| Sum 41 - The Lyrics |
| A look at the writings of Deryck Whibley |
| NB. This webpage is a continuation of this - probably better if you read the first part before starting on the second. |
| THE LYRICS of Sum 41 are quite widely known - come on, don't tell me you're on a Sum 41-related site and have never caught yourself singing "Motivation, such an aggravation" for no apparent reason. :) To most, they're just quirky, addictive little tunes that you hear and then end up with them stuck in your head for hours. But for others, such as the people mentioned in the first page of this, have found themselves thinking heavily and even becoming obsessed by them. Here's a few examples of this. |
 |
 |
| James Deryck Carpenter is known to us as possibly the biggest (or, rather, the smallest) Sum 41 fan ever. When he wasn't singing 'In Too Deep', which was his favourite, he was singing another random song from 'All Killer No Filler', and if not that, he was singing a random song from 'Half Hour Of Power'. He would have loved 'Does This Look Infected?' - but the sad thing is, he didn't live long enough to hear it. His obsession with Sum 41, especially the body of frontman Deryck Whibley (true James quote - "I would die to look like Deryck"), drove him into anorexia and then death. At his lowest weight of 49lbs, he still thought he was "too fat to be Deryck". Even though Deryck is thin, I'm sorry James, but I doubt very much that Deryck weighs that little. I have no idea, but it's a guess. |
| James listened to 'In Too Deep' and thought, "This is me". He was 'in too deep' with his eating disorder, and he was 'faster falling, stopping and stalling, running in circles'. This is just one lyric of many from 'In Too Deep' which he related to. He started to believe Deryck was also anorexic and that they were soulmates, meant to be best friends, meant to be eating-disordered buddies. This, however, never came true. |
| As a result of this, a website named, strangely enough, 'In Too Deep' was put up by James's cousin Kate Edinborough and yours truly. We wrote down all the mad speculations that James and the people on his ward (you found out about them when you read the first page - you did read it, right?) about Whibley being an anorectic himself, and included an analysis of the song 'In Too Deep'. |
| Both the analysis and the website are now gone forever as neither Kate nor myself had time for it. We have also worked out now that Deryck is very much non-eating-disordered, just thin, so it wasn't really worth putting our untrue opinions up and getting some fans to believe that they were pure fact. They weren't. |
 |
| Deryck says .... |
| "The faster we're falling, we're stopping and stalling, we're running in circles again. Just as things were looking up you said I wasn't good enough, but still we're trying one more time. Maybe we're just trying too hard, when maybe it's closer than it is too far." - In Too Deep "You said it once before, we don't do the things we used to any more. You say in doubt, we're fading out, forgetting who we used to be. Cuz I will bring you down, I don't wanna miss, I don't think you can handle this, you've lost what you can't find, never what you had in mind." - Handle This |
| "I don't wanna hear you bitch no more, I was better off a year before, no matter how I try I can't ignore, every time I think my brain gets sore, when I'm with you." - Crazy Amanda Bunkface "Was happiness a fad, or was it in the lost and found again behind the issues? It might not be so bad, we're all addicted to our tragedy, I guess it's what it had to be." - Nothing On My Back |
| Above are just some of the lyrics, which have nothing whatsoever to do with eating disorders, but can be easily misinterpreted by a disordered Sum 41 fan. Fans like to think that their favourite artist's songs relate to them. Trust me - many a time I've found myself fiddling with the meanings of James songs, although I know what they are. |
| A Deryck fan named Dave Martin, mentioned on the first page, found even the names of the Sum 41 songs ED-related. "For example," he said, 'Fat Lip' suited us because we all thought we were fat, and I remember being told that I'd die of a 'Heart Attack' if I didn't stop losing all this weight. Along with the lyrics you mentioned, the way they touched us was so freaky. It wasn't just Deryck's looks that made him our idol - it was his words too." |
 |
 |
 |
| JAMES I like to fiddle with them. That and go completely off topic. Meh to it all. |
| So there you have it - conclusive* evidence that Deryck is trying to kill us all and is with the biscuits in every single thing he ever does. He is also eating-disordered, like everyone I've interviewed (except Kate) and, I hate to say it, but myself as well. My God, I have something in common with The Talented Mr. Whibley, ARG ARG ARG! |
| *completely inconclusive |
| THANKS I would like to thank Kate Edinborough, Lissa Green, Dave Martin and Emma Simpson for allowing themselves to be interviewed by a girl as weird as me. I would also like to thank Kerryn and Scott Carpenter for allowing me to use James Carpenter's name. I'd also like to thank James Carpenter himself, Rest In Peace, mate. We all love you. I'd like to thank Deryck Whibley for giving me someone to talk about, and I'd like to thank Pooka for keeping me alive. Thanks! :) |
| my e-mail : [email protected] |