1901 Lyrics

I thought he said Ballin.... or fallin, but i never thought 'fold it' haha, boy was i wrong.

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Wolfgang amadeus Phoenix is a great album!
1901 has that awesome electronic sound but also give lizstomania, fences and countdown a listen. Shit they're all great songs. Go buy the cd! Steal it! Anything!

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Every lyric site says that he is singing "fold it fold it"....etc but there is a video on youtube where they recorded this live, and if you watch his mouth at the very end, it really looks like he is either saying "Folded, folded" or "Fallin Fallin".....? Is there an official source for the lyrics, like included with the actual album or on their website or something?

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Yeah, the past and future!! is the way it was and the way it is now...............The song kicks $#@! ..........the beat and its so unique in sound. I love how his voice is so off sounding. I heard their other songs too! not too bad...............I like it!

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Fold it... relating to folding a piece of paper with the french phone number on it??? LOL. yeah right

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huh...i always thought he was saying "fallin fallin fallin" ..which might explain why it took me so long to find it, hahaha. Also..i think it's kinda funny how you guys dig so deep into it...it's just a cool song, idk what it means, but it doesn't really matter cause all the different lines apply to different people anyway...that's the beauty of music.

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lolz this iz da bestes song eva and i prb just brock like a jillion grammer rulez right there!!! this song iz NOT bout sex pplz!! not everything has to be!!

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this is still the same person from the last comment, but ill go on...ill be anything you ask and more is the feeling he cant give up still haunting him, cuz he still wants her back but is powerless...girlfriend drifting away...obvious...and 18 55 19 01 could be a french phone number, of the girl...not a miracle we needed (each other) he is saying how its not hard to see why they fell in love initially, and maybe the meteor tower line is about a new guy she has, but its not meant to last, just a rebound...but it doesnt matter...he just has to let her go and fold it, fold his hand...terribly brilliant song. i can relate far too well.

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the song to me is about a guy moving on from a girl he really loved. she is playing with his head, and one day she wants him, the next not...moving in eliptical patterns...in an ellipse, one part you are close in the orbit, one part far. and she does not know what she really wants, "what you say is way too complicated" and he didnt know how to let her go "for a minute i couldn't tell how to fall out" but knew he had to...fold it fold it...he has to move on (there is plenty more here, but its a beautiful, symbolic song of struggle and lost love)

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poop is like a stinky night like 1901 it is a beautiful song gggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaattttttttttt

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not gonna lie thought it was ballin' figured it couldnt but really hoped it was

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i always thought it was fallin' too.

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Great song. I will include this song in my sreenplay. You fall someone you should not.

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i was alomost certain the lyrics were fallin fallin fallin fallin
i guess nott xP

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Hahaha, I always thought he was saying Ballin' Ballin' Ballin;
Haha, I guess nottt.
Then I thought I was Fallin'
But I wasn't sure.
And that's why I did this.
XD

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i always thought he was saying "fallin, fallin, fallin, fallin..." thats one of the reasons i loved the song. =[ i guess its "fold it". oh well i still love it.

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this song lifted me up. good music, i love the lyrics the beat everything

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Like the song but is it Meteor tower cause it really sounds like Material Tower just wondering

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Going hay hay hay hay hay hay
I love phoenix
Great Great Song
hahaha
Also a really great band. One of the best out right now, without adout.

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I love this song. It gets me excited for life! I think the lyrics are describing the perpetual cycle of giving things up. And the 1855-1901 I think is actually (01) 18 55 19 01- the girls phone number in France. What's with the slavery comment? Wha? and finally, was the anonymous person with the comment about the intern scenario actually involved in the story behind this song?

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it's about falling for an intern two weeks before he/she has to go back home. He's 21 you're 30, but you're always the one yelling out at last call trying to have all the drinks, fun and sex you can have.

it ends, but it's not like it was ever gonna last. Long distance sucks, and you really didn't have that much in common anyway, even if you do visit the town he lives in about 4 times a year.

It woulda taken more than a miracle

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i always thought of it as a falling out. trying to say that things will be fine when you know that everything is about to change, doing everything you can to keep things the same and you're just focusing on simplicity to avoid reality. but i'm probably crazy.

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i gotta say anonymous 2 down from me has got it right. if the past was easy and this is now, we're screwed

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This song is about slavery people.

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i think it is about how the present and the past are so different, how less complicated it was to live in the past. and their ideas of the past changed and drifted away as our present(now)decides how the future is gonna be.

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