This is one of the easier ones to get. It's all religion. People use religion as a fail-safe for doing things they know they shouldn't, because "he'll spring to life to smile and clear your name." They also use religion for commercialism. Pretty much religion is good, but some people take advantage of it.

I'm not going to post the lyrics for this because it's really easy to get, just from the chorus. Max has already tweeted the correct lyrics too. I just want to point out that while this song is fun and bouncy, it's still not about fun things. It's still about hating everyone, but at the end he says he's a humanist. So even though he hates everyone, he still believes that they can do better. Haha, yeah I did a fun little pun in that last sentence.

This is one of my favorite songs on the record. That doesn't mean it's a million times better than the rest though, because this record makes it really hard to have a favorite. The whole gist of the song is in the chorus, you can always do better. Some of the lines in this are awesome though. "Deborah's messing with your brain." Debra Messing plays Grace in Will and Grace. Word play! Life is "controversial yet mundane" because everyone argues what life is about, but yet everyone is alive (mundane). The first two lines in the 2nd verse are easy, but I don't get the second two yet. Existentialism is pretty much that everyone's life has it's one specific meaning and purpose. Pink eye has no purpose. Ahhhh, get it!?! I really like "guiding Satan's steady hand, forcing beatles to disband..." part, even though it's really easy to decipher. The end is saying that even they could do a lot better.

First thing, this is in the girls perspective. Obviously I think. First verse is her being a whore in college, because she wants to find love. When she finally thinks she finds it, he owns her. The chorus is her being with a guy after him. Even though he may (or may not, it doesn't say) treat her better, she still pines for the douche. Second verse is him being a douche some more. He brags about his awesome band and makes fun of her poetry. She brags about knowing (or having sex with, these two lines are hard) rock stars, and he likes that about her. The last two lines reiterate that she loves and misses him even though he treats her bad. The bridge is her explaining that the new guy isn't as good as the douche. The last verse is the bad guy coming back, and envying the new guy. The last line can either be interpreted as her giving in to the bad dude and going back to him or her finally leaving him forever. Not sure.

Max has already posted the lyrics to this as well, so I won't contribute to the longness of the blog with them. This is the turning point of the album (the previous songs, were about the same girl in IDOTG). He is a girls messiah, turning her problems around, but still has to leave her. On further thought he realizes she was never that much to him, and tells her to let go. "So beautiful, the ugliness within you." Her flaws are what attracted him in the first place. "Just a bloody band-aid" and "just a couple of stupid kids throwing the ball back and forth, just to see who drops it first." show that they were only hiding each others pains. All-in-all it's a mature song about realizing when to let go.

The lyrics for this song have been posted by Max as well. The beginning is him saying that there are much, much worse things going on in the world than your girlfriend breaking up or cheating on you. Yet bands (Kings of Leon) still stick to only writing about that. Then he goes on to say that he's not much worse because he lives his life through a lens of angst and hopelessness. No matter what he does (claim revolutionary, give to charity) everyone will know it's just a cover or excuse for him living like that. Then he almost breaks down realizing how bad what he's doing is, and in comes the spoken word part.

Wait a second, I can't sing the same damn song over and over again.

He tells himself that he can't define himself through destructive emotional vices and shunning everyone else. He can't give up this new state of mind, even if for one second he doesn't believe it. The end is telling everyone else to join him.

Too easy and this is getting long. If you don't know what this song is about, you're probably mildly retarded or deaf

This is, for me, the hardest one on the album. I think the beginning "thought I was alone...old me started to bleed and we became us." Is about him going back to his old ways a little and his wife copying him. I can't really pinpoint every thing that leads me to think it's about people (and/or people in the music scene?) trying to ruin his relationship, but for some reason that's what it seems like. "reading the file on your heart they sought to defile", "I saw the look she gave...(all the way to) she took my hand instead." Mr. Cred, could be his credibility and her telling him it's alright. Her looking at his heart, and seeing that it's good even though people are trying to defile it. She won't follow you could literally mean YOU. Everyone that listens to it. She won't listen to the bad things you say about him.

I think this one is pretty easy, even though a lot of people are going to skip over a lot of the meaning. It's about love and religion. He lost his faith in himself, but his wife restored it along with a whole new religious spirituality. When he faces God, he'll tell him that his wife got him through everything. That's pretty much it for that one.

Max has posted the lyrics for this one too. It's really easy to get, but you have to try to decide whether or not it's sarcasm. People always stupidly agree with what The Futile says, when it's really 100% sarcasm. I'm pretty sure this one is too. He's not going to treat his wife like property. Easy.

In one sentence this song is about the beauty of life, whether or not you can see it. In the beginning he's telling God he wants death because he has everything, and he may enjoy it, but that's not enough. Then he notices everything important in life and says that he'll never go back to thinking that his life is in vain. At the end as he's dying he tells God that he deserves to live because he found out how great and important life is.

This one is also one of the harder ones to get. I think most of it is about the music scene. He's saying he doesn't care what everyone else thinks about his music, even though they think he does. He won't "purchase what you see" or take the advice of other people on what to do with his music. The last verse is about a kid who shunned him, but he got his revenge in meeting him years later when he's a burnout and Max has a huge rock band. I think It's pretty much about how he's proud of his band and how they do things.

Yeaaah, the awesome closer. This song is definitely the hardest to get. Everything I'm going to say about it is tentative. I think the first verse is about the evils of touring. The "writing holy books..." part is about, back to Fed to Death, how man ruins religion through writing our own holy books. The end intense part is a little easier. :"Those who buried bodies..." and onward is I think about the evils of the world and we use them as an example so they don't happen again. They have halocaust museums that display what they've done. But I can't be positive. This one is going to take me a while...