Jimmy Eat World Band • Page 86

I never said "thank you" for that

:,(

 

I like the idea of the song, I just don't really like the song itself that much. Anyone know what "hear you me my friends" means?

 

When my grandma died I was driving to where she lived shortly after I found out and Hear You Me came on shuffle and I wept in my car while I understood what death was for the first time in my life.

It's a really important song to me.

(This wasn't in any way trying to discredit anyone's opinion or say it's bad to not like it. The song came up and I just wanted to share my personal experience with it)

 

I'm not sure. I always assumed the song was about some friends that helped the band when they first started, giving them a place to stay and all that. So maybe it's that?

 

According to Genius the song's about two sisters who were fans of the band who died in a car crash.

Still not sure what the line means, haha.

 

Oh, huh. Interesting

 

Hear you me just basically means "hear me." Odd phrasing, but I had a teacher that used to use "believe you me" all the time.

 

It's from a Weezer song. The song is about Mykel and Carli, who were two sisters who ran Weezer's fan club back in the 90's. "Hear You Me" is from the chorus in that song. Tragically, the two sisters (along with another one of their sisters) died in a car wreck in 1997 after a show. The Jimmy Eat World song is about them and the title comes from the Weezer song.

 

good to know where it came from. Always wondered about that line. Still not entirely sure what "hear you me" means in the first place. But looking it up gave me a lot more information about the song in general which is cool.

 

Yeah maybe it's a southern thing because I've heard both phrases pretty frequently around here. Kind of a redundant phrase but most southern colloquialisms are.

 

Glad to help. Here's a clip of Rivers playing it at a memorial show for them in 97 with an intro from Mykel and Carli's parents. It's heartbreaking but really pretty.

 

Could be mainly southern, but I actually grew up and went to school in western NY. Though, tbh, that area of NY really seems to want to be part of the south lol, I visited earlier this month and saw more confederate flags there in two weeks than I've seen here in probably a year.

 

I never understood what "hear you me my friends" meant until this discussion. I love the song, but the chorus would drive me insane bc I wouldn't understand it. It's the worst kind too where it isn't that you don't know the words, you know and understand them but you still don't get what the narrator is trying to say.

For the longest time, I just assumed that the title wasn't actually in the song and he was saying "here, you meet my friends" with a silent T on "meet" somehow. Sort of like a reverse "Millstone/I'm my own stone" in a way.

 

Idk why it's awful here and we're in one of the better parts of the south.

 

Yeah, Charlotte seems to be one of the more liberal places in the south overall and I still feel pretty damn unsafe/uncomfortable here a lot of the time.

 

Yep. I love Charlotte, I'd like to move there, but even it has rough patches. Here on the beaches it's nothing but rednecks and tourists and they're all drunk.

 

Went to South Carolina university. Columbia is garbage.

 

Interesting. I had no idea that phrase was so uncommon. I guess I always thought it was as common as believe you me which I also just learned is apparently uncommon. I'm from Michigan. We have a bible belt here and lots of southern conservative types so maybe that has something to do with its commonality here. I dunno. Interesting though!

 

I've heard beleive you me a few times, that helps me make sense of it. Always thought that was a dumb phrase though, haha.

 

Well that line makes a lot more sense now.

 

Yeah. The lyric is "I'm my own stone around my neck. Be my breath; there's nothing I wouldn't give." It's common for people to think it's milestone, so you're not the only one!

 

Crazy to think JEW and Brand New stole Nickelbacks style and songwriting.

 

If I get an infraction for this post I totally understand

 

sometimes the truth gets you in trouble.

 

I don't love that song but I can listen to it. I actively dislike GBSB. But I'm just gonna take this as you and me agreeing again