Album: The Swiss Army Romance (2000)

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• Sleep with all the lights on
  
  You're not so happy
  
  You're not secure
  
  
  And you're dying to look cute
  
  In your blue jeans
  
  But you're plastic just like everyone
  
  Just like everyone
  
  
  And that face you paint is pressed
  
  Impressing most of us as permanent
  
  And I'd like to see you undone
  
  
  College night will draw the crowds
  
  Dorms unload and you're heading out
  
  Here is your moment to shine
  
  Making up a history
  
  It's nothing from the life you lead
  
  But man, will they buy all your lines
  
  
  Sleep with all the sheets off
  
  Bearing your mattress
  
  Bearing your soul
  
  
  And you're dying to look smooth
  
  With your tattoos
  
  But you're searching just like everyone
  
  You could be anyone
  
  
  And those friends you have are the best
  
  Impressing most of us as permanent
  
  But I'd like to see you undone
  
  
  Youth's the most unfaithful mistress
  
  Still we forge ahead to miss her
  
  Rushing our moment to shine
  
  Making up a history
  
  It's nothing from the life you lead
  
  But man, will they buy all your lines
  
  
  We're not twenty-one
  
  But the sooner we are
  
  The sooner the fun will begin
  
  
  So get out your fake eyelashes
  
  And fake I.D.s
  
  And real disasters ensue
  
  
  It's cool to take these chances
  
  It's cool to fake romances
  
  And grow up fast
  
  
  And grow up fast
  
  And grow up fast
  
  And grow up fast Writer/s: Christopher Carrabba
  Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Comments: 11

• Paige from Avondale, PaThis song is about teenage girls. It's about how much they care about what other people think, so they "get out fake eyelashes...and fake id's...its cool to take these chances...and grow up fast...". This song is saying they pretend to be older and more mature so they lie about things when they really are just covering up something else, like fear to be themselves.
• Renee from Saint John, CanadaThis is one of my favorite Dashboard songs. The lyrics are amazing.
• Tom from Jamestown, NyChris, from San Diego, "emo" is short for "emotional hardcore." It's any kind of guitar-driven alternative rock that expresses emotion beyond punk's limited range of alientation and rage.
• Shindoakari from Medan, Indonesiadashboard!!!cried everytime i listened to his song...*sniff*
• Ariel from Woodbridge, Cti just found a must read for any Dashboard/any other "emo" fans- its called Nothing Feels Good, and Chris says in it that the title "Swiss Army Romance" refers to "her-well, actually to people like us, our relationship just got to this point where it was all...neutral. totally neutral. just like the Swiss Army."
• Kerry from New York, Nythis song isn't about a romance, actually. i've talked to him about it at shows *and* read it in interviews. it's about teenage girls who rush ahead to act grown up, missing the greatest part of their life (youth). instead they wear makeup and get fake ids and try so hard to be grown up when really they're just as lost as everyone else.
• Billy from Pittsburgh, PaWhen I saw this title, I was tempted to assume that the meaning referred to slitting your wrists. You know, with a Swiss Army Knife, or something along those lines. I mean, this is emo...
• Annabeth from Kutztown, PaI got the idea that it's about a girl who's very young, still in high school, maybe, who goes up to the college nearby and pretends to be older and more experienced than she is, cuz she's trying to be cool. ("Get out your fake eyelashes and your fake i.d.s," "college nights will draw the crowds," "it's cool to take these chances, it's cool to fake romances and grow up fast.") Also, I think it might have to do with her trying to grow up and be an adult.
• Ariel from Woodbridge, Ctthe title Swiss Army Romance, does not mean "Non-Existient", nor does it refer to the Swiss Army knife in fact the Swiss army is one of the best armies in the world, it means pointless and neutral.
• Meg from Worcester, MaIt seems as if it's about a relationship he had with a girl who was very fake...as a result, any "love" that they may have had mut have turned out to be fake as well. What I get from it is a deep description of a girl that tells a lot of lies about herself, and isn't true to herself, in order to be cool and have tons of friends. He must know the real her, and must have wanted her to act like her real self. She probably didn't want to stop acting popular, so he deserts her and nothing real ever happened.
• Alison from Fairfield, Ctchris is the man, i mean, his poetry is so freaking good

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