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This page contains the OFFICAL meanings of some of AirVann's songs
HELLO 40 16
Mocking the English language. Making fun of the way we talk and the pointlessness of some conversation.
FISHSTICK HAT
About confusion and demensia. The lyrics "I always wonder why but sometimes I just don't understand why," explain how the person has completely seperated himself from the world around him.
SCARY WOODEN FLOWERS
A mix of songs that were rumored to be on an upcoming album. The first song we hear is the actual song. This song is about the pressures of dieting. How hard it is to give up junk food and rely on healthy food.
MY UNCLE THE RASIN
A noise jam that mocks lawyers and falty law suites.
BUDDHA DIDN'T LIKE SNAPPLE
A song about the first word that is spoken in the song, "Hate." About how people segregate and hate other people for no reason.
THE BALLAD OF CHIPWITCH JOHNSON
About a true story of a strange boy who met his true love, became skitzophrenic, and whos grandmother was actually eaten by mongooses.
I LIKE PURPLE SALSA
Talks about a disease that Chad's mother battled with that causes the person illed with it to be physicall and mentally afraid of anything and everything.
ANCIENT BRAZILIAN FIRE HYDRANT QUADREPELGIC HERO WARRIORS (INDEPENDANT NATION)
Supposedly about waiters who don't wash their hands. As simple as this song sounds, it took the longest to record because Chad said it "...had to be perfect."
MONTANA
Sequil to "Grandma's Lima Beans". About when Archie was young, and his fear of moving away from his hometown, Montana.
ATEINBERA
About a person who gets sucked into a cartoon and remains there forever.
FLOCKING IN THE MEADOWS
About love at first site conflicting with hate at first site. In a way a Bambi meets Gozillia conflict.
SKIDIVING LEMMONS
About people who judge things from their first encouter with it. Like being too quick to really look in depth at what it really is and what it really is like.
ABOUT A SQUIRRLE
A metaphore for being somewhere you can't get out of.
In this case, in the endless circle of a life that is
the squirrle.
SLIDEKNOT NOOSE
Gives form to the deep issues of trajic death and loss,
and pain and suffering.
CAKEBUNDLE ESCAPE
A musical look at the levels of Buddhism, a reacuring
theme with AirVann. It is about the assetics trying
to reach enlightenment through suffering.
NAYBERHUD WATCH
Powerful display of cliches and repative songs through
say and do mocking.
CYCLOPTIC LEPRECHAUN PICNIC SALAD
About how whenever you really want and think that something will turn out great and it never does.
PAULLA
A complicated metaphore for the boring everyday lives of
accountants. This talks about one account wanting more,
wanting to break free.
SLOTH
A complicated story taking skitzophrenia one step further.
In this case, the person is in "split-personality, skitzoph-
renic denial delema." One side of this person is dealing w/
cancer while the other side, the flu. This also talks about
denial situation of this. Both sides have cancer, only one is
not willing to admit it.
FINAL APARTMENT DEBACLE FOR THE THOMAS FUND
A contravercial look at landlords from tennants perspectave.
The instrument put the listener in a state of Nirvana.
PRESERVE THE SANCTITY
Complex look through the eyes of a child of a contract
killer. This whole song is a child's metaphore for killing
people for money.
PRESERVE THE SANCTITY II
A sequal to the original "Preserve The Sanctity." Follows up where the story left off.
IRONY IS BLEEK
Sad instrumental written by Jake about Chad's denial when his
mother died.
PLESANT DREAMS
Humorous look, making fun of extremely heavy metal bands that try
to make themselves look cool by trying to be evil.
i.e. Metallica, KoRn, Pantera, etc.
CRACKER BOY (HIDDEN TRACK)
Sad song about confusion of a young boy experiencing love
for the very first time.
BAGEL OF DESTINY
Song about the preasures of comming out of the closit.
I WISH I WAS A BOWL OF SOUP
Metaphore about a rich person looking at what he has and wishing he was no longer rich but lived a much simplier life.
GRANDMA'S LIMA BEANS
About when Archie ran away from home and how he missed his family.
THE "I ACCIDENTALLY DROPPED MY BABY BROTHER IN THE TUB OF OATMEAL" BLUES
About forgetting just how greatful we really are. How much we spoil ourselves.
THE CHICKEN IS HIGH
This is a song that Archie wrote in about 10 seconds, it was as the album was being cut, so he just wrote it for an extra track.
LOITERING HAM TAPE
About a situation that happened to Brunswick when he was in high school: He had just dumped his girlfriend and she went around school telling all the girls that Chad was "bad in bed". So, to get back at her, Chad got his friend to go out with her, dump her, and then say that she had "both male and female parts". This was all settled when Chad's ex-girlfriend left town.
GRAVITY DEFYING EGGROLLS
About bands who are just in the music industry to make money and get girls, and don't care about the music. AirVann LOATHES band's like this.
GIENR
Stanton wrote this when he was extremely sick. Has no paticular meaning, Jake just worte it to pass time.
LEAVE YOU
A sort of rip off of Led Zeppelin's song "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You". Talks about when Langston's girlfriend left him.
OCCUPATION: S.P.A.M.
Talks about the graphic nature of modern television. The pure hatred that fills the media and is all fed to our children.
SCREW UP
This shows how some bands just don't care. Trying to show the exact oppisite that is AirVann.
B.I.N.G.O. (PRUNE SHRAPNEL)
A song mocking MTV, Z100 and the popular music of today such as the Bckstreet Boys, Jennifer Lopez, Birtany Spears, and N'SYNC.
BUT IT ISN'T (PRUNE SHRAPNEL)
About cheese, obviously.
CALL OF THE CRISPY PANTALOONS (PRUNE SHRAPNEL)
About a very strict mother oppressing a poor innocent child. This song has been in poduction by Brunswick and Stanton for years, since Led Zeppelin VI. They wrote many versions of this song and were dissapointed with their outcomes. They finally recorded this demo during the "Prune Shrapnel Sessions" and were very pleased, but are still working to perfec it.
I PULLED A HAMSTRING YESTERDAY (PRUNE SHRAPNEL)
A jazz look at people who work at McDonald's, especially the ones who make the french fries.
LOOSING MYSELF (PRUNE SHRAPNEL)
Rip off of the song "Drops Of Jupiter" by Train. About high tech equipment.
PROMISE (PRUNE SHRAPNEL)
Pretty obviously about a promise. But also about bagles. So, in essence, about a promise and bagles.
SUSPICIOUS PINECONE
A Brunswick and Stanton wrote when they saw an old lady crossing the streets of New York and a man come up and steal her purse. They wrote this song as sort of a trubute to the low lifes who live in New York City.
EAGER SAUSAGES ARENT WELCOME
About the struggle between peer preasure and the law.
DO GOATS FLOAT?
A question often pondered by Chad Brunswick. He decided to write this song after watching an episode of the "Crocidile Hunter" in which he hunted a goat in water when he was bored.
GRANDMA'S WOOSTAH-SOS
A parody of the AirVann (Langston) song "Gransma's Lima Beans."
UNDERWATER TAPDANCING CHIPMUNK
A truly tragic song about peoples lives that are cut short when they have such great potential. Chad really expresses his sadness about this issue since his Uncle Hagbert was killed by a lemon squeezer at the age of 6.
YELLING AT BANANASr>
A some that remarks at the confusion one feels when a large man smelling of grilled cheese starts to yell at you for wearing suspenders that dont match your hankerchief.
I DONT LIKE MICE
a song paying tribute to the many who have suffered the torture of having to listen to their relatives tell them long and boring stories about basically nothing.
3 DUMBASS PIGS
a song that was inspired by a 3rd grade substitute teacher. He was drunk and couldn't read the words in the book, "the three little pigs" so he just kind of made them up. This is chad's impression of that teacher.
ODE TO BOB
this song has two meanings. first of all, it is making fun of the way bob dylan sings. Second of all, it focuses on how people are more likely to take ballet lessons if they name their son Sedwick or drive golf carts into bathtubs.
BAPTIZE THE LEMON
A song that finds the deeper meaning in the saying, the early bird gets the worm. Once Chad saw two birds flying to get a worm. The bird who got their first bit into the worm and exploded because it was really a land mine worm. The second bird just laughed and ate a taco instead. Sometimes the early bird doesnt get the worm, he gets his head blown off.
THE LEGEND OF HEATHER LOCKLIER'S GRANOLA BAR (secret track)
About how we feel when we think we have something really exciting and cool to say and it turns out that its really stupid and you feel like a moron.
MY SEAGULL MELTED
about a man who dies right in the middle of doing a summersault.
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