Staple It Together Lyrics
It's really too bad
He became a prisoner of his own past
He stabbed the moment in the back with the round thumbtack
That held up the list of things he got to do
It's really no good
He's moving on before he understood
He shot the future in the foot with every step he took
Caught from the places that he did 'cause he forgot to look
[Chorus]
He better staple it together and call it bad weather
Staple it together and call it bad weather
Staple it together and call it bad weather
Staple it together and call it bad weather, mm-mmm
[Verse 2]
Well I guess you could say
That he don't even know where to begin
'Cause he looked both ways but he was so afraid
Digging deep into the ditch, every chance he missed
And the mess he made
'Cause hate is such a strong word
And every brick he laid, a mistake they say
That his walls are getting taller, and his world is getting smaller
Better staple it together and call it bad weather
Staple it together and call it bad weather
Staple it together and call it bad weather
Staple it together and call it bad weather, mm-mmm
[Verse 1]
It's really too bad
He became a prisoner of his own past
He stabbed the moment in the back with the round thumbtack
That held up the list of things he got to do
It's really no good
He's moving on before he understood
He shot the future in the foot with every step he took
Caught from the places that he did 'cause he forgot to look
[Chorus]
He better staple it together and call it bad weather
Staple it together and call it bad weather
Staple it together and call it bad weather
Staple it together and call it bad weather
[Outro]
If the weather gets better we should get together
Spend a little time or we could do whatever
And if we get together we'd be twice as clever
So staple it together and call it bad weather, mm-mmm
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This was a really fun one, too. We came up with the music first and found the groove in the studio. It was something that we were messing around with at sound checks during the summertime. A lot of times we pick up our instruments and just kind of jam on a riff for a while. I had the lyric ‘Better staple it together and call it bad weather.’ That was just a line that for some reason popped into my head one day and didn’t have any meaning or anything at first. Once I started wondering what in the world I meant by saying that, I (decided that) it meant that you have to pick up the pieces, move on, and not dwell on the past or think about the future too much.‘ Then I started writing the lyrics, the content and the verses about a person who’s having trouble living in the present, basically.
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- 9.Crying Shame
- 10.If I Could
- 11.Breakdown
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