You know, sometimes you don’t know why you like it.But like, I’ll be specific about meanings without fully understanding them, maybe - just knowing what I don’t want to say, what I want to say and it sort of all comes together later on because once you’re so into it, you know… and also, the big thing about the songs and the meaning is… a lot of songs I have the whole thing worked out… the thing is, you’ll have a meaning all drawn out head to toe, the beginning and the end, the conclusion you know, *laughs* it all makes sense, it rhymes, it’s great and then you sing it and it sounds like shit. And it just sounds so phony. So you gotta change it around, and then a sentence that actually has a deeper meaning will sound totally corny but then you sort of lighten it up and it sounds very cool and much more poignant. The meanings change as you’re recording them.
 Julian Casablancas, talking about meanings behind the songs he writes (FIOE era)

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