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D F# Bm
Now its years since your body went flat and even memories of that
G D
are all think and dull, all gravel and glass. But who needs them
F# Bm G
now -- displaced they're easily more safe -- the worst of it now: I
D
can't remember your face.
Please...
D G
Return.
D F# Bm
For a while, with the vertigo cured, we were alive -- we were pure.
G D
The void took the shape of all that you were, but years take their
F# Bm G
toll, and things get bent into shape... Antiseptic and tired, I can't
D
remember your face.
Please...
D G
Return.
D G D
You were supposed to grow old. Reckless, unfrightened, and old,
D
you were supposed to grow old.
D G D
Return. You were supposed to return.
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Sawyer Rhythm Player |
#1 by Sawyer Hildebrandt at Apr 6, 1970 at 6:43 PM EST |
| I love this song. There's something haunting about it. The first time I heard it, I thought that it was likely inspired by something tragic. The death of a friend makes perfect sense, whether it was suicide or accidental death. OK Go continues to impress me. | |
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Thomas Average |
#2 by Thomas Reuter at Sep 26, 1970 at 10:56 AM EST |
| Didn't know this song had anything to do with suicide.. but it's still my fav song on that cd | |
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Daron Average |
#3 by Daron Malakian at Oct 11, 1971 at 12:58 PM EST |
| "For a while, with the vertigo cured, we were alive -- we were pure. The void took the shape of all that you were" | |
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Kenny Lead Player |
#4 by Kenny Berg at Feb 12, 1974 at 9:14 PM EST |
| I heard somewhere that if a song makes you shiver, then it's a good song. This song makes me shiver everytime I here it. | |
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eric was here Professional Badass |
#5 by eric was here at Mar 25, 1974 at 4:23 PM EST |
| this song is about damian's friend, timmery, who committed suicide. also, the tattoo of a star on his arm has a "T" inside it for her. this is my favorite OKgo song. | |
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phil Wanna Be |
#6 by phil taylor at Oct 18, 1974 at 6:55 PM EST |
| I knew it was about someones death/ or suicide but thanks for telling us the real deal Statbucksbabe28. yeah my fave part is..."the worst of it now: I can't remember your face." and "You were supposed to grow old" i agree this song hits and u and ur just like "wow" i get chills when i hear "u were supposed to grow old" plus this band is amazing very talented and original | |
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claireus Wanna Be |
#7 by claireus s at Dec 2, 1976 at 5:52 AM EST |
| I just heard a song that reminded me of my sister Timory, so I googled her. She was indeed a good friend of Damien's and fell out of a window at a party on (not for) her birthday. I'd like to set something striaght. She did not commit suicide. We were very close and I can say with assurance that she was a very positive person and a fighter. I saw the window she fell from and talked to numerous eye witnesses, and heard from the poor fellow she pulled out with her as she tried to maintain her balance. She was also a very accomplished musician and singer. I suspect you'd know her name as well had she not died before her time. Oh, and I agree that the song is beautiful. Ted Leo also wrote a song about her called "Timmorous me." You may not take my word for it, but if two people like that write a song about a girl, you know she must of been something special. (coincedentally I knew Ted in college and he met my sister through his brother completely independantly of me - in fact he didn't know she and I were related until after she died). | |
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spence Average |
#8 by spence o'brien at Dec 19, 1982 at 1:22 AM EST |
| I thought it was about someone who died A compelling song. :) | |
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† james † Average |
#9 by † james † at Oct 3, 1983 at 12:23 PM EST |
| this song is amazing. "you were supposed to grow old" is just one of those lines that leave you speachless. statbucksbabe28, thanks for the info on the song, i always suspected that it was about somebody who had died, but i never knew who. | |
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Derek Average |
#10 by Derek Mayfield at Oct 27, 1984 at 10:15 AM EST |
| "Yeah, this song is about Timory Hyde, a good friend of the singer, Damian, and mine. She fell out of a third-story window on her birthday. She was at a party, leaning against a window, and a friend came up to her and gave her a big hug. The window gave out and they fell 3 stories to the driveway. The friend lived, she did not. That song tears me to pieces, esp. when Damian sings 'You were supposed to grow old.'" | |
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Derek Average |
#11 by Derek Lamberty at Jun 10, 1988 at 11:07 PM EST |
| I feel like if me and my boyfriend broke up, and a few years later i'd be thinking them things about him. about how you were supposed to grow old, and return, and how ya can't remeber his face. | |
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JUSTIN Lead Player |
#12 by JUSTIN LOCKHART at Dec 23, 1988 at 3:20 AM EST |
| nhyde, Timory was your sister?! i feel so sad for you. And i know Damian misses her too since he has a tattoo on his arm which is a T inside a star. This song is so sad now that i know what it's about. i have the recording of Last December on my computer and let me tell you, Timory had an AMAZING voice. and i agree with Damian, she was supposed to grow old. | |
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ryan Average |
#13 by ryan oh at Jun 13, 1989 at 12:50 PM EST |
| when correy told me it was about suicide it all made sense. it's sad to begin with (the song that is) but that makes it twice as sad. the "i can't remember your face" and "you were supposed to grow old/return" so poigant and it just plucks at your heart strings! | |
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Venti Average |
#14 by Venti at Dec 27, 1990 at 2:05 PM EST |
| i'm not sure the falling out of a window thing really makes sense? sounds kind of made up. suicide i can understand. i dunno. it really does give me shivers. i'll have to look it up | |
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dalton Average |
#15 by dalton hoffman at Dec 15, 1992 at 5:39 PM EST |
| This song actually IS about Damian's friend who fell out of a third-story window (as if onemessedzebra's quote didn't prove that.) She went to Brown with him and her parents created a scholarship in memory of her. Here's an obituary for the skeptics: "Timory Hyde '98, Providence; April 19, of injuries suffered in an accidental fall from an apartment window. A music concentrator, she played the flute, guitar, and piano, and wrote folk songs." Other songs about her are okgo's T's Song, and Ted Leo & The Pharmacists' Timorous Me. | |
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Kyle Average |
#16 by Kyle Lester at Mar 21, 1997 at 7:23 AM EST |
| Yeah, I knew this song was about Damian's friend who committed suicide. She was only 21 I believe. Hence the "you were supposed to grow old" line. I love that line so much. It makes me feel a lot. | |
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#17 by Guitar FrE@k Freak at Oct 14, 2002 at 12:41 AM EST |
| the line i love so damn much in this song is "and the worst of it now: I can't remember your face".. the way damian kulash sings this... just so overwhelming! | |
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Darren Wanna Be |
#18 by Darren Pilton at Jun 19, 2004 at 5:55 AM EST |
| i thought it was about someone who had died, and you all have confirmed this | |
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mike Rhythm Player |
#19 by mike jordan at Mar 11, 2006 at 2:09 AM EST |
| thats deep man. i think my favorite line on this song is "return, you were supposed to return" dis is totally 1 of my favorite okgo songz tho | |
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