain is Candlebox Far Away. Pull the lyrics and listen
It’s about high school love and your first heart break. Iit’s also about loosing a friend.
This was my favorite song growing up. Very emotional
It is a great song!
Symbolism is easy here: young love, trials and tribulations. How can we be held accountable if we are too young to understand. Great song
You say you aren't seeing it, but I think you sound like you understand pretty well. Lots of symbolism about how we all thought we were invincible and all-knowing, and how crucial everything felt all the time, when we were young. Thanks for another great reaction, I've been a fan of Verve Pipe since they emerged from the West Michigan music scene during my college days at WMU. Brian, the lead singer, has also hosted on the the local classic rock station here (WLAV) and done collaborations with others, including Jeff Bridges (another Michigan native).
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the info!
I was at GRCC when it came out, and even seeing Brian in Grand Rapids
God, I love this song. Thankfully and sadly since it reminds me of better days but also missed opportunities. No matter what the original lyrics meant, I believe a lot of us interpret this song in our own way and own experiences.
Great reaction, as always. You nailed it about us being young and thinking we know everything when we certainly didn't. I will always live with the regret for who I used to be.
My favorite song by The Verve Pipe is "Colorful"
It was featured on the soundtrack for Rock Star starring Mark Wahlberg. Great soundtrack that also has one of my favorite metal ballads "We All Die Young"
The whole time I'm thinking this was used on movies and TV shows for "moody" music. I recognize the band name and for some reason the song name seemed familiar.
I will keep those in mind, thanks!
You’ve got me to turn my notifications to all for you hon! Don’t change a thing!✌️😊🧿💙
Hey, that lead singer went to Kenowa Hills School in Grand Rapids, not far from me.
We might have went to the same College for a minute, I can't remember everything, we were merely Freshmen.
I remember that dude around town.
that is so cool!
This song goes so hard. I was in high school when it came out. We all liked it. Even the head bangers and hip hop fans liked this song. Also the song about dealing with feelings after an abortion as young people in high school. I’m only a minute in so you may grab it, no worries, it took me multiple listens and some weed before it clicked one day
I miss the 90's
Baby's breath symbolizes everlasting love and innocence. It's popular in wedding bouquets.
My friend and I love watching your reactions. You are a Dolly fan and so are we. How can anyone not be a fan of Dolly? God bless.
Dolly!!!!!!!!!!!!
truly Dolly is unmatched!
It’s about life wearing you down
They played at a bar I worked at before they blew up. They always seemed very nice.
In Grand Rapids?
@@jamescole8355 No. East Lansing.
omg this was another of my epic songs....i thought this was just never popular enough to make anyone list!!!!
Awesome video another great reaction by you like always love how you say welcome back too the party on your youtube channel so awesome thank you so much for sharing this video with us love it Britt.👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
Brit no one has reacted to this song. I think you will enjoy. Joan Jett - You Don’t Own Me. She covered a old song and nails it.
Yeaaaaahhhh love that idea 🎉🎉😊
Baby's breath is a flower
This came out my Freshman year of HS.
90s rock lyrics are very abstract
Should give jessy wilson a listen. Saw her at a gary clark concert and enjoyed her. Song to try "cold in the south", "love me" or "oh baby"
"Stopped a baby's breath and a shoe full of rice." = Had an abortion and avoided getting married. "She was touching her face" is an allusion to the song "I Touch Myself" by Divinyls.
_Further_ explanation:
_Hey?_
He was _just_ touching her face.
Can't hold them responsible.
They were _only_ freshman.
(sighs)
(blinks eyes)
I know im 5 days late. But if you see this, check out their song Villains off this very same album. This guy's voice is so powerful in it.
Lol… you got it at the end
Beautiful music you and you'res have a beautiful day darlin 🤠
glad you enjoyed it!
@@brittreacts absolutely I did you your family have a wonderful evening stay safe 🤠
The lead singer of the group wrote this song based on an actual event: his ex-girlfriend had an abortion. He allowed himself some liberties when writing the music: in the second verse, the girl takes a massive amount of Valium to lay hands on herself, but this, fortunately, did not happen.
In an interview with Songfacts, Vander Ark explained, “Part of the story is pretty plausible in that my buddy and I took turns hanging out with the same girl. But after such ambiguous encounters, she discovered her pregnancy and had an abortion. But here again, there is lyrical liberty, giving the story a dramatic effect. The neophyte rhymer ended the song by making the girl commit suicide, but this never happened in reality.
I cant believe that was ur firs time hearing this song!!! Its so sad!!!😭😭😭💔💔💔
Canadian Thoughts;
This is a song about 2 frat-bro's who tag-team a girl, and she takes her own life. They are crippled by this(unlike reality, where kids manage to shrug this sh*t off) and the result ripple through their lives, causing damage to their own loved ones, and destroy them in totality.
I am siding with Britt, the 'Babys breath' is wedding flower call out, not a dead baby analogy.
And before anyone one asks, yes, I am at the age that when this song came out, I was a 'freshman'(we just don't use that term up in the North).
In short the song is about a freshman couple who got an abortion, and the girl committing suicide afterward do to guilt. Songs from the guy perspective trying to deal with the guilt.
Or at the very least that’s how I interpreted the story
This is about three freshmen in a tragic love triangle. Two friends dated the same girl, she became pregnant and it was never revealed who the father was, She then had an abortion and became so despondent she "unalived" herself.
Maybe it's because I'm older but I always thought it was about college freshmen .
I know what the writer has to say and I've always understood people not catching on to the play on words at the beginning but by far the most important point of the lyrics to me is "I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins, we were merely freshmen."
For the life of me, I cannot believe it either. I'm not sure any of us are really "seniors" when it comes to really knowing what we're doing either. I don't think I'm the only one who is just an old freshman.
Hello Britt, I'm drinking a very good German beer and watching Rammstein - Du Hast (Live in Paris). wow this is the best live performer on this planet if not all the galaxies. I looooooooooooooooooooove you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@brittreacts Yes, my dear, most beautiful woman of all galaxies, I liked it too.
But if you would react to Rammstein - Du Hast (Live in Paris), then I invite you to the biggest folk festival in the world.😘😘😘😘😆😆
Im a huge Verve Pipe fan. Ive seen them 5 or 6 times since they they broke out on this album. This was their most low key song. They rock much harder than this. An amazing band live. You should check out Photograph, Never Let You Down, Drive You Mild, or Villains. You say that you werent "getting it", but your insights were pretty spot on to my interpretations, but whether we are both are wrong or right is moot, since music is an individual interpretive experience, imo.
The song is about a girl who has an Abortion & then commits suicide. Her boyfriend is basically trying to convince himself that he's not responsible.
If I recall correctly, it's based on the experience of a friend
i just read an article about this song and supposedly its a fictional story about 2 friends who both hooked up with a girl around the same time and her abortion i think it might be based on a movie with the same name but im not exactly sure
When this one came out I was just as mystified with its darkly cryptic lyrics. Kind of annoying to find out later that there was no mystery to solve after all the effort though.
The cut is *DOPE* but we all 'white boys' used to have basically that same hair for a while there....
*1st stanza* he & his school sweetheart got pregnant and then decided to abort it, which stopped them from getting married.
*2nd stanza* his friend left their girlfriend and she committed suicide, which messes him up I guess for life.
*Semi-deep song* kinna!!
Somewhat reminds me of *Penny* who was my girl in 9th and most of 10th grade at *Maury....*
We used to have sex constantly instead of going to class & then one day, out of nowhere, she tells me her father was being sent to Florida, taking the family with him. *This floored me* honestly, as a *teenage boy/Varsity Letterman,* losing my *Cheerleader* was devastating & losing my sex was even more so..
*Penny* is actually my little girl *Ciara's* mother, but I didn't find out until 4 years later when I was contacted by a freaking scumbag *Lawyer* wanting money from me.
*$690 a MONTH for 14 YEARS* but at least she didn't abort it!!
I kind of chalk this up to one of many, many songs that sound really good but if you look at all the lyrics as a whole, you're like wtf. I'm one of those people who doesn't try to figure all the lyrics out and piece the story together because sometimes they just don't make a lot of sense and it ruins something that once sounded good!
This was my best friend when he had sex with his ex'.
(laying in bed, thinking about their mistakes)
(unable to do so because of the magic of the moment and their blindness)
At 10:00, that's _exactly_ what he/we meet!
(sighs, again)
Actually, trying to dissect the song is unnecessary. The song is about how you think you know everything in your youth but you really don't know anything. And since you don't know you shouldn't be blamed for your mistakes. It starts with an abortion which stops a baby's breath and a wedding. Then the guy ghosts the girl and she commits suicide. But because "she was touching her face" meaning she was the seductress, it's not the guy's (or guys' depending on whether it's taken as one relationship or two) fault. Of course as he's aged he feels guilt because it was caused by his mistakes even though he tried to be careful ie "fell through the ice when we tried not to slip". The "lacking relationships" are the relationships that are non-existing, the relationship with the child that wasn't born, and the girl who ended her life.
I can NEVER listen this song with dry eyes.
Roxanne with Milky Chance and Henning May
The first verse is about his girlfriend telling him she had an abortion. Not sure what the shoe full of rice refers to. The second verse is about someone who left his girlfriend and she committed suicide. I think the overall song is about adolescents dipping their toes into adult things and finding out about adult consequences. I'm sure even those of us who "got away" with things know people who had to learn the hard way much too young.
thanks for the info and interpretation!
Shoe full of rice - Wedding (think of the throwing of rice).
And the third verse has the girl/woman's suicide reverberating in both the character's life and the life of his friends (hence the shifting of pronouns from "I" to "he" to "We" throughout the song.
Please also consider Tom’s Diner with Gaint Rook and AnneMayKaterite
Do more reactions to savannah dexter please
Britt, I know it must be a lot, but I sure wish you'd go back to four vids per day!
I've always loved this song. Don't beat yourself up too much over it though, I've always thought the lyrics were intentionally vague, left to be interpreted by the listener to fit their experiences. I imagine the song writer has a story behind the song but we're better off not knowing.
Finally, after watching your reaction I realize how much negativity you must receive in the comments. I've probably contributed a little there myself (sorry). Listen, don't let it get to ya - we all obviously enjoy your reactions or we wouldn't watch them! Thanks for putting yourself out there.
Don't be negative..
He [censored] _inside_ her.
Need I say more?
This song could, quite _literally,_ be about them!
Make sense now?
(sighs, yet, again)
It is nearly impossible to know what the song is about...other than a girl kills herself...Basicly 2 guys dated a girl back and forth...she got and abortion (which is true)....then they made up the part that she killed herself...(she took a weeks worth a valium)
From the singer...
the idea of a short story that pertained to me and a friend of mine who had dated the same girl and kind of went back and forth with her - I dated her for a while and then we broke up and he dated her and then I dated her again. And then one of us got her pregnant and she had an abortion. Neither one of us knew who the father was. So, that’s where the truth ends. And poetic license took over and had her commit suicide. But she didn’t in real life. So, the very heady, very tragic story - a little over-tragic, you know. But I felt like the melody and lyric had come together pretty easily. Everything rhythmically was working.
But I was missing two elements. I worked on the song for six months, I think. And I was missing two elements after six months. And that was: I didn’t have that they were freshmen. I didn’t have, “We were merely freshmen.” And I didn’t have, “She was touching her face.” I used to work at a sporting goods store at the time and I was going to be late for work and I remember noodling around. I was playing the melody and I had the melody for “We we’re merely freshmen,” the ba-da-da-da-DA-da. And I was singing things around it like, “Gotta make some breakfast! Gotta quit my day job!” That kind of thing. And I’m sitting there and MTV is on and the volume is low, or down completely. And I look down at the coffee table, like, “What can I do here, the last line, I need this.” And I look down and there on the coffee table is copy of the VHS tape of the movie I rented the night before. And that movie was Matthew Broderick and Marlon Brando called, The Freshman. And I was looking at this thing and it finally dawns on me like, “This is perfect!” It’s a couple of guys who were in college and you’re sympathetic to them because, you think, you do these kinds of things in college. And it was the perfect thing, the perfect moment.
Then the “She was touching her face” came right after that on MTV. Like I said, it was on in the corner, and it was the Divinyls video for, “I Touch Myself.” She was laying back, touching her face. It makes it sexy. And I was like, “Oh my god, this totally fits in this puzzle piece here.” And it doesn’t really mean anything according to the song but, of course, that’s one of the most quoted lines - especially now with COVID and people saying not to touch your face. And I got it right in that song. So, those were the two last puzzle pieces. Then I remember I got so excited about it that I had a show a couple nights later and I played this song before I was ready to play it. I didn’t have it memorized enough and I messed up all the words. But I got the “she was touching her face” and the “for the life for me” and at the end of the song, I had so many people come up and say, “What was that song about her touching her face.” So, I knew then that I had something here. From there, it just took off.
Yeah you over-thought the "Stop a baby's breath" lyric :/
Eventually, anyone who gets/allows an abortion regrets it, whether they admit it at the time or not. Your sins will find you out. Good song. God bless.
You like strings and keys and horns listen to KC and the sunshine band I'm your boogie man
Stopped a baby’s breath and a shoe full of rice….I think just means his girlfriend had an abortion which then in turn prevented them from getting married
If you like pop punk listen to new found glory my friends over you
Your lyrics site is wrong. It's not "die to these sins". It's " die for these sins". Changes the meaning.
You are WAY TOO PRETTY!!! Jesus Christ!!! 😳🤷🏼♂️
I’m wondering I’d they we’re gonna get married and she committed suicide. A week full of Valium and disappeared
Sadly, Britt, the song is about _abortion._
Hence: Stop a baby's breath. And, then, sadly, his girlfriend overdoses.
(sighs, sadly)
On your friends list I don't really know who doing it for some reason this person don't want me on your youtube channel I guess sorry Britt.
people pay too much attention to the lyrics and so low to the important here... Music
Last white football team by shane gillis… can we expect an reaction?
Sorry having alot problems getting on your youtube channel and putting comments their must be an scammer doing this sorry Britt.
I love your videos but its kind of sad you went from 8-10 videos a day to 2. I hope more are coming with more comedy mixed in.
Abortion and the effects on friends and families
Finally a "non obscure" Omegle BS track. I haven't seen a video worth watching here in months... I understand it's your choice and I can unsub...but I do like your takes on these songs...
Bippity boppity
A few you might “see what they have to say”.
Any songs from:
Foo Fighters
Soundgarden
Red Hot Chili Peppers
NEW REN SONG!!! REACTS TO ITS!!! YOU SHALL BE AMAZED!!!! :)
Have a fucking carrot as well, you'll need it :3