take a day, plant some trees!? - Page 2

FutureEmbrace · 07-20-2005, 05:11 AM

The live version from Atlanta '98 is awesome. Amazing guitarsolos. Still the album version is better though.

sniffingchimp · 07-20-2005, 05:41 AM

You are so incredibly wrong about this.... Blank Page (and especially the line you mentioned) is amazing lyrically... The image that line conjures up is just heartbreaking.

'|' jIMMY '|' · 07-20-2005, 06:49 AM

:erm
uhmmm... wtf?!

bozo · 07-20-2005, 06:52 AM

Fat Cop · 07-20-2005, 07:33 AM

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Originally posted by spank_thru101
Yeah I know there have been a million posts on stupid lyrics that Mr. Corgan has sung over the years but this line (from Blank Page...which is a decent song) I have always felt was the worst.

I think you're wrong.

That single passage kills me.

Hey what lyrics could you come up with instead then?

TriHell · 07-20-2005, 08:04 AM

Where he says, "You are forgotten" somewhere near the end, I thought for the longest time he said, "You Awful Goddess", so the moment I found out I had misheard I put the line into one of my songs. I get a lot of my lyrics that way. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, the line really is, "take a day, plant some trees"...

Here's a suggestion:

Hit the hay, paint my knees

...Think about it.

georgesbush · 07-20-2005, 08:16 AM

I like planting trees

mirrar · 07-20-2005, 08:30 AM

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Originally posted by Firefly

spank_thru101 has a courtney love avatar, what do you expect?

yeah i was gonna say, they're in no position to complain with a hole avatar.

COG · 07-20-2005, 11:39 AM

I like the live version from 98 better, but I guess I'm in the minority. Hmm, I think I'm gonna listen to my 3 disc, adore live album now.

sniffingchimp · 07-20-2005, 11:42 AM

I'm with you there, the live version kicks the hell out of the album one - especially Atlanta 98. I was'nt fond of the lounge room Machina version though. Kinda cheesy.

neopryn · 07-20-2005, 12:22 PM

that adore tour version just strips it of all the haunting beauty and makes it another for martha. i mean i still like it but it's got nothing on the original.
the machina one blows though.

spank_thru101 · 07-22-2005, 03:47 PM

ok...let me backtrack and say this, I love Adore, I adore Adore. It is the album that I listen to the most but I just don't think that line conjures up any great images (same can be said about this verse : "got dressed, drove the state line
looking for you at the five and dime
stop sign told me stay at home
told me you were not alone" but thats for another thread on another day...) but if these lyrics are genius and I am just not getting it then one of you mensa card carrying members explain to me the signifigance of "take a day, plant some trees".

Quiet · 07-22-2005, 03:53 PM

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Originally posted by spank_thru101
but if these lyrics are genius and I am just not getting it then one of you mensa card carrying members explain to me the signifigance of "take a day, plant some trees".

It doesn't take a mensa member to realize that you have to look at the passage as a whole to see how great it is... I agree, that one individual line is pretty simplistic, but when you look at what comes after it, it sounds great.

davin · 07-22-2005, 06:59 PM

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Originally posted by Quiet

You're taking that one line out of context though... you're not looking at the complete thought, which I think is one of the best things he has ever written. There's really nothing "pretentious" about it at all... your use of the word in your post makes me wonder if you even know what it means. I'm sure you could take individual lines out of almost any great historic speech and make the speaker look like an idiot.

Correct-a-mundo!!

Ugly · 07-22-2005, 07:13 PM

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Originally posted by Shapan

ive only heard a live version of it off the sacred and profane tour, just billy. i can imagine that solo would be pretty cool, billy is a very underrated guitarist.

Well, today's yer lucky day, then! (and everyone else who hasn't heard this version. FM sourced from Atlanta '98. 9 minutes long. woot.)

http://s16.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3...02XSQ638ML0DNE

Quiet CD · 07-22-2005, 07:43 PM

that could be some of Billy's best lyrics ever, that whole song, and especially those lines together at the end are representative of such a moving and large notion (or concept) and you obviously missed out on...

spank_thru101 · 07-22-2005, 09:55 PM

well then what is it, apparently I missed out on it but not a single one of you have yet to even give a glimpse of insight onto what it means...if you haven't started second guessing yourself yet now is the time to start, otherwise give a valid response.

Eulogy · 07-23-2005, 01:38 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by spank_thru101
well then what is it, apparently I missed out on it but not a single one of you have yet to even give a glimpse of insight onto what it means...if you haven't started second guessing yourself yet now is the time to start, otherwise give a valid response.

THE NEXT LINE IS 'MAY THEY SHADE YOU FROM ME'

fuck you.

TuralyonW3 · 07-23-2005, 04:34 AM

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Originally posted by *************

holy hell. play some marijuana plants. is that why you're so stupid, because you're always smokin' the chron dawg? the reefer? the green? you know billy wasn't smoking the chron at that time. there's no way it was about the reefer. stop smoking it, moron. it's killed all your brain cells.

You've never been high have you?

COG · 07-23-2005, 11:49 AM

Their very similar to many of Billy's lyrics in the sense that they paint an emotion using lyrics, you can feel what he is trying to say, even when he uses only abstract metaphores and symbolism.

blank page was all the rage
never meant to say anything
in bed I was half dead
tired of dreaming of rest

got dressed, drove the state line
looking for you at the five and dime
stop sign told me stay at home
told me you were not alone

blank page was all the rage
never meant to hurt anyone
in bed I was half dead
tired of dreaming of rest

you haven't changed, you're still the same
may you rise as you fall

you were easy, you are forgotten
you are the ways of my mistakes

I catch the rainfall through the leaking roof
that you had left behind
you remind me of that leak in my soul

the rain falls, my friends call
leaking rain on the phone

take a day, plant some trees
may they shade you from me
may your children play beneath

blank page was all the rage
never meant to say anything
in bed I was half dead
tired of dreaming of rest

got dressed, drove the state line
looking for you at the five and dime
but there I was picking pieces up
you are a ghost of my indecision
no more, little girl

spank_thru101 · 07-23-2005, 12:02 PM

you must of thought real hard to come up with that one......don't stress those brain cells to much as they might pop.

redbreegull · 07-23-2005, 12:11 PM

Since the song is about his ex wife, I would say that "Take a day, plant some trees, may they shade you from me" is telling her to rebuild her life without him in such a way that he cannot get in.

Yeah, really, these are great lyrics, fuck you.

COG · 07-23-2005, 12:16 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by redbreegull
Since the song is about his ex wife, I would say that "Take a day, plant some trees, may they shade you from me" is telling her to rebuild her life without him in such a way that he cannot get in.

Yeah, really, these are great lyrics, fuck you.

You have ruined our fun, it was better when we knew a secret and he didn't.

spank_thru101 · 07-23-2005, 01:05 PM

how do you know the song is about his ex wife, can you give us a link to an article, an interview, a qoute, an audio clip etc...

Even so I still think that this line blows and that he could have used some better words...he sounds like he is hawking an ad for the aurbor day foundation.

spank_thru101 · 07-23-2005, 01:11 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by COG

You have ruined our fun, it was better when we knew a secret and he didn't.

I see that you are trying to cover your ass, hoping people will be fooled into thinking that you knew this all along when in fact your closest revelation about the song was that it could sync up with your favorite shemale porno video while you masturbate to thoughts of Billys bald head grazing your scrotum.

COG · 07-23-2005, 01:28 PM

Dude, what is your problem? I think it is rather obvious that it is about regret and past mistakes. Running from the past, things like that. Read the lyrics.

Eulogy · 07-23-2005, 02:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by spank_thru101
you must of thought

yeah, he really must of.

fuck off and die. seriously. your life is not worth living.

spank_thru101 · 07-23-2005, 06:04 PM

and yours is...I'll admitt that my existance is average at best but then again your ass has been trolling these boards longer than me and that prolly means that the greatest accomplisment that you will ever achieve will be finding a cleaner to get the cheeto and semen stains off your keyboard.

daydreamer999 · 07-23-2005, 07:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by spank_thru101
well...I personally don't mind the lyrics that lead up to that line or follow it, but c'mon..."take a day plant some trees" I think he could have come up with something a bit better. Quit trying to pretend that you are pretentious enough to accept those lyrics as genius.

do you even know what pretentious means?

DeviousJ · 07-23-2005, 08:23 PM

Oh man I'm loving this board these days

07-20-2005, 06:52 AM	#34
bozo Pledge Posts: 248	i'd go as far as to say IT FUCKS UP THE ENTIRE SONG

07-20-2005, 05:11 AM	#31
FutureEmbrace Amish Rake Fighter Location: DK Posts: 13	The live version from Atlanta '98 is awesome. Amazing guitarsolos. Still the album version is better though.

07-20-2005, 05:41 AM	#32
sniffingchimp Ownz Posts: 771	You are so incredibly wrong about this.... Blank Page (and especially the line you mentioned) is amazing lyrically... The image that line conjures up is just heartbreaking.

07-20-2005, 06:49 AM	#33
'\|' jIMMY '\|' Apocalyptic Poster Location: The Philippines Posts: 1,487	:erm uhmmm... wtf?!

07-20-2005, 08:04 AM	#36
TriHell Pledge Posts: 119	Where he says, "You are forgotten" somewhere near the end, I thought for the longest time he said, "You Awful Goddess", so the moment I found out I had misheard I put the line into one of my songs. I get a lot of my lyrics that way. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, the line really is, "take a day, plant some trees"... Here's a suggestion: Hit the hay, paint my knees ...Think about it.

07-20-2005, 08:16 AM	#37
georgesbush Pledge Posts: 55	I like planting trees

07-20-2005, 11:39 AM	#39
COG Apocalyptic Poster Location: At the scene of the crime, looking for clues Posts: 2,437	I like the live version from 98 better, but I guess I'm in the minority. Hmm, I think I'm gonna listen to my 3 disc, adore live album now.

07-20-2005, 11:42 AM	#40
sniffingchimp Ownz Posts: 771	I'm with you there, the live version kicks the hell out of the album one - especially Atlanta 98. I was'nt fond of the lounge room Machina version though. Kinda cheesy.

07-20-2005, 12:22 PM	#41
neopryn let's see your penis! Location: i had a few beers, but i'm cool to drive Posts: 31,847	that adore tour version just strips it of all the haunting beauty and makes it another for martha. i mean i still like it but it's got nothing on the original. the machina one blows though.

07-22-2005, 03:47 PM	#42
spank_thru101 Ownz Location: In a van down by the river Posts: 523	ok...let me backtrack and say this, I love Adore, I adore Adore. It is the album that I listen to the most but I just don't think that line conjures up any great images (same can be said about this verse : "got dressed, drove the state line looking for you at the five and dime stop sign told me stay at home told me you were not alone" but thats for another thread on another day...) but if these lyrics are genius and I am just not getting it then one of you mensa card carrying members explain to me the signifigance of "take a day, plant some trees".

07-22-2005, 07:43 PM	#46
Quiet CD Apocalyptic Poster Location: wherever you aren't Posts: 3,239	that could be some of Billy's best lyrics ever, that whole song, and especially those lines together at the end are representative of such a moving and large notion (or concept) and you obviously missed out on...

07-22-2005, 09:55 PM	#47
spank_thru101 Ownz Location: In a van down by the river Posts: 523	well then what is it, apparently I missed out on it but not a single one of you have yet to even give a glimpse of insight onto what it means...if you haven't started second guessing yourself yet now is the time to start, otherwise give a valid response.

07-23-2005, 11:49 AM	#50
COG Apocalyptic Poster Location: At the scene of the crime, looking for clues Posts: 2,437	Their very similar to many of Billy's lyrics in the sense that they paint an emotion using lyrics, you can feel what he is trying to say, even when he uses only abstract metaphores and symbolism. blank page was all the rage never meant to say anything in bed I was half dead tired of dreaming of rest got dressed, drove the state line looking for you at the five and dime stop sign told me stay at home told me you were not alone blank page was all the rage never meant to hurt anyone in bed I was half dead tired of dreaming of rest you haven't changed, you're still the same may you rise as you fall you were easy, you are forgotten you are the ways of my mistakes I catch the rainfall through the leaking roof that you had left behind you remind me of that leak in my soul the rain falls, my friends call leaking rain on the phone take a day, plant some trees may they shade you from me may your children play beneath blank page was all the rage never meant to say anything in bed I was half dead tired of dreaming of rest got dressed, drove the state line looking for you at the five and dime but there I was picking pieces up you are a ghost of my indecision no more, little girl

07-23-2005, 12:02 PM	#51
spank_thru101 Ownz Location: In a van down by the river Posts: 523	you must of thought real hard to come up with that one......don't stress those brain cells to much as they might pop.

07-23-2005, 12:11 PM	#52
redbreegull Just Hook it to My Veins! Location: N3t4Euh Haus Posts: 32,753	Since the song is about his ex wife, I would say that "Take a day, plant some trees, may they shade you from me" is telling her to rebuild her life without him in such a way that he cannot get in. Yeah, really, these are great lyrics, fuck you.

07-23-2005, 01:05 PM	#54
spank_thru101 Ownz Location: In a van down by the river Posts: 523	how do you know the song is about his ex wife, can you give us a link to an article, an interview, a qoute, an audio clip etc... Even so I still think that this line blows and that he could have used some better words...he sounds like he is hawking an ad for the aurbor day foundation.

07-23-2005, 01:28 PM	#56
COG Apocalyptic Poster Location: At the scene of the crime, looking for clues Posts: 2,437	Dude, what is your problem? I think it is rather obvious that it is about regret and past mistakes. Running from the past, things like that. Read the lyrics.

07-23-2005, 06:04 PM	#58
spank_thru101 Ownz Location: In a van down by the river Posts: 523	and yours is...I'll admitt that my existance is average at best but then again your ass has been trolling these boards longer than me and that prolly means that the greatest accomplisment that you will ever achieve will be finding a cleaner to get the cheeto and semen stains off your keyboard.

07-23-2005, 08:23 PM	#60
DeviousJ CORNFROST Location: GUREITO DESU YO Posts: 24,888	Oh man I'm loving this board these days