Analyzing Avril's Lyrics

Here, we take a look at the lyrics to Avril's songs and, for a lack of a better word, rip on them. It's kind of like a MST*. My comments are in red italics and Free Dumb's are in black italics. So, here we go.

"Losing Grip"

Are you aware of what you make me feel, baby
No, apparently not.

Right now I feel invisible to you, like I'm not real
I wish you weren't real.

Didn't you feel me lock my arms around you
Why'd you turn away?
Wow, clingy, aren't we? Dude, you're AVRIL, that's why he turned away.

Here's what I have to say I was left to cry there,
waiting outside there grinning with a lost stare
Wait, wait, you're grinning and crying at the same time? I could never do that.

That's when I decided


Why should I care
You've certainly seemed to care so far, you're throwing a hissyfit because this dude doesn't like you.

Cuz you weren't there when I was scared I was so alone
"Cuz." Yeah. Ever so punk.

You, you need to listen I'm starting to trip,
The two "yous" make her sound like she's stuttering. [/obvious]

I'm losing my grip and I'm in this thing alone

*thumbs up*

Am I just some chick you place beside you to take somebody's place
OH GOD IT'S SUCH A DEEP MEANINGFUL SONG U GUYZ PLZ LISTEN

when you turn around can you recognize my face you used to love me,
you used to hug me
As Avril: And then I got annoying.

But that wasn't the case
Damn!

Everything wasn't ok I was left to cry there
waiting outside there grinning with a lost stare
That's when I decided
To shut up, hopefully.



Crying out loud I'm crying out loud
Crying out loud I'm crying out loud

Introducing Avril's induction into the emo scene.

Open your eyes
Open up wide
Avril just turned into either a dentist or a porn star. I'm going to leave it there.

Why should I care
Cuz you weren't there
when I was scared I was so alone Why should I care
Cuz you weren't there when I was scared I was so alone
Why should I care
This from the woman who's throwing a temper tantrum because her boyfriend broke up with her. Wah, wah, wah.

If you don't care then I don't care were not going nowhere
Note the double negative.

Why should I care cuz you weren't there when I was scared I was so alone
Why should I care If you don't care then i don't care were not going nowhere
This song sounds like poetry a 13-year-old blonde girl with punk rawk0r purple highlights wrote because her crush doesn't like her. My sixth grade poetry assignment sounded better than this drivel.


"Complicated"

Uh huh, life's like this
Wow, in the last song, Avril became an emo kid and now she's a rapper. Whaddaya know.

Uh huh, uh huh, that's the way it is
Cause life's like this
Life's like stereotypical sophomoric drool?

Uh huh, uh huh that's the way it is

Chill out whatcha yelling' for?
I'm yelling because this is a terrible song.

Lay back it's all been done before
"It" meaning "This junior high pop-punk abomination."

And if you could only let it be
you will see
I like you the way you are
Wait, she's singing about this guy being a prep. So she likes him being a prep? I don't get it.

When we're drivin' in your car
THEY'RE driving HIS car? That's grand theft auto! What the fuck, man?

and you're talking to me one on one but you've become

Somebody else round everyone else
Isn't everyone, though?

You're watching your back like you can't relax
You're tryin' to be cool you look like a fool to me
Why is being a prep "cool," nowadays? All these pop-punkers are ritualistically lynching them.

Tell me

Why you have to go and make things so complicated?
I think he just doesn't want to hang out with you anymore. This guy's pretty smart.

I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else gets me frustrated
Avril=Toddler

Life's like this you
And you fall and you crawl and you break
and you take what you get and you turn it into honesty
PUNK RAWK SESAME STREET.

and promise me I'm never gonna find you fake it
I SO don't understand that sentence.

no no no

No no no no no no no.

You come over unannounced
dressed up like you're somethin' else
Just a bit of advice: "Unannounced" and "else" don't rhyme.

where you are and where it's at you see
Another sentence with grammar so atrocious it's hard to understand.

you're making me
laugh out when you strike your pose
LAUGH OUT! LAUGH OUT LOUD! LOL WTF!

take off all your preppy clothes
She wants him to strip for her?

you know you're not fooling anyone
when you've become

Become what, dare I ask? Please, for God's sake, finish your sentences, woman.


"Sk8er Boi"
Wow, a song title in l33t.

He was a boy
She was a girl
Can i make it any more obvious
No, because until now, I thought it was two guys or something.

He was a punk
This definition of "punk," meaning "You can buy my entire wardrobe at Hot Topic."

She did ballet
There's actually a lot of people that do ballet. There isn't anything wrong with it. A lot of boxers take ballet. What's the problem?

What more can i say
He wanted her
Because true punks just ADORE preps.

She'd never tell secretly she wanted him as well
Yay.

But all of her friends
Stuck up their nose
How do you stick up your nose? You can stick stuff up your nose, but...

They had a problem with his baggy clothes

Actually, a lot of preps at my school don't really care about clothes anymore. Now it's about the shoes.

He was a skater boy
If you're gonna spew, spew into this.

She said see you later boy
He wasn't good enough for her
I thought she said she wanted him. What the frick?

She had a pretty face
But her head was up in space
She needed to come back down to earth

OMGALIEN!!!11

5 years from now
She sits at home
Feeding the baby she's all alone
Hold the phone here. These kids are about sixteen during the earlier part of the song. Since this is five years later, they'd be twenty-one. Oh, well. Being twenty-one with a baby isn't as bad as some of the fifteen-year-olds on Maury Povich with two kids and whatnot.

She turns on tv
Guess who she sees
The president?

Skater boy rockin up MTV
Oh.

She calls up her friends
They already know
And they've all got
Tickets to see his show
I could've sworn preps didn't like the "sk8er" music. Why do they have tickets?

She tags along
Stands in the crowd
Everyone stands in crowds at concerts. Even the lawn seats can get pretty crowded.

Looks up at the man that she turned down

Why should she care? She let him go because, apparently, she didn't want him. This song confuses me. First she wants him, then she doesn't want him, then she wants him again. What the hell?

He was a skater boy
You've made that point clear, Lavigne.

She said see you later boy
He wasn't good enough for her
Now he's a super star
Slamming on his guitar
How exactly would you go about slamming on a guitar? That gives me the mental image of some guy going an ollie on a guitar with little wheels on it.

Does your pretty face see what he's worth?
As opposed to your ugly, malformed, pug-dog face.


"I'm With You"

I'm Standing on a bridge
I'm waitin in the dark
For my next client to come and give me thirty bucks for a handjob. No, seriously. Just jump, please.

I thought that you'd be here by now
Theres nothing but the rain
I like rain! DEATH TO YOU, RAIN-BASHER!

No footsteps on the ground
I'm listening but theres no sound

Isn't anyone tryin to find me?
No, you attentionwhore. I certainly wouldn't be. You expect your family and/or peers to come look for you on a bridge? Yeah, a bridge is the obvious place to run to.

Won't somebody come take me home
If by "home," you mean "Econo Lodge" or "Super 8" or "men's restroom."

It's a damn cold night
OOH U SAYED "DAMN"!!!!11 UR H4RK0R NOE!!!1

Trying to figure out this life
[/freshman blather]

Wont you take me by the hand
take me somewhere new
Look, the prostitute-themed song has been done before, and "Jane Says" was terrific. Don't you destroy Perry Farrell's work.

I dont know who you are
but I... I'm with you

Okay, wait. She doesn't know who this guy is, but all of a sudden, she's madly in love with him? I'm telling you, this song is her ode to streetwalking.

im looking for a place
searching for a face
You need a new face, dearie.

is anybody here i know
cause nothings going right
and everythigns a mess
I'll ignore the typo on "everything's" and move on to insult the 9th-grade mindset.

and no one likes to be alone

Not true. I like to be alone. I'm alone right now and I'm enjoying it immensely.

Isn't anyone tryin to find me?
No.

Won't somebody come take me home
Again, no.

It's a damn cold night
Trying to figure out this life
Wont you take me by the hand
Since this song is apparently about whoring, I'm assuming "hand" means "hoo-hah" or the like.

take me somewhere new
A line clearly stolen out of "A Whole New World" from "Aladdin."

I dont know who you are
but I... I'm with you
H to the O to the O to the K to the E to the R.

"Mobile"

I used to live in a mobile home. =D

Went back home again
this sucks gotta pack up and leave again
Well, tough luck, sweetie, you chose to move to L.A. and start touring the globe.

say goodbye to all my friends
can't say when I'll be there again
It's time now to turn around
Turn my back on
EVERYTHING (turn my back on) everything....

Unfaithful wench. I would never just turn my back on my friends like that.

Everythings changing when I turn around all out of my control I'm a mobile.
You're a car?

Everythings changing when I turn around all out of my control I'm a mobile.

Start back at this life
Stretch myself back into the vibe
I'm waking up to say I've tried
Instead of waking up to another TV GUIDE
Okay, these last two lines are nothing shy of inconceivably preposterous. I can't even put it into words. "Waking up to another TV GUIDE." Also note that "TV Guide" is entirely in capital letters.

It's time now to turn around
Turn and walk on this crazy ground oh oh oh....

Oh, that crazy ground! Ha ha ha!

Everythings changing when I turn around all out of my control I'm a mobile
Everythings changing out of what I know everywhere I go I'm a mobile
I'm a mobile

Good for you, darling.

Hanging from the ceiling lifes a mobile spinning round
Life hangs from the ceiling?

with mixed feelings crazy & wild ...
Crazy & Wild makes me think of that old Nickelodeon show, "Wild & Crazy Kids." Am I the only one?

sometimes I wanna SCREAM OUT LOUD ....

SCREAM OUT LOUD?/!!!11??/ WTF MORE LIEK LOL!!!11

Everythings changing
everywhere I go
All out of my control
Everythings changing
Ch-ch-ch-changes, turn and face the strange. Oh, wait, she wouldn't know that. It's by David Bowie, or, as Avril likes to call him, "David BOWie."

everywhere I go out of what I know

la la la la la la (la la)
la la la la la la (la la)
la la la la la la (la la la)
la la la la la la
Yep, no "oh, baby baby" songs for her.

"Unwanted"

You took the words right out of my mouth.

All that I did was walk over
It's enough to make anyone cringe, honey.

Start off by shaking your hands
That's how it went
I had a smile on my face and I sat up straight
Oh, yeah, yeah
So NOT a pop star.

I wanted to know you
I wanted to show you

You don't know me
Don't ignore me
Look, I'd be kind of scared if some ugly little girl I didn't know just came up to me, smiled, and shook my hand. And OF COURSE, I'm not allowed to ignore her. I sure wish I knew what this song was about. It couldn't get any more vague.

You don't want me there
Nope.

You just shut me out
Right on the nose, sister.

You don't know me
Don't ignore me
MAKE ME

If you had your way
You'd just shut me up
Make me go away

Exactly. That's EXACTLY what I'd fucking do, you whorenun***.

No, I just don't understand why
you won't talk to me
Because I don't like you.

It's hurts that I'm so unwanted for nothing
OW THE PAIN

Don't talk words against me
Make me.

I wanted to know you
I wanted to show you

Make me go away

Oh, I'll make you.

I tried to belong
I thought you were all about going against the grain, though. Why are you trying to "belong" if you're such a rebel? You're becoming hypocritical.

It didn't seem wrong
But it feels so right.

My head aches
So does mine.

Its been so long
I'll write this song
Oh, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, don't write about writing the song in the song! UGH!

If that's what it take

Heh, "take."

Make me go away
Make me go away
I'd like to.


"Tomorrow"

Just a note, the word, "tomorrow" was misspelled on the website I got these lyrics from. Just thought I'd let you know, allavril.com.

And I wanna believe you,
Why must you start the song in the middle of a sentence?

When you tell me that it'll be ok,
Ya I try to believe you,
That "ya" makes me begin to think Avril's German.

But I don't

When you say that it's gonna be,
It always turns out to be a different way,
I try to believe you,
Not today, today, today, today, today...

Got enough "today"s, there, Avril-san?

I don't know how I'll feel,
tomorrow, tomorrow,
I luv ya, tomorrow!

I don't know what to say,
tomorrow, tomorrow
Is a different day

Duh.

It's always been up to you,
It's turning around,
It's up to me,
SINCE WHEN?

I'm gonna do what I have to do,
just don't

Just don't what?

Gimme a little time,
Leave me alone a little while,
No, YOU leave ME alone a little while. I'm sick of you.

Maybe it's not too late,
not today, today, today, today, today...

I don't know how I'll feel,
Um, that's pretty obvious. The only people who know how they'll feel the next day are psychics, and even then, they could be off.

tomorrow, tomorrow,
I don't know what to say,
tomorrow, tomorrow
Is a different day

Hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah, and I know I'm not ready,
Hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah, maybe tomorrow

Avril has caused the "Yeah" workers of America to go on strike. Too many "yeah"s have been alotted to this woman and it's making the employees overtired. Producing "yeah"s takes a lot of energy, you know.

Hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah, and I know I'm not ready,
Hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah, maybe tomorrow

And I wanna believe you,
When you tell me that it'll be ok,
Yeah I try to believe you,
Not today, today, today, today, today...

Tomorrow it may change
REALLY?

"Anything But Ordinary"

Yup because you know that's Avril.

Sometimes I get so weird
I even freak myself out
Would it hurt if I said you freak a lot of people out?
I laugh myself to sleep
It's my lullaby
You have one screwed up lullaby there...
Sometimes I drive so fast
Just to feel the danger
Thus which causes you to get arrested for speeding am I correct?
I wanna scream
It makes me feel alive
It hurts my ears

Is it enough to love?
Is it enough to breath?
Here's an idea if you want to be so different stop breathing! Oh yeah and they spelled breathe wrong.
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
I'd be happy to!
Is it enough to die?
I wish you would die
Somebody save my life
Save your life from what? We all know you have a challenging past and all but really are you that much of a Mary-sue?
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please
Save your mindless dribble for someone who cares

To walk within the lines
Would make my life so boring
You have a boring life...well as boring as a poser's life can get.
I want to know that I
Have been to the extreme
Wait, what? I don't understand this at all. How do you not know if you've been to the extreme.
So knock me off my feet
[has a baseball bat] Gladly
Come on now give it to me
I don't want to know what that was about
Anything to make me feel alive
If I pushed you off a cliff would you feel alive?

Is it enough to love?
Is it enough to breath?
Again improper use of breath
Who are you talking to? Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
Believe me if I could I would
Is it enough to die?
Somebody save my life
Whoever this somebody is please don't spare her life
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please
I'd rahter be anything but ordinary please.
She repeats stuff way too much

Let down your defences
Use no common sense
I think Zach from RATM said it best when he said "fuck you I won't do what you tell me." If you look you will see
that this world is a beautiful
accident turbulent suculent
opulent permanent
Why doesn't she use commas between accident, turbulent, suculent, opulent and permanent? Another thing the world is an accident? Since when?
no way I wanna taste it
Who tastes the world anyways?
Don't wanna waste it away
You know what I'm tired of trying to figure her out.

Sometimes I get so weird
I even freak myself out
I laugh my self to sleep
It's my lullaby
You repeat this why? Oh I know because you want people to see how crazy you are.

Is it enough?
Is it enough?
Is it enough to breath?
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
Is it enough to die?
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please
Repeating information again it just makes this song longer and more pointless.

Is it enough?
Is it enough to die?
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please.

Dear god that's about the most headache inducing song I've heard in a while.



*MST stands for "Mystery Science Theater." You know what they did, they'd sit and watch a bad B-movie and make fun of it as it went on. This is kind of what we're doing here, only with Avril's songs instead of bad movies.

**That's not a typo. If you've seen "AGNRY!!11" by DRUNKMAGIKOOPA on Newgrounds.com, you'll know what I'm talking about.

***If you've seen that Saturday Night Live skit with Dieter (of the "Sprockets" skits) having a dream, you'll know what I mean. Great, now I have the Sprockets background music stuck in my head.