A monthly update on our latest interviews, stories and added songs, During the recording session everyone in the band was arguing with their girlfriends about the same thing: They weren't in Ohio with them. How do you feel about the song now? JT WOODRUFF: It’s kind of a funny song for us because when we took it into the studio, we took it in as an instrumental because it wasn’t ready. Jimmy Webb was inspired to write "Up-Up and Away" by a balloon that his friend William F. Williams flew on promotions for radio station KMEN. WOODRUFF: This was our first experience ever doing anything like that. "It's hard to feel like I … "One is me having a conversation, where the other one is more in my head. I would compare it to the people thinking death metal was causing people to commit violent acts. The song is about a boy who confesses his undying love to a flower, and then it pokes him in the eye and becomes black. WOODRUFF: The second verse refers to me thinking to myself. In this recurring column, we discuss the back stories of some of the scene’s most resonant songs with the people who made them. There were a couple of tense moments in the studio because this was our first time away from home, away from our friends and family [and] our girlfriends. And everyone comes up and is like, “How cool is it that you guys hung that from the rafters?” It was out of necessity, not because we wanted to. And if everyones getting so worked up about it then youre obviously not calling yourselves unique because that's what emo really is about'. Why does everything have to turn into a debate over emos? ‘Ohio Is For Lovers’ really stands out.” We didn’t realize that and we don’t realize that now. If you want to e-mail me your input on my point of view my myspace is myspace.com/i_cant_here_you Hope this helped.... lol. Emo's just a genre- it's just about being yourself. So he cuts himself and some cool stuff. This is probly no where near the real point but this is what I think so yea. })(); (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Just to make this a bit clearer, the "cut my wrists and black my eyes" line is used in a figurative meaning, like they can't live without that special someone. Irving Berlin wrote "How Dry I Am" in anticipation of Prohibition, envisioning a bleak future without alcohol. “Normally, you put your first single around the first through third track.”. You know you … We’ve had people come up to us and say, “Your music has absolutely saved my life. "So cut my wrists and black my eyes" means not a whole lot on it's own... but "Because you kill me, you know you do you kill me well, you like it too and I can tell" shows this person has either inflicted intense emotional damage on him, or it kills him that he likes this person, or perhaps they just have a rather violent love life. Iowa is so much better. You know you do, you kill me well. All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners. Who cares? It's the connection other people have with the song, it connects them to our band that links them to a better time period. "I can't make it on my own" means he needs a certain somebody, and "because my heart is in Ohio" means that person he loves lives in Ohio. maybe they r just saying fuck society today fuck designer labels fuck being blonde and popular. Have you ever gotten backlash over the “cut my wrists and black my eyes” line? HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS But the song is about more than that. Who is the “you” you’re addressing in the song? It’s always been a good song, but it’s one song on our first album in our first recording session. All lyrics provided for educational purposes only. It's Hawthorne Heights. Genre: Alternative. It was cool because we [had] never done anything like that.
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