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weddingbeaches May 12 2010, 18:27:39 UTC
Oh my god, the lyrics to Suburban Decay are AMAZING!!!! I'm definitely about to rip the demo version off of youtube, it's that awesome. I especially like the lines And now we run among the jackals and undead, Bleeding what's left of this city dry. Not necessarily in a tinhatty way, I just really like that imagery.

I also have no idea what Better Than That might be about (obviously), but I definitely think Everybody Wants To Rule the World would be perfect here. I've always thought that a lot of the lines in that song mirror what Kradam have been going through really well. Like, Acting on your best behaviour and Help me make the most//Of freedom and of pleasure and of course There's a room where the light won't find you//Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down//When they do I'll be right behind you. When I heard Kris covering this song for the first time I totally flipped out. Like, the whole 'room where the light won't find you' thing is such a great metaphor for being in the closet and the whole thing with their PR and the ( ... )

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danajsparks May 12 2010, 18:35:35 UTC
Yes I know. I think the two times that Kris sang EWTRTW were during a time when he was becoming especially frustrated with his management. It was just around the same time that he showed us the photo of his ring.

I have this tinhatty theory that these three singles weren't released because TPTB had some "issues" with the lyrics in the songs.

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