She Won't Follow You

Album: Say Anything (2009)
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  • Vocalist and primary lyricist Max Bemis explained this track to Alternative Press: "This is both a song about being passionately in love with somebody and subverting social standards at the same time because your relationship is so truthful and pure and passionate on so many levels - whether it's like love levels or sexual levels. It's like the very act of loving each other is a statement of defiance against society that doesn't promote human relationships like that; it wants us to sort of not give everything to someone else, whether it be friends or loved ones. When you can find everything that you need in someone - someone like a true love and it's a real thing - it's really a punk rock thing. That's why this song exists. It's especially about [wife] Sherri and her being an individual, and that's one of the reasons I ended up falling in love with her - she was already defying and fighting against the man on her own. She's really creative and not a conformist type of a girl. She's even less conformist than I am, and that's what this song is about."

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