Guest Room Lyrics
They're gonna send us to prison for jerks
For having vague ideas of the way to turn each other on again
They're gonna send us to prison for jerks
[Chorus]
They'll find us here
Here, here in the guest room
Where we throw money at each other and cry
Oh, my
[Verse 2]
We miss being ruffians, going wild and bright
In the corners of front yards, getting in and out of cars
We miss being deviants
[Chorus]
They'll find us here
Here, here in the guest room
Where we throw money at each other and cry
Oh, my
[Post-Chorus]
We can't stay here
We're starting to stay the same
We can't stay here
We can't stay this way
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Oh, that was sort of stolen from Grace Paley. She’s got a collection of shorts stories called Enormous Changes At The Last Minute and there’s a scene where some guy chases a woman down a sidewalk and at one point they’re having this argument and she throws like three dollars in change at him. It’s one of those really heartbreaking and absurd moments where it’s so pathetic, but its also kind of hilarious you know, they’re screaming at each other and she throws change in his face, or something. So, yeah, that was kind of taken from that, and then I think it was used in the song to represent those awkward intimate moments where you have those really stupid, ugly things that you do in a relationship when you get fed up with each other or whatever. You do things that are just ridiculous, but then you eventually let each other off the hook.
— Matt Berninger
- 1.Fake Empire
- 3.Brainy
- 5.Green Gloves
- 6.Slow Show
- 8.Start a War
- 9.Guest Room
- 11.Ada
- 12.Gospel