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Off the FOUR CORNERD NIGHT ALBUM:
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work it out with the lyrics thats what they play when the words with all verses:
bridge: "do the stars consipre"
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"do the stars con PIRE to kill us off with lonliness
am i so insipred that i could save the both of us.
"sunrise, cemetary nervous breakdown..."
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thats it! good luck!
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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jordan Average |
#1 by jordan roberts at Jan 30, 1974 at 1:05 AM EST |
| i stayed up half the night trying to think of something that rhymes with orange. plase post if you find a word. thats real. in english. the. end. stop. | |
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matthew Rhythm Player |
#2 by matthew riley at Jan 15, 1976 at 3:16 PM EST |
| "can you survive going crazy every time you see her?" that about sums up how im feeling right now, Blake rules! | |
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tory Average |
#3 by tory lopez at Aug 9, 1976 at 9:52 PM EST |
| This is just a small sample of what happens when blake gets a pen and paper. All of these words, which under anyother circumstances would make no sense, just flow like they were supposed to be together | |
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jga Average |
#4 by jga qup at Sep 11, 1979 at 8:06 AM EST |
| "do the stars conspire to shock us into tiny measures? can you survive going crazy every time you see her?" i love these lines. this song is very clever, especially if you look in to it. jets to brazil songs are great like that, they have so much hidden meaning. | |
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Grahm Cracker B Average |
#5 by Grahm Cracker Bassist at May 14, 1981 at 6:46 PM EST |
| Door Hinge /end dictionary. | |
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Gritch Wanna Be |
#6 by Gritch wefwe at Jun 18, 1982 at 11:17 AM EST |
| This is just a small sample of what happens when blake gets a pen and paper. All of these words, which under anyother circumstances would make no sense, just flow like they were supposed to be together | |
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#7 by xKGx at Mar 26, 1983 at 8:32 AM EST |
| Alright, it's late and i'm bored so I'm going to try to break this song down just for the hell of it. Please do not think less of me for any mistakes, because you're probably the one who's right. "words in my head / atom splitting up the twins / rocks inside my head again" -this might mean that the narrator (see: blake) has all these thoughts and words rolling around in his head basically with no direction or meaning "keeps me from your bed / sends me errand boy at swim / to drag my lake for scars" -these un-writeable and undefinable words are keeping him from being with the one he loves; the latter lines perhaps suggestion an inward reflection trying to find some hidden scars from the past "do the stars conspire / to kill us off with loneliness / am i so inspired that i could save / the both of us?" -the first two lines are a rhetorical question wondering whether or not everyone is destined to ultimately live their lives along; the last two lines are a question that hints at maybe this jumble of maddening words in his head might be the key to saving both him and the one he loves from living this life of loneliness "stayed up all night / rubbing words but they don't take / now the sun says / what a mess you've made" -these lines describe that the narrator was up all night trying to give his mess of words some order and meaning but it never happened. not that it's morning, he sees in the daylight all the crap that he made during the night "with a bag of beer / held like the last girl on earth / to keep your hands from words" -i think he's saying he's beginning to see the futility in trying to solve the puzzle of his mind and is turning towards alcohol to drown out his pain and loneliness, but this in turn keep him from working out those damned words "do the stars conspire to pin us / down like butterflies / a life on the trial the hot stare america" - another rhetorical question: he's feeling as if fate is singlehandedly preventing him from accomplishing what he set out to do. then, perhaps he feels as if his life is on trial and that he is living in the judgemental eye of everyone "sunrise cemetery nervous breakdown / saw my angel making eyes at strangers / i was indisposed i couldn't blame her / know i came to bury and wound up staying" -he noticed the girl whom he loves is making eyes at another guy (perhaps at a funeral due to the cemetary part) but he realizes that he was indisposed with his mental anguish of his insolvable puzzle and drinking to actually confront her. when he realizes this, that he'll never have the one he loves, a part of him dies. hence the symbolic meaning of the cemetary, he came for a funeral but part of him died and stayed there "verse in my head / first light fingers rake the hills / turns a landscape into lines" -again, he still has these words in his head, but perhaps they're making more sense, seeing as how he has arranged them into a verse (that craft blake, slipping a song-writing allusion in). again he finds himself still writing as the sun comes up. "finds the phantom limbs / connects the dots i got her name / from an orange rhyming dictionary" -perhaps the first two lines are suggesting that he's finally cracking the code, the words in his head making up the phantom limbs and connecting them like dots. then, of course, finding her name in an orange rhyming dictionary means that she was never real to begin with, or that the love wasn't real. "sunrise cemetery nervous breakdown / saw my angel making stories for me / now i know her and she meant to save me / with an orange rhyming dictionary" -this is a tough one. i'm thinking that he again finds himself in the cemetary, and this time he has confronted his love, and perhaps they even become friends. when he says the part about her making stories for him, maybe she is helping him untangle to neverending web of words and thoughts he has in his head. and saving him with an orange rhyming dictionary is perhaps meaning that realizing that his love never exisited he was able to free himself from the paralizing loneliness and depression he was dwelling in. "do the stars conspire to shock us into tiny measures / can you survive going crazy every time you see her?" -he's wondering if fate throws little things into our lives to shock us into remembering just how insignificant and powerless we are. Finally, after all he's realized and overcome, he still can't help but go crazy everytime he sees that girl, whether it's from the lingering feeling of love or just the reminder of what he had to go through. | |
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Nick Average |
#8 by Nick M at Jul 17, 1984 at 1:56 AM EST |
| Wrtier's block, yes. His angel, or muse, seems to be deserting him. But, he "got her name from an orange rhyming dictionary." His dots connected, he's found his inspiration again. Orange Rhyming Dictionary was also the name of the Jets to Brazil album that preceded this one. He seems to be fixated on that album in a few of the songs from Four Cornered Night. In another, "Little Light," he says "you're a sweet avenue/ I can't seem to get to." Sweet Avenue was the name of one of the best songs on Orange Rhyming Dictionary. Just my thoughts. | |
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ramon. Average |
#9 by ramon. at May 18, 1986 at 3:21 PM EST |
| That is really clever. I love blake more! | |
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Crystal Average |
#10 by Crystal at Jan 27, 1987 at 9:50 PM EST |
| personal thought: this could be about a (hopelessly) romantic's view of the world, where one holds out for that Perfect match (girl) that cannot exist due to the complexities of our language (thoughts, desires, communication). | |
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Zack Wanna Be |
#11 by Zack Volm at Aug 19, 1989 at 2:23 PM EST |
| I thought about it for awhile and the closest I could come was porridge. | |
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MacThistle Wanna Be |
#12 by MacThistle at Aug 4, 1991 at 4:08 PM EST |
| Whether he meant to or not, Blake wrote a song that perfectly describes what happened to me while I was on meth and living with my (ex) girl... here's what i mean... "rocks inside my head again keeps me from your bed" "stayed up all night... now the sun says what a mess you've made" "sunrise cemetery nervous breakdown saw my angel making eyes at strangers i was indisposed i couldn't blame her know i came to bury and wound up staying" the paranoid, tense, burnt out, desperation of starting things he can never put together or finish [ORANGE RHYMING DICTIONARY] that he describes while he's just watching the sun and stars take turns ... the hooked on meth interpretation is probably not the correct one, but it the song rings true in ways I can never deny. | |
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Professional |
#13 by ♠danny♠ at May 5, 1993 at 9:07 AM EST |
| Thanks guys for the explanations - this was another one of the jets songs that has so much floating below the surface that i had missed! i love the line 'with a bag of beer held like the last girl on earth' because it reminds me of one of my friends who takes his drinking really seriously, and won't let anyone touch his beer, but with blake there is a purpose to the serious nature of his drinking - to escape the confusion in his mind. i really like the idea freeformcannon came up with of blake referencing back to the previous album to symbolise writers block in the process of writing the second album. it is hard to imagine someone as talented as blake having difficulty writing, but it is a major theme in his work, giving all the pretenders (myself included) hope! | |
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bigus Average |
#14 by bigus dickus at Jan 18, 1994 at 11:41 PM EST |
| orange rhyming dictionary. thesaurus? | |
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bob Average |
#15 by bob whyte at Aug 20, 1994 at 8:25 AM EST |
| Does anyone else find it curious that the SONG orange rhyming dictionary was released on Four Cornered Night and not Orange Rhyming Dictionary (the album) 1 | |
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CJ Wanna Be |
#16 by CJ West at Dec 26, 1998 at 1:25 AM EST |
| Jets to Brazil are the greatest. Porridge and orange.. pretty close! | |
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chris Average |
#17 by chris at Aug 22, 2000 at 2:15 AM EST |
| nothing rhymes with orange. jets to brazil are amazing. | |
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Abe Lead Player |
#18 by Abe Watson at Apr 17, 2001 at 4:39 PM EST |
| it's generally believed that "orange" is the only monosyllabic word in the english dictionary without a rhyme. (a match) When Blake sings "I got her name from an orange rhyming dictionary, its assumedly a book of blank pages, so maybe he's feeling that he's never going to find his match, this girl that the song is about is more of an ideal. He sees her as an angel, so it comes as a shock when she does something out of character, so I guess to sum it up it's about how one initially feels about someone and then they reach the point of debating whether they should see things realistically or find comfort in illusion. But thats just how I'm feeling right now, I could be way off on this! | |
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Layne Wanna Be |
#19 by Layne Staley at Sep 12, 2006 at 7:18 AM EST |
| About writers block, no? | |
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I fought the la Average |
#20 by I fought the law and the law kicked my ass I never learn do i...?? at Oct 2, 2007 at 8:06 PM EST |
| goddamnit this sounds like the smiths! | |
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