Cribs, The - Be Safe Lyrics
One of those fucking awful black days
When nothing is pleasing and everything that happens
Is an excuse for anger
An outlet for emotions stockpiled
An arsenal. An armour
These are the days when I hate the world
Hate the rich, hate the happy
Hate the complacent - the TV watchers
The beer drinkers, the satisfied ones
Because I know I can be all of those little hateful things
And then I hate myself for realizing that
There is no preventative directive or safe approach to living
We each know our own fate
We know from our youth how we are treated
These things don't change
You can change your clothes
Change your hairstyle, your friends, cities, continents
But sooner or later your own self will always catch up
Always it waits in the wings
(Ideas swirl but don't stick
They appear but then run off like rain on the windshield)
One of those rainy day car rides, my head imploding
The atmosphere in this car a mirror of my skull
Wet, damp, windows dripping and misted with cold
Walls of grey. Nothing good on the radio, not a thought in my head
I know a place we can go where you'll fall in love so hard that
You'll wish you were dead
Let's take life and slow it down incredibly slow
Frame by frame
The two minutes that take ten years to live out
Yeah, let's do that
"Telephone poles like praying mantis against the sky
Metal arms outstretched"
So much land travelled, so little sense made of it
It doesn't mean a thing, all this land laid out behind us
I'd like to take off into these woods and get good and lost for a while
I'm disgusted with petty concerns
Parking tickets, breakfast specials
Does someone just have to carry this weight?
Abstract topography
Methane covenant
Linear gospel
Asheville sales lady
Stygian emissary
Torturous lice
Mad Elizabeth
Chemotherapy bullshit
I know a place we can go where you'll fall in love so hard that
You'll wish you were dead
The light within me shines like a diamond mine
Like an unarmed walrus
Like a dead man face down on a highway
Like a snake eating its own tail
A steam turbine, frog pond
Too-full closets burst open in disarray
Soap bubbles in the sun
Hospital death bed, red convertible, shopping list, blowjob
Deaths head, devils dancing, bleached white buildings, memory movements
The movie unpeeling, unreeling, about to begin
I know a place we can go where you'll fall in love so hard that
You'll wish you were dead
I see yr hallway, you are a dark hallway
I've hear your stairs creak
I can fix my mind on your 'yes' and your 'no'
I'll film your face today in the sparkling canals
All red yellow blue green brilliance and silvered Dutch reflections
Racing thoughts - racing thoughts, all too real
Your moving so fast now, I can't hold your image
This image I have of your face by the window
Me standing beside you, arm on your shoulder
A catalogue of images, flashing glimpses, then gone again
I am tethered to this post you've sunk in me
And every clear afternoon now I'll think of you: up in the air
Twisting your heel, your knees up around me, my face in your hair
You scream so well, your smile so loud still rings in my ears
I know a place we can go where you'll fall in love so hard that
You'll wish you were dead
Inefficient distant tide of longing
Cleaning my teeth
Stay the course
Hold the wheel
Steer on to freedom
Open ALL the boxes
OPEN ALL the boxes
OPEN ALL THE BOXES
Times Square, midday, newspaper building, news headlines going around
We watch as they go (and hope for some good ones!)
Those tree-shadows in the park here, all whispering, shaking leaves
Around 6pm
Shadows across the cobblestones
Girl in front of bathroom mirror
She slow and careful paints her face green, mask-like
Like Matisse, "Portrait with Green Stripe"
Long shot through apartment window
A monologue on top but no girl in shot
The light within me shines like a diamond mine
Like an unarmed walrus, like a dead man face down on a highway
Like a snake eating it's own tail
A steam turbine, frog pond
Too-full closet burst open in disarray, soap bubbles in the sun
Hospital death bed, red convertible, shopping list, blowjob
Deaths head, devils dancing, bleached white buildings, memory movements
The movie unpeeling, unreeling, about to begin
That was great by me
Yeah? Mine were alright. Wasn't my best one but who cares?
That's the spirit
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- Cribs, The - Year Of Hate
- Cribs, The - In Your Palace
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- Cribs, The - Rainbow Ridge
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Cribs, The Be Safe Comments
The English version of the Trainspotting quote
Never Back Down 💪
If anyone needs this, it DOES get better. I listened to this song so much in my darkest days 5 years ago, I never thought those days would end, the feeling of nothingness was always with me.
Five years on I wish I could talk to myself all those years ago and give her a massive hug. Here's my hug for anyone going through that now.
Your life is precious and since the beginning of time this life has been looked after by every single one of your ancestors for you, right here, right now. Your life is incredible and worthy. X
2019 be safe
"I'm tethered to this post you've sunk in me."
I have such good memories that are linked to this song and it seems I have new ones added to it constantly
Gives me goosbumps
Quebrando regras
Tomorrow’s another day
Crazy and cool at the same time:)
Why do I hear Ferris Bueller’s voice?
I wanna shove some fries in my mouth and cry when I hear this song
lee ronaldo
so much land traveled, so little sense made from it..
I always think about writing this but somehow never able to finish; life is getting real tough and i know one day life will change. I want do this music thing but life is pushing through the other side, 9 to 7 job, come home, do some home stuff, no place to practice, all the nagativity trying to bring you down plus this freelancing thing. Waking up late daily and regretting about it whole day. I used to wake up at 5 and also had done the 4am thing but nowdays I’m all gone. I write my feelings on youtube comments makes me wonder one day I’ll get there and people have a good story to tell. This song is so beautiful, depressing, inspiring, motivating I don’t know how many emotions are there in this song. Just praying for the good life and hoping for the best, listen to good music and rock the world.
JOY
I'm obsessed with this song.
For it to count as "fair use" you have to critique, comment, teach etc in regards to the piece, planting it wholesale doesn't count lol.
Jake Tyler 😎😎
This song deserves a BEAUTIFUL VIDEO..
Does anyone know what happened to the unofficial music video that was done by an art student here? It was awesome and i cant seem to find it anywhere.
Rendirse Jamas👈😉❤
Something about this song...ever back down brought me here
OPEN ALL THE BOXES
A comment on The Murlocs - Rolling On brought me here
it sound like weezer
Its christmas and im fucking crying to this song
who is 2018 still listening this fuckin great song.
This song stop me from putting a 9mm hollow point in my fucking worthless head !
Never back down
Fantastic, just fantastic,the cribs at their very best.
Open... AAALLLLL the boxes.
The storyline is far more perfect, than never back down 2. Amazing, dialogue delivery action choreography, Ryan McCarthy-the Badass have done quite a justice to the character, especially when Jake Tyler in the end nod to Ryan McCarthy in a sportsmen attitude!
amazing! 😍😍😍😍
Wait there is a second never back down ?!!!
Those lyrics are so great, genius poetry!
This song is so great to just sit outside at night, pop your headphones on and just look at the stars.
A work of Art. Pure poetry!
Sure ya exactly
Never back down
Me here
this is an amazing song, I feel like this sometimes. when I have feelings that words can't explain, music talks for you and you begin to realize what those feelings are. I love the part that said " you can be all you can, change everything about you but eventually your own self catches up to you"
Thats exactly why I love music, songs often represent feelings in such a prefect way, you can relate to songs like that
Never back down is my favorite movie besides other ones but there soundtrack is so good
Buraları herkes bilmez. 14.01.2018 - 14:09 TR
This just makes me so sad
Never back down
This song is so perfect when I need to to release stress sometimes
:') Coordenada 2017 xoxo
At least I have a home
cccg10110 only real ones know 😂😂😂
cccg10110 then go to it
What do you say to me?
such an underrated song
Paralyzed, yet wanting to step forward, the unknown undiscovered, scared, must break out of this shell like a bird peaking out into the world...
Blowjob
There use to be a VERY good music video for this, it was a college project or something . i am very sad to see it removed. it was a very good synced video for this song. Shit, i still got some of the clips in my head xD . Really blows to see it removed though.
i thought the cribs were a dopey we pop group, but this is pretty good
jiggersotoole they may have a dopey pop single, but the rest of their discography is great
Interesting fact: the narrator is Lee Ranaldo from the band Sonic Youth
mikeyh55 ❤
I know a place we can go where you'll fall in love so hard that you'll wish you were dead
i hate myself and wanna die please do not help me
I hope your still on earth homie lately ive been thinking to myself im 25 yrs old and haven't done shit for the world no body takes me serious like when i talk about the federal reserve like im crazy or some shit but im talking about the buckshit everyone has been tought to believe
Love this fckng song fck the society!
I'm bipolar and every time I flip - it's this on repeat. Music truly can and does help us all to relate, disassociate and ultimately keep us in a rut. Be it good or bad rut it's one that keeps you turning. Love this song.
makes you wonder did I do this right where am I supposed to be all in a bag
she reject me I feel like shit now
You'll be fine man, u just have to wait for the right moment. Eventually you'll get over it but until then, be safe.
No pun intended
I'm 👌 this close to doing it
don't do it.
Did you?
cool...much love Tee with LIONS NAMED LEO
Reminds me of Popular by Nada Surf
This song should be called The Truth {:>_<:}
I'm So Depressed I Came Here Before Grabbing the Gun And Ending it All Threw A Bank Teller Desk Asking For Money Chu's Being Poor Knowing Your Family Is Wealthy and Your the One Suffering Looking Homeless and Unsuccessful And Being Only Child With Nobody To Talk to With Fake Friends and Fake Girlfriend who says she loves you and trust you knowing she has no. trust while being sick knowing your dieing Chu's you don't have money to save your self ..lack of respect from people who once believed in you now don't believe in you..I know now what ever sin or crime I do The Cribs Warned Me Be Safe ... Majority Of Social Society Won't Understand .. .
+Adrian Cordova you sound awfully drunk, but i get you. take care man.
+teddy idon'tknowwhattowrite god bless brother
^Holy shit. Someone who loves both, the Cribs, and QOTSA. w0w. And now both bands are going to be at RIOT FEST.
“Social society”
Your own self will always catch up with you...
if it ever leaves you at all
Let me catch up with you (;
Shut up. Idiot.
But what is ur own self ? I have no idea what my own self is..Doesn't it keep changing with time with age
This song makes me feel so safe, its crazy
be safe
Never back down I miss that movie
DarkSouls Dark I love that movie!😍
Like an unarmed walrus
Anyone
Great symbolism
This is literally the last song you want to listen to if you are trying to get out of depression or something similar, just sayin'
Zy3zyx thank you
Lambo99 I listen to it when I'm down. Helps me remember it will be all okay.
But yet its always the first song i come to in those situations.
It’s an intense depressing feeling when you know what it means and feel the same way. Especially when you try to convince yourself it isn’t, it is quite hard to listen to sometimes. Saddening
Lambo99 this song is about overcoming depression and being okay with the chaos of the world. Not playing things too “safe”. That there is no place or time you can go to that will make things perfect and that’s okay.
I speaks about my life
Never back down put bad ass music especially this one
i heard this song today, then i looked up lyrics, it is just - awesome.
oye cy..
this speaks to me so much,
Somehow this song makes perfect sense and no sense at the same time.
“Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.”
Do you look like Jason Schwartzman? Dork.
Daniel Kogut yo
That's how I feel about the line
"Telephone poles like praying mantis against the sky
Metal arms outstretched
So much land traveled, so little sense made of it
It doesn't mean a thing, all this land laid out behind us"
Like fucking hell it makes perfect sense but also I'm not sure if it does
this song fucked me up
This song rocked before Never Back Down
god i love this song
Great song..props to Slint's Breadcrumb Trail.
Fucking sex riff
ERRRMAHGERD! THIS MIX IS THE ENTIRE SOUNDTRACK FOR NEVER BACK DOWN!!!!!
Never Back Down had such an amazing soundtrack. It was perfection.
and the movie was so good. it's so fuckin underrated
This song means the world to me
Never Back Down Brought me here
Same here man because i really want to bullet in my fucking head then i heard this song and i put the gun down
thumbs up if you didnt need to watch never back down to already know about this amazing band and amazing song
You got three thumbs up for that comment. Three years ago. Thats 1 thumb up per year. Why do people ask for 'thumbs up' comments? Is it to feel included? Is it to feel elitist compared to the people who did hear this from Never Back down? Why? Who really cares to take the time to post that? There are millions of comments like yours and millions like mine, asking these questions. Copies on copies, simulacra.
Thumbs down if you hate your life.
I've never heard of back down. Love this album.
@Daimen Tokiwa couldn't have said it better, was literally just about to comment that
never back down .:))))
cool video :D
You should watch it.
It's a great inspirational film, with a shit ton of awesome songs in it :D
This being a fucking stonker of a track brought me here. I haven't seen that film although I have seen the bit where your man knocks the cappoera or however the fuck ya pronounce it guy clean out.
Never Back Down :)
remember when this was taken off youtube, saddest day of my life.
Fucking great this song
Fuck the world, fuck everyone and everything today. Tomorrow is tomorrow, but today i fuck everything.
cold men,, great song
leeds festival brought me here! they were fucking amazing
I remember listening to this song during the days of my corruption.
It always managed to relax me for some reason. I don't know if it was the lyrics, the rhythm, the tone...but it helped.
I loved hearing this song especially on rainy days...heh...