Caleb's Lyrics

[fromhelltomaine]

Hey guys,
I was just wondering whether anyone had seen an interview I hadn't and could answer a question for me..
I've always been so into lyrics and their meanings (my best subject is by far English), and so of course when I started listening to KOL that's what grabbed me (along with the kick ass music).
I was walking home today and started singing Black Thumbnail real loud. This happens to me quite often, it usually takes weird looks from neighbors to make me realize that i'm singing, apparently quite loud.
So anyways I was singing it and I love so many lines in that song, like "Don't take these boots off me when you think that I'm dead / I'll still be running from the demon in my head"
or
"From runways to the road I ramble alone / This thumbnail size of heart is black as coal / Your beauty it still brings me to my knees / Don't waste a tear on me it's my disease"

I mean, I know this is a broad question, and it applies to pretty much every KOL song not just this one, but how the hell does he come up with stuff like this?? I mean the imagery and everything, cos if I was trying to describe someone or something i would never think of something like:

"Don't waste a tear on me it's my disease" or

"People call us renegades / Cause we like living crazy / We like takin on the town / Cause people are getting lazy"

"Strain, living with name"

"Pushing and jumping / Jumping the mountain range / Burning up railroad / Railroad from Hell to Maine"

"Say why you never saw me no you never seen my calling right in front your face / I'll smoke you in the end and don’t you ever turn around cause it’s that coming of age"





Anyone who could please help!!


p.s. I realise I've quoted ALOT, but let's be honest, there's never a time when there's too much KOL

[sarah///]

I have no idea but I hope whatever it is never goes away!

[sxesadie]

Plain and simple Caleb's a genius! And I think his brain just pumps out all his deep feelings into images and does it a bit different/better when he's under the influence of something. Jimi Hendrix use to write music that way too. He always saw images and colors that represented his feelings and emotions and that's why IMO Hendrix was one of the greatest lyricist as well as guitarist.

[chloeg]

It just rolls of his tounge As he says in that home videos one about cold desert, its just what he is feeling and he is saying exactly how he feels in the songs

[katie44]

He's a lyrical genuis.

[mrsbrightside]

^^^'Nuff said Katie

[fallenxheart]

I'm the same way, I would LOVE to be able to write awesome poetry but I can never think of interesting ways to say things. I think that it takes a certain type of talent and a certain kind of brain, basically I think you're just born with the talent, and then you have to practice at it, a LOT.

but either way, caleb is a freaking amazing lyricist and I could only dream of being not even half as good as he is. that is one thing i could never get tired of, trying to figure out his lyrics, they're awesome.