Dashboard Confessional Songs - The Swiss Army Romance Lyrics

Dashboard Confessional - The Swiss Army Romance

Dashboard Confessional - The Swiss Army Romance Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Swiss Army Romance
Released: 2000

The Swiss Army Romance Lyrics

Sleep with all the lights on
You're not so happy
You're not secure

And you're dying to look cute
In your blue jeans
But you're plastic just like everyone
You're just like everyone

And that face you paint is pressed
Impressing most of us as permanent
But I'd like to see you undone

College night will draw the crowds
Dorms unload and you're heading out
Here is your moment to shine
Making up a history
It's nothing from the life you lead
But man, will they buy all your lines

Sleep with all the sheets off
Bearing your mattress
Bearing your soul

And you're dying to look smooth
With your tattoos
But you're searching just like everyone
You could be anyone

And those friends you have are the best
Impressing most of us as permanent
But I'd like to see you undone

Youth's the most unfaithful mistress
Still we forge ahead to miss her
Rushing our moment to shine
Making up a history
It's nothing from the life you lead
But man, will they buy all your lines

We're not twenty-one
But the sooner we are
The sooner the fun will begin

So get out your fake eyelashes
And fake I.D.s
And real disasters ensue

It's cool to take these chances
It's cool to fake romances
And grow up fast

And grow up fast
And grow up fast

Writer/s: CARRABBA, CHRISTOPHER ANDREW
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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The Swiss Army Romance

The title track to the first Dashboard Confessional album, this song is about teenage girls trying to grow up fast. They wear makeup and tight jeans and use fake IDs when really they're very unsure of themselves and putting on an act. Chris Carrabba wrote the song because he felt like girls were missing the best years of their lives because they wanted to act older than they were. (thanks, Kerry - New York, NY)

In live versions of this song, Carrabba sometimes changes the lyric to the first person: "I'm dying to look cool with my tattoos, but I'm searching just like everyone, I swear I could be anyone."

Carrabba would sometimes dedicate this song to the fans who came out to see his shows before he was popular.