anonymous April 21st, 2006 08:52PM  

I think that this song is about growing up. I think that it is about two best friends getting through life. It is just a song about how beople change during their lifes, starting out as a kid coming back as someone else.

anonymous February 9th, 2007 10:44PM  

my opinion of this song would have to be that in any persons life they go through a period that's not so good better known as a slump , and like in high school during your sophomore year you start to worry about growing up and how life will turn out , so you kind of get depressed because your not shure what life has in store for you .
the lyrics clearly state are we growing up or just going down , [ are we becoming anything or not ]
which ties into the whole thing about if there album will be good or will it just suck

DiSeNcHaNtEd_DrEaMeR June 10th, 2007 01:50PM  

I think the 6th interpretation is very good because it's so detailed. I love the line "we're the therapists pumping through your speakers, delivering just what you need" because to me, their music is a therapy and a way of chilling out if I'm feeling down. whatever, it rocks!

peteinmypants July 2nd, 2007 08:57PM  

I think the song kind of goes with the title. I finally figured the title out though. See, From Under The Cork Tree was their second real album they hoped would be big. But they feared they wouldn't do so well, also know as a sophomore slump. They are saying they are either going to hit it big, or not at all.

anonymous August 7th, 2007 02:42AM  

This song has a lot of sarcastic undertones that I think a lot of people just don't get. For instance, when Patrick is singing about them being "well read and poised... The best boys", its a sarcastic line. They go on to say "I'll keep singing this lie if you keep believing it" I think this song goes way over most peoples heads.

anonymous August 10th, 2007 01:26PM  

Agree with t9im2m3y, but also, when I was at a concert, he said this before they played this song: "You know, when we were all kids in high school, people made fun of us. They called us losers, faggots, homos, and emos. But now, they're coming to our f*king shows, buying our f*cking CDs, and singing our F*cking music. This song goes out to you." so maybe, it's about how they were underdogs in their high school but now its a comeback.

Wildwest814 January 28th, 2008 07:24PM  

Yeah I think it's about growing up, being a teenager and wishing you could be youth again, but they also reassure you by saying that their music can help you through it all

sophomore slump = sophomore year of high school
well...thats what I think anyway

anonymous January 19th, 2009 01:36PM  

I know some people may not agree with me, but this song just left an impact on me I can't ignore. In my eyes, it seems that the song is about the "slump" that someone goes through, and the emotional support that someone who cares for the person is and is willing to provide for him or her.
I have identified with the lyrics as follows:
"Are we growing up, or just going down
It's just a matter of time until we're all found out"
-are we maturing and becoming emotionally stable adults, or are we just losing it more and more. Are we becoming so miserable we'll never be able to rise from the ashes? Despite the fact that we do our best to hide out feelings, people will find out about it soon enough.
"take your tears;put them on ice.
'Cause I swear, I'd burn the city down to show you the light."
-The second person is telling the one in the "slump" to stop crying and to please stop with his or her misery, because the second person will do anything to make the first person be happy.
"We're the therapists pumping through your speakers
delivering just what you need"
-The second person is saying he or she is and will listen to person A and help him or her through his or her problems
"We're well read and poised. We're the best boys"
-I'm the one you want to talk to.
"We're the chemists who found the formula to make your heart swell and burst. No matter what they say, don't believe a word."
-I know you and know how to help you. But the people that make you unhappy- don't listen to them. They don't know anything.
" 'cause I'll keep singing this lie if you'll keep believing it. I'll keep singing this lie. I'll keep singing this lie."
-I'll say whatever you need to make you happy no matter what. Just trust me.
" We're traveled like gypsies only with worse luck and far less gold"
-We have been through a lot, and I know we have been unlucky, and that it has left you weak and weary.
"We're the kids you used to love, but then we grew old."
-We used to be so close, but we've gotten older and lost our childlike innocence.
" We're the lifers until the bitter end- condemned from the start"
-I know we're stuck a crappy and miserable situation.
"ashamed of the way the songs and the words own the beating of our hearts"
-we're ashamed of how other people have control of our emotions so much.
" there's a drug in a thermostat to warm the room up and there's another around to help us bend your trust. I got a sunset in my veins and I need to take a pill to make this town feel okay "
-We both have to dillude ourselves to feel some kind of happiness here.
"The best part of "believe" is the "lie". I hope you sing along and you steal a line. I need to keep you like this in my mind.
- The best part of believing in something, is the lie I'm telling you that you are believing. I hope you catch on and can do the same for me.
"So give in or just give up"
-We are stuck here in this horrible situation, so just believe the lies I tell you for your own good, or finally give up on life. No matter what, it's your final decision.

anonymous March 10th, 2009 06:14PM  

Ok so i could write an interpretation for the whole song but i won't. it's basically just talking about what everyone here has said before, how being a teenager in high school can either really suck or be really great. The lyric "We're the chemists who've found the formula to make your heart swell and burst. no matter what they say, don't believe a word." caught my attention I think they're talking to girls from a guy's point of view. There saying guys have somehow figured out how to make girls fall in love, like it's a natural born talent they all possess. They're warning girls that no matter what the guys say, don't always believe them because they may just as well be lying. it relates to to the next lines "I'll keep singing this lie if you'll keep believing it."