"And she says, why didn't"...What's Sean saying?

Harvey Winters · Post by **Harvey Winters** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 2:40 pm

"And she says why didn't it happen between us"?
("Would have I? Some where worse off than I knoooooooow")????

I'm not sure, and I'm getting no help from the CD booklet
(even though they put

"it's about time we took a ride"

in there...)

Anyone?
Please?

Rich

mildlyrestarted · Post by **mildlyrestarted** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 3:12 pm

i've always been curious as to what sean's lyrics are in stupid's chorus, too.

do tell!

NatureBoy · Post by **NatureBoy** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 4:49 pm

I thought it went like this:

John sings in the foreground: ...she said why didn't it happen between us...

Sean sings underneath: ...how stupid I would feel if I....

Then both together: Stupid...

But I could be (and probably am) wrong.

the hutch · Post by **the hutch** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 6:21 pm

yeah, it sounds like what you mentioned three times there to me too.

what annoys me in the insert is in the lyriics to Shapes, "fools (Russian) where i fear to tread..." surely not

the hutch · Post by **the hutch** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 6:24 pm

i would like to say for the record that i posted twice just to make nature boy feel better, not because i am a nincompoop.

Unremarkable · Post by **Unremarkable** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 7:08 pm

no pic wrote:i would like to say for the record that i posted twice just to make nature boy feel better, not because i am a nincompoop.

Nincompoop? Way to make him feel better

the hutch · Post by **the hutch** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 8:26 pm

i believe i was referring to myself, as i actually did not intend to post twice. nincompoops unite

Burning Bride #7 · Post by **Burning Bride #7** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 8:52 pm

"Nincompoop" is just a great all-around word; you get three different and meaningful meanings out of it: one... 'NIN', i.e. the Nine Inch Nails; two... 'COM', I won't go there/for obvious reasons; and three... 'POOP', which is easily self-explanitory. Ah, what a great word.

I don't know why I thought of those three things when I saw the word, but I felt I needed to write about it anyway.

the hutch · Post by **the hutch** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 6:38 am

the nin part makes me think of ninny.

it's a word you say but never write-i thought it looked funny when i put it down.

inverted/converted · Post by **inverted/converted** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 11:59 am

"Ninny", that word is hilarious. Now call someone a ninny outloud and record their reaction!

the hutch · Post by **the hutch** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 1:30 pm

i'm fairly desensitized to it at this point...

Harvey Winters · Post by **Harvey Winters** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 5:26 am

Back to the subect at hand:

For I while, I thought it was

"Stupid, for sayin' g'bye"

Makes sense, don't it?

The long one at the end, is baffling.
I tried reading Sean's lips at the last show I attended,
but there was nothing printed on them.....

Harvey Winters · Post by **Harvey Winters** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 12:49 pm

Any one?
Any help?

LoveSickJerk · Post by **LoveSickJerk** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 7:48 am

I think the first few are just "stupid i would feel if I..." Im pretty certain about that (I'm pretty all the time, actually).

While the last one is "If i was somewhere else i would not have her."
or "If i was somewhere else I would not be here." Though, I'm not altogether certain on the veracity of the last one. Perhaps we could get some help...................

Post by **Liesbeth** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 12:11 pm

LoveSickJerk wrote:I think the first few are just "stupid i would feel if I..." Im pretty certain about that

although hearing it on the record I'd say so too, live it seemed more like "stupid... why the hell did I", or something like that.
And for the record, I'm absolutely uncertain about that.

Perhaps we could get some help..................

those guys are laughing at us, I'm sure!
oh well, let's just bravely say it's good to have some mystery left, eh?

Harvey Winters · Post by **Harvey Winters** » Fri Jan 02, 2004 3:00 pm

It was like that w/"The band from the before time" too...

There are still undeciphered lyrics over there...

I still don't know what a "secret Sharon Tate film" is....

-"It puts the needle on the record, it does this whenever it's told"

Post by **John** » Fri Jan 02, 2004 7:17 pm

The 'secret Sharon Tate film...' line was one of my harmony parts in Harvey Danger, so I sang it every night. He explained it to me but I don't remember wha ti twas, except that it was dirty.

And I have no idea what he's singing in Stupid either.

Harvey Winters · Post by **Harvey Winters** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 3:07 pm

John wrote:
And I have no idea what he's singing in Stupid either.

"That's a LIE, Pee-Wee"-Captain Karl

meg · Post by **meg** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 9:07 pm

Last week I took this song to the car sing-a-long test, which is a sort of thing where I turn up the album and sit up as straight as I can and drive around making up harmonies when there aren't any and wrecking them when there are...any. My attempt at the "Stupid" harmony-lyrics led to: "she said! mleeegafhaa! whaaa! youhavenowaaaahhhh!"

And you can take that to the bank. I sounded f'in awesome, people.

Post by **Liesbeth** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 1:01 pm

WIPTF, the car sessions!
you'll surely be bringing a lot of money to the bank, Meg

I remember John saying the bus on their European tour had no stereo or radio, so they had to sing themselves.