Time to do what I do best: rant about bands.
So, we first heard a live demo version of The World Is Ugly back in 2009. Probably written (99% sure it was written) right after TBPID in October/November 2008. And when we first heard it, it was a slow, melancholy (albeit absolutely beautiful) song. But it was spiteful, and hateful, and well, it always made me sad. It made me absolutely, horribly sad to listen to because the rawness and emotion in Gerard's voice hurt. And it wasn't nice. As a result, I never really listened to the song as much, because I couldn't bring myself to. Never the less, when it was announced that it would be on the 3rd installment of Conventional Weapons, I was interested (because unlike, say, Stay, the demo version was on hand held cam from an audience member at a concert, unlike Stay which was a demo, but still professionally recorded). It was a chance to see what they'd done with the song, from 2008 touring TBP to the recording studio in late 2009.
So, as expected, I have been anxiously waiting to hear the studio version of the song. And I heard it yesterday. And wow. It has completely and utterly changed. The lyrics and melody of the chorus are exactly the same "The world is ugly, but you're beautiful to me", but WOW has the meaning changed. It's changed from something spiteful and throwing it back in the face of who Gerard is singing to, to being something that isn't intended to hurt. It's meant to say "you're beautiful to me and this is what makes everything else in the world worth it", where as the original was more talking about "you're beautiful to me but even you don't make this world worth it". And why in hells name would I want to listen to anything that told me that the last beauty in a shit world had left? And although it still sounds like a song where they're leaving each other, it doesn't sound like an end, y'know? It sounds like a parting, not an ending. I don't know. Sort of a "You're still beautiful, you still light up this world, even if the world isn't mine anymore"
I don't know.
So, we first heard a live demo version of The World Is Ugly back in 2009. Probably written (99% sure it was written) right after TBPID in October/November 2008. And when we first heard it, it was a slow, melancholy (albeit absolutely beautiful) song. But it was spiteful, and hateful, and well, it always made me sad. It made me absolutely, horribly sad to listen to because the rawness and emotion in Gerard's voice hurt. And it wasn't nice. As a result, I never really listened to the song as much, because I couldn't bring myself to. Never the less, when it was announced that it would be on the 3rd installment of Conventional Weapons, I was interested (because unlike, say, Stay, the demo version was on hand held cam from an audience member at a concert, unlike Stay which was a demo, but still professionally recorded). It was a chance to see what they'd done with the song, from 2008 touring TBP to the recording studio in late 2009.
So, as expected, I have been anxiously waiting to hear the studio version of the song. And I heard it yesterday. And wow. It has completely and utterly changed. The lyrics and melody of the chorus are exactly the same "The world is ugly, but you're beautiful to me", but WOW has the meaning changed. It's changed from something spiteful and throwing it back in the face of who Gerard is singing to, to being something that isn't intended to hurt. It's meant to say "you're beautiful to me and this is what makes everything else in the world worth it", where as the original was more talking about "you're beautiful to me but even you don't make this world worth it". And why in hells name would I want to listen to anything that told me that the last beauty in a shit world had left? And although it still sounds like a song where they're leaving each other, it doesn't sound like an end, y'know? It sounds like a parting, not an ending. I don't know. Sort of a "You're still beautiful, you still light up this world, even if the world isn't mine anymore"
I don't know.
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