I choked up a little last night, for the first time, upon hearing the "as I walked out on the ledge" part in Still Breathing. It was a little random but it just hit me. Goddammit this band!
I don't think it's an actual expression or phrase (unless I've just not heard it), but it's pretty much a metaphor for "I could be in the grave but I'm not". Like, rain falling on the flowers laid on the grave and his head's above it because he's not there.
I desperately want to send Still Breathing back to 2012 me. She really, really needed to know that this song was going to happen some day, and this song is seriously just so warm and comforting. Makes me want to hug the dude who wrote it.
Every time I listen to it, I can't help but think, "Yeah, we've made through some shit, haven't we?"
I haven't got any good new ones yet, but I would like to say that the line "'Cause we're all bloody freaks and we'll give you the creeps" in Bouncing Off the Wall makes up for the fact that it doesn't say "it's pretty bloody sad" (really "but it's sad") in Favourite Son. I forgive them.
I'm so glad they chose Bang Bang as their first single.
Also, in Still Breathing when he sings "I dodged a bullet and I walked across a land mine" his voice gets so incredibly soft . That song means everything.
I thought "the leading man in my own private drama" was actually "the little man in my own private drama".
Guess they shouldn't have hired me to edit that official lyrics video
I thought Billie was just being Billie and was shouting gibberish, maybe something about food (I'm pretty sure I heard a 'jello' there).
Speaking of Rusty James: 'foggy knives and rusty chains.'
EDIT: I just remembered. G-L-O-R-I-A "The jello hard I ate." Billie's attempt at Yoda-speak, ladies and gentlemen.