All
these meanings are exactly as quoted by the boys themselves............
No
Association... " No Association we went in thinking yeah, this song
will be alright but when we actually recorded it and listened to it back
we were just like, that's a joke. We can't belive how it has turned out.
I think it is one of the heavier songs on the album and thats what I like
about it."
Ben Gillies
FREAK....."I
think Freak's going to be the first songle off the album just.....I dont
know ....just to lead people into the album. We don't want to release something
mellow first because we want to get the idea across that we've developed
and got a bit heavier- the music's got a bit harder edged."
Daniel Johns
The
Door....."Yeah, It's influenced a lot by Zepplin and anything from
that era really. Before the album, whe I actually wrote it and showed Ben
and Chris, Ben and Chris liked it and they were like- they wanted to continue
working on it and write a bit more, I didnt really like the song. And they
were like Oh come on we'll just use it and so I said Yeah alright, just
to see how it would turn out. And it ended up changed a little bit and
now I'm really happy with it. And it was actually called the Poxy Song
for a while. Thats what we named it just because we didn't really like
it that much, Oh well I didn't. And then we just called it the Door because
that was the main lyric I guess."
Daniel Johns
Abuse
Me....."Most of the songs on the album are about being percieved
as being differnet just because you tour around the country and stuff.
Like they just throw negative comments at you all the time. They don't
really know what you're like. And that's what Abuse Me is kind of like
because the lyrics are saying, forget about 'em, throw 'em away. It's kind
of a joke in ways, thats why it's so mellow but its such a kind of aggresive
lyric but it's a rally like mellow song. That's the idea behind that anyway."
Daniel Johns
Lie
To Me....."Daniel's really influenced by Minor Threat and most of
their songs go for like a minute, two minutes and..... we came into practise
one day and we said lets write a song and we were all like yeah okay. And
then Johnsy goes aww, I've got this riff and he just showed it to us. Then
we all just started playing and just stopped. He sais thats the song, thats
cool. And that was it. I would say it must have been the quickest we have
ever written a song."
Ben
Gillies
Slave....."Slave
was actually the first song we wrote after "Frogstomp." That was like really
hard backbeat like a , you know , kind of Helmet. Tool really heavy back
beat and melodic aswell. Yeah, The oldest song on Freak Show."
Ben
Gillies
Cemetery...
"Cemetery was also written lyrics first. A friend's got a little
demo thing. And I just went around and just recorded it with an acoustic
guitar and sang on it. I didn't really want it to be a silverchair song,
I wanted it just to be a song for, I don't know, something else in the
future but I'm pretty glad we put it on now'cos it gives the album a bit
more depth. Like it's another, like just another different style of music
thats on the album. When I wrote it I didn't think it was catchy. We just
thought it was like a song just to play live and it was a good song for
the album but none of us ever considered it to be a single."
Daniel Johns
Roses...."
Roses was written in rehearsal. Yeah. aniel came in and he had this tune
and I had one, and basically we just joined them together and they sounded
cool and then we came up, well I came up witht he drum thing at the start
and that seemed to work, so it was cool."
Ben Gillies
Pop
Song for us Rejects...."Thats about ummm....drug addiction or any
kind of habit holding you back from doing what you want to do really. It's
just about not getting to do what you want to do and complaning about not
getting what you want, but it's just because you're not trying to get what
you want because you're always ****ed up doing drugs or alcohol or something.
It's just saying it's really stupid."
Daniel Johns
Learn
to Hate....."Well, Learn to Hate, Ben actually wrote all the music
for and when he gave me the music and said write lyrics for this I already
jhad lyrics that I'd written that fitted in perfectly. So it was just....thats
one of the one's that I already had lyircs for. It's just about like, hate
and stuff and how people hate other people for silly reasons."
Daniel Johns
Petrol
and Chlorine.... "We got a guy in that played these weird Indian
drums. I don;t know what they are called...they made a ....like they went
oowwhh. And then we had this girl that played a sitar and we had a guy
that played the violin. It actaully made me think about going out and maybe
grabbing a couple of Indian drums or something and just, you know, mucking
around on them and see what I can do."
Ben Gillies
Nobody
Came.... "Nobody came turned out really good. It is kind of like
the long song of the album, the long stretched out song. Yeah we actaully
didn't have any songs with the big ending, with the you know, double kicks
going off and everything just as loud as possible, so that was the song,
Nobody Came. It was the loud one."
Ben Gillies
The
Closing.... " I think the closing is a good track because it is
called The Closing, so it's good for a closer, but I like it....I think
that's a good song live too because it is really easy to mosh to and thats
our whole potential when we play live. I actually wrote all the music for
that by myself and I came into practise and showed Daniel and we just jammed,
and then he started songing, I dont know, some stupid words to it, like
he always does (laughs). And then yeah, it just moulded together like they
do." Ben Gillies
