Dinner is Not Over

Dinner is Not Over / There's Something Happening / Keyman / Cupid

**Dinner is Not Over** (commonly shortened as **DINO** by fans)is a short song uploaded by Jack Stauber on May 6th, 2019, along with a music video. It would later be extended into a full song on November 30th, 2019 as a Patreon exclusive. It was later released along with extended versions of There's Something Happening, Keyman, and Cupid on February 7th, 2020 under Jack Stauber's Micropop. This is an anti-suicide song about how tempting death may be, but you must make it through life to achieve it.

## Lyrics

The **bolded** lyrics were included in the original short.

[Hook]

**Dinner is not over**

**Dinner is not over**

Dinner is not over

Dinner is not over

[Break 1]

You said something's wrong

And I could say the same to you

Broken over and over again

What else can I do?

[Chorus]

**I've tasted friendship (Ha-ha)**

**I've tasted you (Oh no)**

**I've tasted dying and it tasted good**

**I've tasted heartbreak (Wow)**

**I've tasted food (Uh oh)**

**I've tasted dying and it tasted good**

**But that's dessert**

**You can have it when the dinner is gone**

**But that's dessert (Uh-hoo-ah-oh-ah-oh)**

**But that's dessert**

**You can have it when the dinner is gone**

**So put it down**

(It's the same in your way)

[Hook]

Dinner is not over

Dinner is not over

Dinner is not over

Dinner is not over

[Break 2]

You say, no more ways

And now you've got to choose

You said "I've got the power to go any night"

And darling, it's true

[Chorus]

I've tasted friendship (Ha-ha)

I've tasted you (Oh no)

I've tasted dying and it tasted good

I've tasted heartbreak (Wow)

I've tasted food (Uh oh)

I've tasted dying and it tasted good

But that's dessert

You can have it when the dinner is gone

But that's dessert (Uh-hoo-ah-oh-ah-oh)

But that's dessert

You can have it when the dinner is gone

So put it-

[Bridge]

One, two, rise and leave me blind (Alright)

And I feel it coming all the time (No way)

But I really wanna draw the line (Okay)

When you wanna keep me out of my mind (Hey, what?)

You want to hold me down until I'm fine

Down until I'm fine

Boy, you hit me really fine (No way)

And I wanna, wanna multiply (Okay)

But I'm never gonna see the light (Hey, what?)

Because everybody's gonna hold me down until I'm fine

Down until I'm fine

Middle of the story we got all the past in view

Got to where living was something you'd do

For the time

[Chorus]

I've tasted friendship (Ha-ha)

I've tasted you (Oh no)

I've tasted dying and it tasted good

I've tasted heartbreak (Wow)

I've tasted food (Uh oh)

I've tasted dying and it tasted good

But that's dessert

You can have it when the dinner is gone

But that's dessert (Uh-hoo-ah-oh-ah-oh)

But that's dessert

You can have it when the dinner is gone

So put it down
## Meaning

Dinner is Not Over is an suicide prevention song that tells the viewer that despite how tempting it may seem to end your life and meet death, you still must go through and experience all the life that you can before doing so. This is represented through food-themed metaphors, mainly connecting "dinner and dessert" to "life and death". Death is represented through dessert and how one would really want it and be tempted to achieve it as early as possible. However, dinner, which represents life, is more important for you and how you must complete and get through as much of it as you can before being able to truly be awarded with death. There will be bad moments, such as heartbreak, but there will still be good moments worth living through, such as friendship. Because of this, Jack tells to viewer to "put it down" which is a lyric that can be connected to any forms of suicide, though based on the music video, it could most likely be referring to a noose and hanging.

## Notes

Dinner is Not Over is considered one of Jack's most innovative and creative songs with its message and its food-themed metaphors to go alongside it. This has resulted in the song becoming one of Jack most well known songs to date, being popular on the Internet and being commonly associated with fan-made videos and animations. The song itself is liked for its pop-rock sound and its energetic nature, especially during the bridge of the extended version. The music video is also enjoyed for its creative, though dark, imagery themed around food to portray the song's message. The paper cut-out style of the music video has also made the music video stand from the rest of his videos.

## Trivia

* Dinner is Not Over was teased on Plopscotch on May 5th, 2019, which shows a behind the scenes photo of the food cut-outs seen in the music video.
* The captions of the original Patreon upload of the extended version of Dinner is Not Over reveal that the extended version was likely planned to deliberately be uploaded around the Thanksgiving season.
* The cover and promo video for the Turkey EP are based off this song, with it being the opening track of the EP.
* The extended version of Dinner is Not Over, along with the other songs on the EP were Jack Stauber's first public songs of 2020, unless you count video man.
* The extended version of Dinner is Not Over would be Jack's longest song of 2020.
* The music video for Dinner is Not Over was created with only the usage of his left hand due to a stunt injury that he had gotten into prior to creating the video where he would break his collarbone and right hand.
	+ Jack would write a note in the description of the music video on select social media platforms reading "made with left hand" which would reference the injury. This note would also appear on the music video for Good Luck Chasing Your Mind and the help cartoon.
	+ This video would be the last video to feature the left hand note, as he would fully heal from his injury a bit after the music video's upload and the following video would exclude the note.
* On January 26th, 2020, twelve days before the extended version was released, Jack would upload clay art Plopscotch of multiple arms tormenting a screaming human. The captions of the post would notably be lyrics from the extended version of Dinner is Not over, reading "everybody's gonna hold me down until I'm fine".
	+ Some fans have speculated that this could reveal that the extended version Dinner is Not Over could have had a full music video, but was likely scrapped. Some fans, however, also believe that this post was just a simple teaser towards the upcoming release of the Turkey EP.
* This, along with the other extended songs on the Turkey EP were infamous for not being officially generated onto YouTube Music until August 2022, two years and six months after the EP's initial release, causing fans to have to only listen to the songs through unofficial or fan-made uploads on YouTube.

## Gallery

* Trivial Media
* Screenshots

Plopscotch teaserPlopscotch art sharing the same lyrics to Dinner is Not Over Extended in the caption

Music videoSong revealExtended reveal