Black Me Out (Electric version and acoustic version)

Happy fucking new year. I hope there's no regrets.

Awesome find for that full version thank you so much.

NEW FULL BAND Version

Fuck,yeah...great find, Davy. I can't wait to hear a studio cut of this.

Listening to this recording, it sounds like he's saying "All the young graves filled"

I hope they record this like Joy where it's just Tom and a guitar

Ex-wife?

I kind of assumed it had to do with record label experiences or that it was another song about people being dicks to them because of their success...but that's just what I guessed.

Better quality version of the audio from the other night

That sounds great

Anybody notice how much slower the band version is? It's about thirty seconds longer.

I was listening to Black Me Out just now. Tom said it's not about Sire or the punk scene or whatever.

It seems kinda like the lyrics could be about youth unemployment, written from the view of somebody (Tom) who made it without ever getting a "conventional" full-time job, but I don't know.

First verse = "Fuck you and your moral highground because you have an office job"
Chorus = "Fuck you"
Second verse = "I'm not your bitch"
Third verse = "Thanks to your pressure, kids have killed themselves. Luckily, I made it and you can't hurt me anymore"

Lyrically, it may be the polar opposite to something like Lehigh Acres.

Here's a thought. Maybe the song is directed at Tom, from Laura.

http://www.jbtvonline.com/interviews/against-me-twitter-battle

"I feel like they have brass ring that they want you to kiss" I think that line might be about the media

i feel like it might be a response to tim of rise against for his song architect

NEW IDEA: remember when we first heard the album was going to be Trans Dys Blues?

Remember it was originally described as a "concept album about a transgender prostitute"

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Is it possible the line "as if I was your fucking whore"

Could literally be exactly what it sounds like?

It's just a conceptual song about a trans prostitute?

(From http://www.fmqb.com/article.asp?id=2749132)
"It was one of the earlier songs that was written for the record, it’s an angry song and it’s about feeling like you just want to world to f***ing forget you...black me out, forget about me, I no longer exist to you: that kind of anger. And definitely with the chorus, and the imagery of wanting to piss on the walls of your house and chop those brass rings off your fat f***ing fingers, I was just really trying to get across that feeling of anger and those were the two most illustrative things I could think of. The line “I wanna piss on the walls of your house” was inspired by my father actually. My mother told me that when I was too young to remember, my dad used to come home drunk and piss on the walls of the house, so that’s where that line came from."

Um... Yeah. An interesting piece of information there.

That song just keeps growing, both the lyrics and the music! Damn!
I've had such a hard time getting it out of my head since the album came out, so we had to make a cover of it, it's in the AM Covers topic in the forum if anyone's intrested.

DavyGrolton wrote:

NEW IDEA: remember when we first heard the album was going to be Trans Dys Blues?

Remember it was originally described as a "concept album about a transgender prostitute"

...
Is it possible the line "as if I was your fucking whore"

Could literally be exactly what it sounds like?

It's just a conceptual song about a trans prostitute?

No. That was only ever a cover. It's an analogy.