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The booklet has to be wrong, at least with a part of Forever Now.

According to the lyrics, the song goes "Don't want to think about tomorrow, Don't want to think about it, ooooooh" but I swear to God that I hear a word there, I swear it is "Don't want to think about the XXXXX". I have no idea what word is that, but I have no doubt that Billie doesn't say just "it oooooooh", or else I will have to visit a doctor to check my hearing.

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3 hours ago, pucky said:

The booklet has to be wrong, at least with a part of Forever Now.

According to the lyrics, the song goes "Don't want to think about tomorrow, Don't want to think about it, ooooooh" but I swear to God that I hear a word there, I swear it is "Don't want to think about the XXXXX". I have no idea what word is that, but I have no doubt that Billie doesn't say just "it oooooooh", or else I will have to visit a doctor to check my hearing.

I believe he doesn't utter the word on purpose. He covers it with "oooh" instead because he doesn't want to think about that and it doesn't matter anyway, simple as. There's no way he's singing "about it", so I've come up with this interpretation. The burden of thinking about what that thing could possibly be is left on the listener as he shrewdly slinks away from it. Very subtle and smart if you ask me :P

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14 hours ago, abbey_the_weird said:

Back when Uno came out, I showed one of my friends the entire album. We got to sweet 16 and she looked at me with confusion and a little concern. When I asked her what was wrong, she said to me 'did he just say "sweet sex thing?" and now I can't (or don't want to) hear it any other way because of how much it made me laugh 

:lol: no wonder she was upset 

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15 hours ago, abbey_the_weird said:

Back when Uno came out, I showed one of my friends the entire album. We got to sweet 16 and she looked at me with confusion and a little concern. When I asked her what was wrong, she said to me 'did he just say "sweet sex thing?" and now I can't (or don't want to) hear it any other way because of how much it made me laugh 

To be fair that's only a little worse than a 40-year-old singing "sweet 16" :P

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2 minutes ago, Libertine Angel said:

To be fair that's only a little worse than a 40-year-old singing "sweet 16" :P

Yeah, and it's at least funny. 

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4 hours ago, pucky said:

The booklet has to be wrong, at least with a part of Forever Now.

According to the lyrics, the song goes "Don't want to think about tomorrow, Don't want to think about it, ooooooh" but I swear to God that I hear a word there, I swear it is "Don't want to think about the XXXXX". I have no idea what word is that, but I have no doubt that Billie doesn't say just "it oooooooh", or else I will have to visit a doctor to check my hearing.

What word are you suggesting is there? :huh: I have no idea what "XXXXX" means and I only hear "oooooh". Someone please explain? :lol:

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On 27.10.2016 at 0:56 AM, X-Kid_88 said:

In say goodbye I thought it said "kindred spirits sing, for the second suffering". I thought it was to do with trump getting into the White House (don't think it will happen) but like green day commentating on what it  would be like

Oh yea:)

12 minutes ago, Jane Lannister said:

Yeah, and it's at least funny. 

yea like billie

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8 minutes ago, Wretched & Divine said:

What word are you suggesting is there? :huh: I have no idea what "XXXXX" means and I only hear "oooooh". Someone please explain? :lol:

He doesn't say the word because he doesn't want to think about it and convinces himself it doesn't matter anyway. So the listener has to guess what the word might be/it can be something else for anyone and it's open to interpretation. 

Or maybe he couldn't come up with a rhyme. 

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1 minute ago, Jane Lannister said:

Or maybe he couldn't come up with a rhyme. 

Considering the rest of the album's lyrics that sounds more than feasible :P

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Just now, Libertine Angel said:

Considering the rest of the album's lyrics that sounds more than feasible :P

It's not unlikely :lol: Although usually when he can't think of a rhyme he just repeats the same word.

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12 minutes ago, Jane Lannister said:

He doesn't say the word because he doesn't want to think about it and convinces himself it doesn't matter anyway. So the listener has to guess what the word might be/it can be something else for anyone and it's open to interpretation. 

Or maybe he couldn't come up with a rhyme. 

Geeze, my reading comprehension is nonexistent. I thought the original post was censoring a word which was why I was so confused. This makes a lot more sense now.

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That's been annoying me, it just sounds like an unfinished lyric.... it definitely sounds like "don't want to think about the - ohhhh" to me. And while the above interpretations make sense, it feels totally wrong to sing that because IT'S NOT A SENTENCE!

I did see someone's early attempt at figuring out the lyrics had it as "don't want to think about the old", which fit really well with the previous line "don't want to think about tomorrow", but that's not really what it sounds like.

Might be my favourite song off the album though.

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21 hours ago, pucky said:

The booklet has to be wrong, at least with a part of Forever Now.

According to the lyrics, the song goes "Don't want to think about tomorrow, Don't want to think about it, ooooooh" but I swear to God that I hear a word there, I swear it is "Don't want to think about the XXXXX". I have no idea what word is that, but I have no doubt that Billie doesn't say just "it oooooooh", or else I will have to visit a doctor to check my hearing.

17 hours ago, Wretched & Divine said:

What word are you suggesting is there? :huh: I have no idea what "XXXXX" means and I only hear "oooooh". Someone please explain? :lol:

Actually, when I first heard that song I thought he sang Don't want to think about tomorrow, Don't want to think about the road, and till now I still hear this.

 

 

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Everyone is talking about Revolution Radio, but I'm going way back for a minute. I got a question about a lyric from Private Ale off Kerplunk. The lyrics in question are what I've bolded and underlined below, from the second verse of the song.

"So I sit down here on the hard concrete
Think of my future now
I just don't know
I don't seem to care
So I sit across the street from your home
I wonder if you're sitting all alone
Or is your boyfriend there"

I have listened to the song multiple times on max volume, and have even listened to a really good live recording of the song from the iHeart Radio show a few weeks ago. I cannot get my brain to hear that line, even though the book that comes with the CD lists that as the line. Thoughts? Does Billie have the worst pronunciation ever or is that line actually something else?

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On 26 October 2016 at 11:56 PM, X-Kid_88 said:

In say goodbye I thought it said "kindred spirits sing, for the second suffering". I thought it was to do with trump getting into the White House (don't think it will happen) but like green day commentating on what it  would be like

Me too! I still hear that every time.

On 28 October 2016 at 11:44 AM, pucky said:

The booklet has to be wrong, at least with a part of Forever Now.

According to the lyrics, the song goes "Don't want to think about tomorrow, Don't want to think about it, ooooooh" but I swear to God that I hear a word there, I swear it is "Don't want to think about the XXXXX". I have no idea what word is that, but I have no doubt that Billie doesn't say just "it oooooooh", or else I will have to visit a doctor to check my hearing.

I always hear that as "don't wanna think about the road." I thought it was a touring reference :lol: 

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Outlaws , at first i heard "Burgerrrrrrrssss we destroyed suburbia"   He pronounces it like how we pronounce "burger" in my country..I didn't get "hooligans" at the beginning.

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Idk if i posted this before, if I did I apologize but i always heard "Wait 'till you've had a fistful of ideals" instead of "wasted youth" in Grouch :P

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In Jesus of Suburbia, I used to think that they said "I'm the son of rage and love. The Jesus of Suburbia from Babylon" instead of "from the bible of". In my defence, I was very young when I started listening to Green Day.

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Oh also, ive heard this is incorrect but in Somewhere Now i heard "All we want is weed and guns" instead of "All we want's money and guns"

 

Idk which is correct, but some lyric sites i saw say Money and Guns so :P

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5 hours ago, Jirachi said:

Oh also, ive heard this is incorrect but in Somewhere Now i heard "All we want is weed and guns" instead of "All we want's money and guns"

 

Idk which is correct, but some lyric sites i saw say Money and Guns so :P

I'm pretty sure they sing "weed and guns".

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5 hours ago, Jirachi said:

Oh also, ive heard this is incorrect but in Somewhere Now i heard "All we want is weed and guns" instead of "All we want's money and guns"

 

Idk which is correct, but some lyric sites i saw say Money and Guns so :P

It's obviously money and guns, funny though :lol:

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1 minute ago, Shahd said:

It's obviously money and guns, funny though :lol:

Now that you mention it, listened to the song again and it does sound like money and guns.

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4 hours ago, I don't care said:

Checked some lyric sites and they all say different things. Huh.

In the CD booklet it also says money and guns

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