Band Jokes 5

Nearly Witches

Ryan's version:
basically Ryan's version is creepy af
"as a boy"
it's kinda introspective.. of course the lyrics are open to interpretation but my initial impression was that he was describing himself in a dark way and examining his relationship with his family
honestly it's so sad like he reduces himself to 'a fetish blessed with an operatic skeleton'
'and as the stars watched me descent, I cracked the family tree and chopped off all of the branches' he implies his birth destroyed his family
'I ate my wishes on golden toothpicks and digested them with wolf intestines' he had to give up his dreams, but he. How do I put it in words. He swallowed and crushed them completely...? Kinda self destructive I guess

Brendon's Version:
Pretty, romantic lyrics, the complex lyrics at the beginning are beautiful but I honestly can't relate them to the rest of the song like 'my wingtips waltz across naive wood floors' etc
"as a girl"
mocks the original lyrics "here I am composing a burlesque" in live shows
added French lyrics at the beginning
'How does a heart love if no one has noticed it's presence and where does it go' ahhh!!! It's so good?
fades into "mona lisa..." for the Ballad of Mona Lisa