Archive for April, 2007

let’s dissect a song, shall we?

Split Screen Sadness by John Mayer 

And I don’t know where you went when you left me but
Says here in the water you must be gone by now
I can tell somehow

(The water can talk? or rather someone from the water talked? seriously though. how can he tell?)
One hand on the trigger of a telephone
Wonderin’ when the call comes

(He’s probably waiting for a call. duh. does a telephone have a trigger? or is it shaped like a gun?)
Where you say it’s alright
You got your heart right

(Frankly, I don’t know what that line means. maybe he used it coz it rhymes?)

Maybe I’ll sleep inside my coat and
Wait on your porch ‘till you come back home

(Wow. romantic…not! he’ll get pneumonia)
Oh, right
I can’t find a flight

(Once again…This just rhymes. Flight? What flight? So you guys actually live a state apart? Wtf? So it’s good then that you guys broke up.)

We share the sadness
Split screen sadness

(Anybody care to explain what split screen sadness means? Or is it because of alliteration that he used this term? But dang, it sound good.)

Two wrongs make it all alright tonight
Two wrongs make it all alright tonight
Two wrongs make it all alright tonight
Two wrongs make it all alright tonight
(John Mayer is a genius! He is actually talking about two negative integers. Add them up then you’ll get a positive sum. How f*cked up is that? Lol)

“All you need is love” is a lie ’cause
We had a love but we still said goodbye

(This is true. Even if love is true, there are couples who still break up. I’d say all you need is some sense, right?)
Now we’re tired, battered fighters

(Hmmm…they must be very physical when they fight, yes? Flying plates, vases and everything…)

And it stings when it nobody’s fault cause there’s
Nothing to blame

(Yeah, so true. If one or both parties fall out of love then neither is at fault. Falling out of love is human nature.)

At the drop of your name (he just used this line so it could rhyme with the other)
It’s only the air you took and the breath you left (*confused* Should it be the air you breath and the air you left or to put it more appropriately, the carbon dioxide you left? Get your lyrics straight Mr. Mayer)

So maybe I’ll sleep inside my coat and
Wait on your porch ’til you come back home

(Are we back here again? Say it with me…pneumonia)
Oh, right
I can’t find a flight (*rolls eyes* I give up…)

So I’ll check the weather wherever you are
Cause I wanna know if you can see the stars tonight
It might be my only right

(He needs a good lawyer.)

We share the sadness
(two wrongs make it all alright tonight)
Split screen sadness
(two wrongs make it all alright tonight)
We share the sadness
(two wrongs make it all alright tonight)
Split screen sadness
(two wrongs make it all alright tonight)

I called
because
I just
Need to feel you on the line (phone s**?! Ew!!!!!)
Don’t hang up this time (you go girl! this guy is a pervert!)
And I know it was me who called it over (it was you?! That is so like murder suicide!)

But I still wish you’d fought me ‘til Your dying day
Don’t let me get away (He needed a lawyer, now he needs a shrink? So that’s why that girl dumped him! He’s too high maintenance. If you decide to end things with someone, don’t expect them to crawl in a dark corner and wait until you sort things out with yourself!)

Cause I can’t wait to figure out what’s wrong with me (talk to a shrink)
So I can say ‘this is the way that I used to be (oh. Wow. He makes sense now.)
There’s no substitute for time
Or for the sadness (I agree!)
(two wrongs make it all alright tonight)
Split screen sadness
(two wrongs make it all alright tonight)
We share the sadness
(two wrongs make it all alright tonight)
Split screen sadness
(two wrongs make it all alright tonight)
Oh and the sadness
It’s alright, it’s alright
Oh and the sadness
It’s alright, it’s alright
Oh and the sadness
It’s alright, it’s alright

Overall rating for this song is 5 stars out of 5. I am absolutely smitten with it. If it appears as if i’m criticizing it, it was Mariefel’s doing. That retard took over my body again!