Eternal Yamcha
03-25-2006, 05:50 AM
I apologize if this thread has been done before, I did use the search button and couldn't find that it has, but just incase it does and I didn't see it, I'm sorry.
Has anyone ever noticed that the songs DUI, The End of the Line and Gone Away, when played in that order, seem to create a bit of a story? I discovered this awhile back (a year or so ago) and ever since, when I have those songs, I place them in that order in almost all of my playlists.
Just listen/read the lyrics and you'll know what I'm talking about. There might be a bit of editing to do to the stories that the individual songs tell, but not all that much.
The story goes like this.
DUI: A guy, whose drinking problems are notorious, gets drunk at a bar with his friends. His friends try to keep him off of the road and one eventually contacts his girlfriend. He is completely convinced that he isn't drunk and eventually gets out of the bar and gets in his car. In his intoxicated state, he speeds recklessly down the highway and eventually gets into an accident...
The End of the Line: The guy crashes into another car at an insanely high speed. The other driver is killed. When he is pulled out of the car he looks over trying to see who the other driver is... It was his girlfriend. For the next few days he lays in a hospital bed, feeling just god awful that he killed his girlfriend. For whatever reason, he was able to go to her funeral... After the funeral, he's taken to (or back to) prison...
Gone Away: A few years pass and he gets out of prison on probation. Spending years in a cell stewing in his own anger and pain over his lost loved one, he is finally freed. The world begins to feel different, people treat him differently finding out that he has killed someone... His friends, after not seeing him much, if at all, during that time he was in prison have alienated themselves from him and thus, visits the grave of his deceased lover... Finally admitting that he'd rather have died than her.
I know it's a bit of a stretch and the story has a few holes in it, but the basis of one exists between these three songs.
I found this out by accident, I didn't go searching for it. The randomizer for my media player was on and it played those three songs in a row and that's when I discovered it.
So yes, my question to you is... "Has anyone else noticed this?" Also, it'd be awesome if people pointed out any other "stories" like this in other Offspring songs?
Has anyone ever noticed that the songs DUI, The End of the Line and Gone Away, when played in that order, seem to create a bit of a story? I discovered this awhile back (a year or so ago) and ever since, when I have those songs, I place them in that order in almost all of my playlists.
Just listen/read the lyrics and you'll know what I'm talking about. There might be a bit of editing to do to the stories that the individual songs tell, but not all that much.
The story goes like this.
DUI: A guy, whose drinking problems are notorious, gets drunk at a bar with his friends. His friends try to keep him off of the road and one eventually contacts his girlfriend. He is completely convinced that he isn't drunk and eventually gets out of the bar and gets in his car. In his intoxicated state, he speeds recklessly down the highway and eventually gets into an accident...
The End of the Line: The guy crashes into another car at an insanely high speed. The other driver is killed. When he is pulled out of the car he looks over trying to see who the other driver is... It was his girlfriend. For the next few days he lays in a hospital bed, feeling just god awful that he killed his girlfriend. For whatever reason, he was able to go to her funeral... After the funeral, he's taken to (or back to) prison...
Gone Away: A few years pass and he gets out of prison on probation. Spending years in a cell stewing in his own anger and pain over his lost loved one, he is finally freed. The world begins to feel different, people treat him differently finding out that he has killed someone... His friends, after not seeing him much, if at all, during that time he was in prison have alienated themselves from him and thus, visits the grave of his deceased lover... Finally admitting that he'd rather have died than her.
I know it's a bit of a stretch and the story has a few holes in it, but the basis of one exists between these three songs.
I found this out by accident, I didn't go searching for it. The randomizer for my media player was on and it played those three songs in a row and that's when I discovered it.
So yes, my question to you is... "Has anyone else noticed this?" Also, it'd be awesome if people pointed out any other "stories" like this in other Offspring songs?