“Ode to Janice Melt” is a song about falling in love with someone who’s off limits.
It’s also a true story. Singer Justin Kennedy described it like this in an interview with NPR:
Ode to Janice Melt" was the first song I wrote for the new album. It’s a letter speaking directly to a woman I was madl...
The best days of the century
Started out so innocently
I think you thought of everything
It's like you were on Ecstasy
[Chorus]
I don't know
It's very nice and so are you
Oh, I don't know what to do
We were right, so very right
Then again, my heart's a shell, can't you tell
Janice Melt
Maybe it's your celebrity
That makes you want to slum it with me
And then it starts all up again
In this town love's pretend
Sorry about your lobotomy
Removed the part that held all of me
Said it was only me and you
Except your husband, that was true
[Chorus]
I don't know
It's very nice and so are you
Oh, I don't know what to do
We were right, so very right
Then again, my heart's a shell, can't you tell
Janice Melt
I've been waiting for you too long and I'm lost
I've been here too long, waiting here too long