I don't understand the song, The Verve Pipe's "the freshman"...?!
Question:
I don't understand the song, The Verve Pipe's "the freshman"...?
Could someone in detail explain it to me? Thanks!
Answers:
The Verve Pipe's lead singer, Brian Vander Ark, wrote this about his ex-girlfriend getting an abortion. In the second verse, his girlfriend overdoses on Valium to commit suicide, but this part never happened and was made up by Vander Ark
Hence "STOP A BABY'S BREATH, AND A SHOE FULL OF RICE" Stop a baby's breath is just that. Abort the baby. A shoe full of rice is a result of a wedding. So - stop a baby's breath AND then you stop a wedding.
"MY BEST FRIEND TOOK A WEEKS VACATION TO FORGET HER. (He needed to get away because of what happened.) HIS GIRL TOOK A WEEK'S WORTH OF VALIUM AND SLEPT" self explanatory.
Brian said they chose the title "the freshman" because at some point we're all freshmen in one situation or another.