Most un-subtle song of 04
Sum 41 - We're all to blame
Can you fit more cliches into 3 minutes? I don't think so.
Sum 41 acts like they're defying the very laws of the universe by proclaiming their Liberalism. Punks defying W.? What?!! The universe is ending!
Someone needs to sit down those lads and gently explain to them that, "We get it. You're Liberals. All the other punk bands are too."
The thing that brings a smile to my face is picturing the creative process behind We're all to blame.
I imagine Deryck Whibley hunched over a yellow notepad. Realize we're living in a culture of lies, he writes and a smile creeps across his face. "Yessss..." he thinks and continues to write. The muse is speaking and the words are flowing, he's cooking now. Supersize our tragedy! The words appear on the notepad like dictation from God. And then, everyone wants it all with no sacrifice. But dare he? Dare he write such words - such condemnation - and fling them to the doorstep of the world? His face turns grim. America must hear. No matter what the personal cost - America must hear.
"Guys!" he shouts with tears shining like diamonds in his eyes. "Guys! I've got it. I've done it!"
One by one they read what Deryck has written on the notepad and they exchange nervous glances. Can we? But again the doubt dissolves to resolve and Stevo begins to pound a beat on the drums like a call to war. Cone's bass thuds like the grumble of an archangel and Brownsound's fingers dash over his guitarstrings like lightening.
"Yes..." Deryck thinks as he lifts his guitar and steps to the microphone. "This is it!" And then all else dissolves to the roaring of the music and the words tear out of him like they are alive:
ALL! TO! BLAME! how can we still succeed taking what we don't need telling lies as alibis, selling all the that we breed
super size our tragedies ( you can't define me or justify greed)
bought in the land of the free (land, free)
And Republicans everywhere cower. The truth is out! Their reign is over.
Can you fit more cliches into 3 minutes? I don't think so.
Sum 41 acts like they're defying the very laws of the universe by proclaiming their Liberalism. Punks defying W.? What?!! The universe is ending!
Someone needs to sit down those lads and gently explain to them that, "We get it. You're Liberals. All the other punk bands are too."
The thing that brings a smile to my face is picturing the creative process behind We're all to blame.
I imagine Deryck Whibley hunched over a yellow notepad. Realize we're living in a culture of lies, he writes and a smile creeps across his face. "Yessss..." he thinks and continues to write. The muse is speaking and the words are flowing, he's cooking now. Supersize our tragedy! The words appear on the notepad like dictation from God. And then, everyone wants it all with no sacrifice. But dare he? Dare he write such words - such condemnation - and fling them to the doorstep of the world? His face turns grim. America must hear. No matter what the personal cost - America must hear.
"Guys!" he shouts with tears shining like diamonds in his eyes. "Guys! I've got it. I've done it!"
One by one they read what Deryck has written on the notepad and they exchange nervous glances. Can we? But again the doubt dissolves to resolve and Stevo begins to pound a beat on the drums like a call to war. Cone's bass thuds like the grumble of an archangel and Brownsound's fingers dash over his guitarstrings like lightening.
"Yes..." Deryck thinks as he lifts his guitar and steps to the microphone. "This is it!" And then all else dissolves to the roaring of the music and the words tear out of him like they are alive:
ALL! TO! BLAME! how can we still succeed taking what we don't need telling lies as alibis, selling all the that we breed
super size our tragedies ( you can't define me or justify greed)
bought in the land of the free (land, free)
And Republicans everywhere cower. The truth is out! Their reign is over.
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