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“ Basically, I wrote this song during a moment of clarity and I think it’s the most spiritual song I’ve ever written. It’s probably one of my favorite songs that I’ve ever written. It illuminates how I feel about the universe and spirituality, and the evolution of the soul and the collective evolution of everyone’s souls. It is sort of a hymnal; it addresses how I believe that everything in the universe and other universes and parallels and dimensions are all united. It’s kind of like one giant organism that I worship, and I call it God, but someone might not necessarily refer to it that way. But I tried to illuminate my religious and spiritual views and how they pertain to the overall record. This song shows the shift I had gone through in becoming one with this thing again, after years of being completely cut-off and feeling less important than it. True love is the best example of the presence of something bigger in this life, and I wanted to show specifically how I see the afterlife and God. I wanted to show people who have an aversion to being spiritual or religious that it isn’t simply a crazy notion, but involves science and logic and reason. The way it’s explained in the song is that all of the physical things fade away; there will still be spiritual matter that will continue to persist in a way we cannot perceive it. There are things in life we cannot explain or I believe you can’t explain with physics. ”
— Max on Ahhh… Men via (via fuckyeahsayanything)
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“ This is kind of a funny song and a little schizophrenic because it was written very organically. When I was writing it, I had no idea what was going to come out of me. I told myself I wanted to write one song on the record that had a million different parts, kind of like our old records as we had so many streamlined songs. The ideas would be more alike and would come in the same way as they evolve and start in one place and end in another. This song is a turning point on the record. I start out feeling sorry for myself, alienated as usual. Then I have this realization that it’s not really doing anything for me. I see what’s wrong with the world and that I want to change. I see the things that make me feel inadequate and realize that I can’t let that consume me just because those things make me feel different. I start to pull myself out of the riot and examine my life and empower myself. I start to throw a middle finger up at the things I can’t change. The song really talks about accepting the things you can change and letting go of the things you cannot. There are certain things in my past—whether it’s my bipolar disorder or how I grew up or how things were done wrong to me by other people—which I had to accept as not my fault. There were other things that I was doing to myself and other things that were my doing and my responsibility. I had to differentiate between those things. I had to take responsibility and move on and do things differently when I can. ”
— Max on Mara and Me via (via fuckyeahsayanything)
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“ This is both a song about being passionately in love with somebody and subverting social standards at the same time because your relationship is so truthful and pure and passionate on so many levels—whether it’s like love levels or sexual levels. It’s like the very act of loving each other is a statement of defiance against society that doesn’t promote human relationships like that; it wants us to sort of not give everything to someone else, whether it be friends or loved ones. When you can find everything that you need in someone—someone like a true love and it’s a real thing—it’s really a punk rock thing. That’s why this song exists. It’s especially about Sherri and her being an individual, and that’s one of the reasons I ended up falling in love with her—she was already defying and fighting against the man on her own. She’s really creative and not a conformist type of a girl. She’s even less conformist than I am, and that’s what this song is about. ”
— Max on She Won’t Follow You via (via fuckyeahsayanything)
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cosmic-dust:suninscorpio:deerfoxwitch:
forthecoldnights:vaporeon: depthofyoureyes:i want one of these
need.
i just showed my mom one of these on ebay and told her i want it for christmas. i think she is really confused on how she raised such a weird kid.
I HAVE ONE.
But the joints come unstuck. It’s a real pain.
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Tik Tok- Ke$ha
Meghan and I get down to this errrr’time
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“ This is a song about death and how love relates to death, and the fear of death. It’s kind of about how finding love alleviated my fear of death or my fear of growing old. It was a statement of recognizing my soul’s link to Sherri’s. It’s about how when you really love someone and it’s deep in your soul, after you die the soul endures and that love will burn on. If everything was stripped away and I had to answer after I die—consciously affirm the most important thing in my life—it would be Sherri, the defining thing in my life. ”
— Max on Cemetery via (via fuckyeahsayanything)
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