>the bucket< !i need your help!

[mandrine]

I'm using the song "the bucket" for my senior project.

so, if you have an idea what the song is about, what the lyrics mean or know any other info about the song please tell me!!! that would really help me.

thanks!

[gypster]

I think the lyrics are just a description of being on tour, fairly descriptive. Like arguments (don't feel comfortable talking to you), looking after each other(I'll be the one to show you the way) and fame (everyone's gathered to idolise me).

all pretty obvious I know but that's as far as I get with it

Haven't got a fucking clue what swinging legs and kicking buckets is about

[ILoveTheRazzleKid]

kicking buckets.. isn't that what you'd do in a tantrum? I'm just guessing - but gypo's explained it pretty well. It's basically about being on tour.. and caleb said he wrote it about his baldness (balding star) to highlight his faults.. erm.. gypo has explained most of it so there's not much point me writing haha what a loser.

[nim]

I always presumed you kick the bucket and i'll swing my legs referred to him hanging, the sugestion of getting proper fucked up. I guess there would be plenty of people around them that could either help them lose the plot i.e kicking the bucket for them, or help them sort their heads out. i think the whole album is about them getting proper fucked up i'm sure i read something about the song, they said it was about touring and being on the road.

[PrickleyPorcupine]

I always thought for someone to kick the bucket meant they had popped their clogs

[cornflake]

Kick the bucket, doesn't that mean suicide? You kick the bucket beneath you when one hangs oneself. Would it mean suicide of the "real self" by the immense egotism that surrounded them during touring?

During their last tour, they became this "false self" that is perpetuated through the tiny box of fame that they were living in. The media was talking about them like they were gods, the girls were swarming them and wanting every piece of them just because they were "famous", and others in the industry were wanting to hang around them just becaue of their "fame". It is a vicious cycle that only ended when they went back home and all that "fame" wasn't waiting for them. During the tour, they never saw outside of this box of "fame" and into the real world, and that made them isolated from reality and they were becoming the very people that they hated; egotistical, and ungrateful, . They needed to "kick the bucket" beneath this "false self" to get back into reality and back to themselves.


"I don't feel comfortable talking to you" could me three things. (1) Not wanting to talk to the press/media, (2) Being pissed at each other and not wanting to talk to one another (Everyones emotions are fragile and they get into a lot of fights with one another, usually through liquor talk) or (3) Caleb talking about his alter ego Rooster and not wanting to talk to him because he is usually the shit disturber.

I'm reading way too much into this aren't I?

[ellie]

nim said:

I always presumed you kick the bucket and i'll swing my legs referred to him hanging.

thats what i thought

[caroline, maybe]

"kick the bucket" is an expression used generally to mean death. I don't think it specifically refers to suicide. (ex. the old man kicked the bucket).

[mickey o'neil]

goldenfallingheart said:

"kick the bucket" is an expression used generally to mean death. I don't think it specifically refers to suicide. (ex. the old man kicked the bucket).

yeah thats what i thought

[alfmuniz]

ahh you ppl are lookin way too deep

i think its kl your puttin the kings into a school project or summat.
Im guessin the song is about bein on tour and the kick the bucket is jus sum1 dyin like goldenfallingheart said.

while im here, i jus wanted to know for sure:
i gathered from holy roller novocaine that its about popping a gurls cherry or summat of that sort. can anyone either reassure me or tell me its about summat totally different please?
thanks

[mickey o'neil]

how did you gather that?!

[caroline, maybe]

I thought it was just about a priest, or some kind of religious figure, misusing his power and authority to get with women.

[mickey o'neil]

more specifically i thought it was about a preacher trying to get with their mom. the bastard!

[alfmuniz]

he says like:
"keep that smile on your purdy face cuz you dont have much i cant take away"
(maybe her virginity?)

and:
"this cud b the night where the moon turns red"
i thought that might be a phrase for her cherry bein popped!

but i might b rong
what does every1 else think?

[mim]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what it means. And it gets even cruder: "You'll be hearing me coming, but I can't come inside."
I always assumed that meant, well, I'm sure I don't have to go into it.

[mandrine]

thank you guys for helping.. even though it got off topic .. lol.. i appreciate it.

[cornflake]

What is this for? What kind of project is it?

[caroline, maybe]

mim said:

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what it means. And it gets even cruder: "You'll be hearing me coming, but I can't come inside."
I always assumed that meant, well, I'm sure I don't have to go into it.

haha yeah, and I always thought it was really clever how he turns it around after that and goes "I'll be out back in my white cadillac"

[mickey o'neil]

goldenfallingheart said:

mim said:

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what it means. And it gets even cruder: "You'll be hearing me coming, but I can't come inside."
I always assumed that meant, well, I'm sure I don't have to go into it.

haha yeah, and I always thought it was really clever how he turns it around after that and goes "I'll be out back in my white cadillac"

i never even thought of it like that. i always thought of it literally like he was saying, "i'm coming to pick you up in my car and you're gonna have to sneak out and keep this a secret" but who knows, thats just what i thought. and if it is about their mother specifically then they obviously arent talkin about her losing her virginity.

[caroline, maybe]

yeah, I think it's both. I think it's a play on words. but maybe not. haha.

and it's about their mom?