This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
Back in the garage with my bullshit detector
Carbon monoxide making sure it's effective
People ringing up making offers for my life
I just want to stay in the garage all night
We're a garage band (oh, oh, oh)
We come from garageland (oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
Meanwhile things are hotting up in the West End, alright
Contracts in the offices, groups in the night
My bumming slumming friends have all got new boots
And someone just asked me if the group would wear suits
We're a garage band (oh, oh, oh)
We come from garageland (oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
I don't want to hear about what the rich are doing
I don't want to go to where, where the rich are going
They think they're so clever, they think they're so right
But the truth is only known by guttersnipes
We're a garage band (oh, oh, oh)
We come from garageland (oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
Twenty-two singers, but one microphone
Back in the garage
Five guitar players, but one guitar
Back in the garage
Complaints, complaints, what an old bag
Back in the garage, back in the garage
Back in the garage
Carbon monoxide making sure it's effective
People ringing up making offers for my life
I just want to stay in the garage all night
We're a garage band (oh, oh, oh)
We come from garageland (oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
Meanwhile things are hotting up in the West End, alright
Contracts in the offices, groups in the night
My bumming slumming friends have all got new boots
And someone just asked me if the group would wear suits
We're a garage band (oh, oh, oh)
We come from garageland (oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
I don't want to hear about what the rich are doing
I don't want to go to where, where the rich are going
They think they're so clever, they think they're so right
But the truth is only known by guttersnipes
We're a garage band (oh, oh, oh)
We come from garageland (oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
Twenty-two singers, but one microphone
Back in the garage
Five guitar players, but one guitar
Back in the garage
Complaints, complaints, what an old bag
Back in the garage, back in the garage
Back in the garage
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Great version of a great song,
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In my humble opinion, it's basically about the garage band not selling out like the other bands out there. Other people trying to mutate the garage band into something more commercial, and the garage band refuses to conform. (God that word 'conform' - it's great!)
I can't help drawing a parallel between the first paragraph and death. It just gives me the impression that staying a garage band is like suicide (not the carbon monoxide reference). Perhaps the garage band knows that staying the way they are will never make them sucessful, but do they care?
No.
Just my thoughts. Any ideas?