Song about disgruntled burn-out dreams of success and what they would do with it.' Reception with Charting Data/Certification/Sales Data Personnel Other Versions Possible Demo Version Reflecting on Big Casio Jim Adkins said the song is 'A loser anthem. Rock on young saviour, don't give up your hopesĪnd they'll say, 'Lord, give me a chance to shake his hand.' (Get up, get up) Boy, you must be dreaming There's still some living left when your prime comes and goes Got an old guitar I've had for years I'd let you buyĪnd I'll tell you something else that you ain't dying enough to know When the girls come talk to me, I wish to hell I hadĪnd they'll say, 'All the salt in the world couldn't melt that ice.'Īnd they'll say, 'Lord, give me a chance to shake that hand.'īack when I was younger, I was someone you'd've liked Well, there's lots of smart ideas in books I've never read

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A lot of the songs start out with me playing drums, making a loop or something, and then playing guitar along with that. Or there's a drum pattern or something, and then it kind of expands from there, usually with the first thing being something that is experimental or a mistake or maybe playing an instrument you don't normally play.

Like there's a guitar riff or something simple, and then it just kind of expands from there. Much later we get to a point where we can decide if it's going on an album or not, or if it's going in the don't-open-until-Christmas pile!įor 'Big Casino,' everything starts as an experimentation and then a reaction to that. It's really just about the song and what we think the song needs. I think that there hasn't been an actual Jimmy Eat World song written since 1996! There is no consideration for how it's going to end up or where it's going to end up. There is really no set way that a Jimmy Eat world song comes into existence. He replied: 'I think overall there are no real rules for how we work on tunes.

asked Adkins who came up with the idea of this song.

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