No Shows Lyrics
Been weeks I been living
And your smiles are giving me all types of treble
Weak knees I been given
And those nights are making me star-struck and metal
[Pre-Chorus]
Stay free, don’t go
'Cause we don’t need no
[Verse 2]
Try to be living as your vice
And can you be my type?
'Cause we need to be given a good life
And can I be your type of metal?
[Chorus]
Stay free, don’t go
'Cause we don’t need no shows
We don’t need no shows
We don’t need no shows
[Verse 3]
Pay for the devil, a plug to a pedal
I’m your type
Weak knees from the level, I’m sick from the treble
I’m your type of metal
Weak knees don’t go
'Cause we don’t need no shows
[Bridge]
She’s sweet as battery, man, I got nothing
You kiss an enemy’s hands, I got nothing
We got an animal band and that’s something
It’s not love if it’s just fucking
[Outro]
We don’t need no shows
We don’t need no shows
We don’t need no shows
We don’t need no shows
About
Gerard has mentioned in multiple interviews what this song is about. In the “Pink Station Zero” interview/skit Gerard stated:
The message with “No Shows” is not needing to fit in in order to belong to something. You don’t need the lights, you don’t need the stage, you don’t need the band playing in front of you. You just need another person and the connection you have with them.
They also discussed how the music on Hesitant Alien isn’t what’s popular anymore, and it’s a sound few other if any other current artists sound like. So despite Gerard not fitting in with the music community, he is still belongs in it.
Gerard said something similar in a Hot Topic interview. He stated,
[“No Shows”] really deals with not having to be a part of something in order to belong.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
The most important song to me is “No Shows,” and I think that’s the song where I realized I was in fact making an album and it was in fact going to be ambitious. It wasn’t just going to be a simple noise rock record that I just kind of put out quickly. It was something I wanted to spend a little more time on. The song itself really encapsulates what I think the record is representing — not needing to belong to something in order to fit in. Not needing the lights, not needing the stage, not needing to go to the show, not needing to be a part of the scene, just you’re different, and that’s actually how you fit in. I learned to accept my place in music as, I’m extremely different but that’s how I’m needed and that’s why I belong.
- 1.The Bureau
- 2.Action Cat
- 3.No Shows
- 4.Brother
- 5.Millions
- 6.Zero Zero
- 7.Juarez
- 11.Maya The Psychic
