Not Your Kind Of People

I think about people who have nothing in their minds (just white noise), rich people, religious people, ordinary people who only think of themselves, people who don't like you because of the differences...

As I'm very different from everybody in various aspects, I can really relate to lyrics. I also have a little of social phobia, I'll just copy a part of the song that's perfect.

"Running around trying to fit in, Wanting to be loved. It doesn't take much. For someone to shut you down. When you build a shell, Build an army in your mind. You can't sit still. And you don't like hanging round the crowd. They don't understand"

We close ourselves inside a shell... We have anxiety so we can't sit still when we're around other people, being observed. It's difficult to feel comfortable with people, you don't know if they'll understand the kind of people you're.

When we get to the end of the song... I need to comment the album too! It's about accepting you as you are, unique, extraordinary. :3

Recently I accepted myself as I'm and I stopped caring about what people will think about me, how they'll judge me. The people seem to aways want something from us, they want us to be extroverted and speak at all times. Well, I can't give them that, I'm very introspective and quiet, I try a little but they'll simply have to accept me this way.

• Check the amazing comment by lightdivided in "Man On A Wire": songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107859431743/

We can't live our lives with the necessity of being understood. Whoever is reading this, I give you this advice: be yourself, understand yourself and don't care about what other people will think.

I'm not sure about it but I've made an interpretation of this part of the song: "You dropped by as I was sleeping. / You came to see the whole commotion." -> "She" (you) had your eyes closed to the solutions, you were asleep in the middle of your suffering. "And when I woke I started laughing. / The jokes on me for not believing." -> But then you realize you can't be shaken by this kind of feeling, you accept yourself, you wake up and laugh at the jokes people made(/make) of you. Perhaps "believing" is related to the "lies" told by these people in the world. I'm giving a loosely interpretation here.

I'd be very thanked if someone could put a light on this stanza. :)

Butch Vig as well as Shirley and the other members have said that this is an "album for outsiders." The title track is an anthem for True Garbage fans who are social outcasts or are 'different' in some form or another. Same with the Closer "Beloved Freak"

Outsiders are beautiful and delicate. Delicate because the way that they see the world is not how others see the world. Constantly seeing different from other people wears on the outsider and pressures them to conform.

It is easy to get discouraged.

-Embrace your differences and take pride in them

BRILLIANT Title Track - ties the whole album together like a title track should. I am tempted to comment on the whole album at once when i think of this song.

I have only begun to dissect this. I know there is more here to comment on. I can't explain the "dropped by while i was sleeping" stanza yet except for the fact that Shirley turns around the "joke on you" element of the title on herself

BTW Brilliant title for an Indie album!? The joke is on 'you' so to speak, A Big F**K You towards haters

I think this song has quite a bit do with the book "The Catcher in the Rye". Holden, the narrator of the book and subject of the song claims to lie about everything, and refers to everyone else as "phony". (in spite of the fact that he himself is "phony") The narrator of the song addresses this by saying, "You seem kind of phony Everything's a lie"

Also, the subject (Holden) wishes only to be accepted by others, "Running around trying to fit in Wanting to be loved"

But keeps getting in his own way in this sense, as his misanthropic nature causes him to dislike others, "Creatures you despise"

It could also be about the plights that LGBTQA people go through on a daily basis. "Won't be cast as demons/Creatures you despise" applies to heterosexual people who think that the LGBTQA people are immoral because of their sexual preferences and therefore, want to cast them as demons because they believe that they will go to Hell when they die. "They don't understand" tells these people that the heterosexuals are just being brainwashed into thinking LGBTQA people are bad because they aren't the way the heterosexuals are. "We are extraordinary people" means that LGBTQA people have something to offer and they are trying to explain this to the heterosexuals so they will understand them. "There's nothing but white noise" refers to the people who brainwash the heterosexuals into thinking that LGBTQA people are bad and the claims that come from sources like the Bible who say that their sexual orientations are unnatural.

I dont know what this song means, but I know its beautiful. This new garbage album is really something

I think it's a song about coming back from Iraq.

When soldiers come back to America they tend to have trouble focusing and getting re-integrated, since they're so used to constant paranoia and violence, They "can't sit still" and don't like being in crowds of people, since in Iraq, a crowd of people can hide insurgents. As the song says, in Iraq the worst disasters could be set off by the smallest mistakes, "it doesn't take much for someone to shut you down." The bit about commotion while sleeping might mean a nightmare - lots of guys have these in the weeks after they're back, as a form of mild PTSD.

"Nothing but white noise" might be an inability to relate to people who don't understand what the war was like. This is why they can't "see eye-to-eye" with civilians. "They don't understand," or have incorrect ideas about the "army in your mind." When they're back everything seems so abnormal, like you "speak a different language," and some feel like the whole war was pointless, a lie that you can see through.

"Not your kind of people" seems to suggest that the American public ignored them or didn't appreciate them, and had them "cast as demons," but the songwriter won't stand for that, since they "are extraordinary people" who gave their all to support a country that doesn't understand them anymore.

Ok i wrote a whole description of this lyrics and i actually came to know that this band is........ILLUMINATI!!!!!

They go against the truth and compel people to reject Christianity.

I should've known better. If you don't believe instead of finding me offensive take a listen to the (lyrics) of the song don't be inspired by the beat of it. These illuminati puppets have one thing they are assigned for and that is corrupt peoples minds in exchange they get their fame and money.

Music is open to interpretation, that's what's so beautiful about it. When I first heard this song my interpretation was crystal clear, and while I'm sure it's different from what most people arrive at it certainly made me chuckle.

To set the stage, there is this rather esoteric branch of behavioural science called Dynamic Mechanism Design Theory. It's actually quite implementable, but because it's advancing so rapidly that it retains the designation "theory". In short, it's comprised of the mathematical systems that enable the creation of psychological rat mazes for people. In practice this means creating a system that learns how a person makes decisions, and creates situations where the choice the person makes, of their own free will, is the same choice the designer wants him to make. The "dynamic" in the title refers to the system's use of revealed preferences, rather than stated preference, as an adjustment mechanism. People often say one thing yet do another. We believe that the "do" portion is more predictively robust. I.e. "We see through your lies." Since most people spend their lives just "running around trying to fit in, wanting to be loved. It doesn't take much" to predict and augment their behaviour.

If society could be separated into just two kinds of people, they would be those who understand and apply these principals (to whatever end), and those who can't. Members of the former "speak a different language," and certainly "don't see eye-to-eye," with the latter.

So, Joe Lab Rat stumbles into the Bilderberg conference…

As he is escorted out, a dialogue ensues (the lyrics of the song)

The dialogue, if you can call it that, is between the narrator ( I ) and the subject ( you). Additionally, there are two groups identified; that which the narrator belongs to, and that which the subject belongs to.

The narrator is attempting to illustrate the distinction between these two groups by drawing attention to specific traits.

The masses seem to be weak minded, constantly searching for external validation of their existence, caught up in superficial subject matter, confused by lies, and constantly searching for acceptance all the while shunning perceived conformity.

The narrator explains that her people are not of this sort. They see through the circular and redundant logic of the others, they recognize the ephemeral nature of the masses sycophantic search for acceptance, and they recognize that there is little chance of the masses ever being able to come to this realization for themselves.

Obviously it's all fun, games, and musing; but that's what I got from this song.

I think that this song is about the plights the circus freaks went through during the time when freak shows were popular. "Won't be cast as demons/creatures you despise" could be directed to society back in the day who decided that these freaks were unfit to function in society and shipped them off to circuses to have people stare at them and their oddities. "We're not your kind of people/Speak a different language/We see through your lies" shows that the freaks are unique in their own ways and refuse to be exploited for their oddities. "We are extraordinary people" is something the freaks might have said in their own minds to prove that they are just as normal as the people who consider them freaks. I saw an episode of the TV show "American Horror Story: Freak Show" where one character said "I am not a freak. I am just as normal as you are". As it turns out, someone (probably Twisty the Clown or Edward Mordrake) is unhappy seeing the freaks live in Jupiter, Florida. I think that either of these suspects just didn't understand them because they've never met them.

It's a song about somoene who likes to pretend he's not accepted due to being different in some way, when in reality he is accepted by many (has more friends and supporters than most), but just cannot accept himself. He also likes to believe he's a rebel, when in reality he is a conformist.