Album: Tell All Your Friends (2002)

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• So sick, so sick of being tired
  And oh so tired of being sick
  We're both such magnificent liars
  So crush me baby, I'm all ears
  So obviously desperate, so desperately obvious
  I'll give in one more time and feed you stupid lines all about "It's basic"
  
  We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore
  We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore
  We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore
  We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore
  
  So sick, so sick of being tired
  And oh so tired of being sick
  Willing and ready to prove the worst of everything you said about
  So obviously desperate, so desperately obvious
  So good at setting bad examples
  Listen, trick, I've had all I can handle
  
  We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore
  We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore
  We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore
  We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore
  
  Think of all the fun you had (We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore)
  The finest line divides a night well spent from a waste of time
  We won't stand for
  And think of all the days you spent alone (We won't stand for)
  With just your TV set and I (Hazy eyes anymore)
  I can barely smile (We won't stand for)
  We won't stand for (Think of all the fun you've had)
  Hazy eyes anymore (The finest line divides a night well spent)
  We won't stand for (From a waste of time)
  We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore (Think of all the days you spent alone)
  Hazy eyes anymore (With just your TV set and I)
  We won't stand for
  Well I can barely smile
  
  Let's go
  He's smoked out in the back of the van (We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore)
  Says he's held up with holding on and on and on and on and on
  He's smoked out in the back of the van (We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore)
  Says he's held up with holding on and on and on and on and on Writer/s: Adam Lazzara, Edward Reyes, John Nolan, Mark O'Connell, Shaun Cooper
  Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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Comments: 9

• Eddie from San Juan, Puerto RicoI am not denying that adam did drugs, but in that video Adam was refering to the painkillers they gave him when he was in the hospital as a joke. But I think the song is about getting off drugs
• Ervo from Muncie, Inyeah back in his younger days Adam had some alchol/drug problems. go on YouTube and watch his preformance of "Baby Your Beard Hurts" he has a hospital wrist braclet and says that he wrote it when we was on some narcotics. sooo yeah. but i do agree with Adam.
• Ervo from Muncie, Inyeah Adam has the meaning down...i love this song.
• Doug from Darien, Cti think that this song isnt just about a break up or just about getting over drugs, its about not doing stupid things anymore, and how Adam isnt standing for hazy eyes, which could mean hes stoned, bored, or crying. either of them works. The song is kinda about how the charecter is in a sense changing himself for the better, and not exclusively to drugs and a relationship
• Brett from Boonville, Moi agree with sasha in the fist post. i don't think it's about the drinking or the drugs but about a girl. most of us guys know that when our friends don't like our girlfriends it's usually because they are keeping them home watching t.v. "Think of all the days you spent alone with just your t.v. set". his friends basically think he is wasting all of his time being with her and is throwing the band and his friends out the window. "The finest line divides a night well spent from a waste of time." while he's with the girl there's is nothing accomplished. all he is doing is wasting the entire night, doing the same thing he did the night before. "we won't stand for hazy eyes anymore" goes with the fact that his friends are not going to look past the fact that their friend is throwing their life away, and now they are going to do something about it. "smoked out in the back of the van" is what he's doing tryin to forget about how he's not happy in the relationship he is in. This is just kinda what i thought about it after reading of the lyrics a few times.
• Tim from South Jersey, Njit's obvious this has to do with stopping drinking or smoking. I've heard rumors that adam was an somewhat of an alcoholic and maybe this sog is about him turnign over a leaf in life. "So sick so sick of being tired and oh so tired of being sick" Sick dealing with throwing up from drinking and tried from doing drugs. He's saying this life he's leading is getting old and wants to stop.Other things like "the finest line divides a night weel spent from a waste of time" possibly meaning its a wate of time unless he gets wasted. Or like "I can barely smile", he's no trashed he cat smile.
• Caroline from Long Island, Nythis does have to do with drugs, "we won't stand for hazy eyes anymore" but i am so sick of everyone thinking that every taking back sunday song has to do with the fued between adam lazzara, john nolan and jesse lacey.
• Rose from Bay Shore, Nyi agree with the comment below me.. except i think it has to do with the whole brand new/tbs thing.. but i definitely think its about a friendship, not a relationship
• Sasha from Belleville, MiI actually think this song is a couple of guys writing about one of the guys in the group and his girlfriend and they're kind of telling the girl that she needs to back off of him. the part about we wont stand for hazy eyes anymore is kind of about how they need their friend to focus on their band or his life instead of coming up with excuses like she does as to why they need to use drugs or drink. and the "he's smoked out in the back of the van" is another thing about them writing about their friend. then the guy in the group who is tellin his girlfriend he wants to end it, thats where the "so sick of being tired", "and I can barely smile", "were both such magnificent liars", etc. comes in.

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