I'm a classic rock fan myself (The Beatles and Styx are my two favorite bands), but this band is my third favorite! They are completely different and original. The song This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race repeats the phrase:
'This ain't a scene
It's a godd*mn arms race'
And the song Hum Halleluia has the lines
'My words are my faith to h*ll
with our good name'
and
'Hired a construction crew
'cause it's h*ll on the engine'
Another song, Bang the Doldrums I think, says
'This city says
come h*ll or high water
well I'm feeling hot and wet'
That's three uses of h*ll, not one as the review says! Also at some points the lyrics make no sense, except in poetic sense such as Golden's
'Tongues on the sockets
of electric dreams
where the sewage of youth
drowns the spark of my teens'
And the song Carpal Tunnel of Love has many, including, but not limited too:
'Stomp out this disaster town'
'We keep the beat
with your blistered feet
and we bullet the words at the mocking birds singing
slept through the weekend
and dreamed of sinkin' with the melody
of the cliffs of eternity
got post cards from my former selves saying how you been?
And we might have started saying goodbye just a little soon
we're throwing stones at a glass moon
Whoah we're so miserable
and stunning
Whoah love songs for the geniunely cunning'
'It was all ice cream headaches and sweet avalanche
but we're the pearls and our shells got up to dance'
'Yawns for fawns on hunters lawns
we're the has beens of husbands
sharpening the knives of young wives
take two years off and call me when your better
take tears of mine and find yourself wetter'
The song Golden is actually a piano ballad and The(After)Life of the Party has a calm feel. My favorite is Don't You Know Who I Think I Am?
'A penny for your thoughts
but a dollar for your insides
and a fortune for your disaster
I'm just a painter and I'm drawing a blank
We only want to sing you to sleep
in your bedroom speakers whoah
get me just right
They say quitters never win
but we walk the plank on a sinking ship
there's a world out side of my front door
that gets off on being down
I could learn to pity fools
as I'm the worst of all
and I can't stop
feeling sorry for myself whoah
We only want to sing you to sleep
in your bedroom speakers whoah
get us right
They say quitters never win
but we walk the plank on a sinking ship
there's a world outside of my front door
that gets off on being down
They say quitters never win
but we walk the plank on a sinking ship
there's a world outside of my front door
that gets off on being down
They say quitters never win
but we walk the plank and we walk the plank ...'
Or something like that. That's almost the end but I'm tired of typing. I hope this review helped!