Lyrics
Beetlebee, you know the muscle eats the brain sometimes
Referencing how sometimes physical strength or action overtakes logical thinking or intelligence.
Tried to replicate a photo are you satisfied
Attempting to recreate a specific moment captured in a photo; questioning if the attempt brings satisfaction.
Is it knowing that makes you mine
Wondering if possessing knowledge about something or someone makes that thing or person belong to them.
Or that knowing that we were running out of time, well
Contemplating whether the realization of time running out contributes to a sense of possession or significance.
Hold that pose you're looking like a fatal frame
Asking to hold a certain pose that resembles a moment frozen in a photograph, suggesting a resemblance to something eerie or haunting.
Paid a penny out of way to make a picture last in time, and
Spent money or effort to preserve a moment in time, possibly indicating an attempt to hold onto a memory.
Took a Polaroid just to make you stay the same
Took a Polaroid picture with the intention of preserving a specific moment or keeping someone unchanged.
Don't move, don't move
An instruction/command to not move, possibly to maintain a specific moment or feeling.
Who are you to say
Questioning someone's authority or right to determine how time passes.
That time don't move any other other way
Challenging the notion that time can only progress in a specific manner.
And who are you to look the other way
Questioning someone's choice to ignore a particular way time progresses.
When time don't move any other other way
Questioning someone's decision to overlook an alternative way time might move.
Beetlebee, you swing the bat and swing away
Referring to someone named "Beetlebee" swinging a bat forcefully and persistently.
Don't move, don't move
Reiteration of the command to not move, emphasizing the desire to maintain a specific state.
Swing the bat a swing away like a picture in a frame
Comparing swinging a bat to freezing a moment in a picture, hinting at the idea of permanence.
At least we'll always look the same inside a fatal looking frame
Suggesting that regardless of actions taken, there will be an unchanging quality or essence within.
Don't you move don't you move don't you move
Repetition of an instruction/command not to move, emphasizing the importance of stability or preserving a moment.
Don't you move don't you move don't you move
-Watch the muscles that are moving you pretended
Observing someone's muscles moving while pretending not to move oneself, indicating a fascination with control or stasis.
I could move you too only you and only you
Expressing a desire to be the one who has an impact or influence on the other person.
I wish I could be the photograph you left me
Wishing to embody or be connected to a photograph left behind by someone.
Only you and only you
Emphasizing exclusivity, desiring a connection solely with one person.
Beetlebee, you swing the bat and swing away
Reiteration of the previous reference to "Beetlebee" swinging a bat energetically.
Don't move, don't move
Reaffirmation of the command not to move, reiterating the desire for a fixed state.
Swing the bat and swing away like a picture in a frame
Comparing swinging a bat to the act of freezing a moment, suggesting a desire for permanence.
At least we'll always look the same inside a fatal looking frame
Repeating the idea that despite actions, there will be an unchanging essence.
All the sentimental pain of a picture of a game
Emphasizing the emotional pain associated with preserving a moment, yet acknowledging the perpetual nature of the preserved state.
At least we'll always look the same inside a fatal looking frame
-All the sentimental pain of a picture of a game
-At least we'll always look the same inside a fatal looking frame
-Who are you to say
Repetition of the questions regarding authority over time's progression and the choice to acknowledge or ignore alternative ways time might move.
That time don't move any other other way
-And who are you to look the other way
-When time don't move any other other way
-Who are you to say
-That time don't move any other other way
-And who are you to look the other way
-When time don't move any other other way
Reiteration of questioning the choice to overlook other potential ways time moves.
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