The meaning behind Finger Eleven Songs
I have found the meanings behind the well-known F11 songs Quicksand, Tip and Above. If you want to you can read the lyrics first and then come back or you can just go straight ahead. I do not take credit for this material I got it from the F11 website and I am just doing this to help their publicity and you can relate to and appreciate a band better if you understand what they are singing about or at least that's what I think.
Quicksand: Scott Anderson: I wrote this one day when I was so depressed
and I couldn’t figure out why. I wanted answers real quickly why I
was so down. It’s so funny because I think that one of the only
times I’m truly happy is when I write something that actually
works out and becomes part of a song.
Tip: Scott: That song is really about my fear of failure. tip had
completely different lyrics at first, but I just kept working with it
and I kept the name.
James: The song almost didn’t make it into the record. It was a
lot longer and more complicated at first, but when we got into
pre-production the riff stuck because it’s just so cool. It was
supposed to sound like piston sounds in a machine, but we
stripped it down to a bare minimum.
Above: Scott: I think everyone looks to anywhere but themselves for the
right answer. I think that’s pretty silly. The last place they look is
their heart, and that’s the first place they should be looking.
James: This was the first experiment where we started breaking
the mold of having a quiet verse and a loud chorus. It was
written late in the process, and we said, why don’t we do the
opposite. It felt right, and it was something different. Having
broken that unwritten rule that the chorus is the loud part, it
opened a whole new range of possibilities.
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