Meaningless?
You mean it's all been meaningless?
Every whisper and caress?
Yes yes yes it was totally meaningless

Meaningless
Like when two fireflies flouresce
Just like everything I guess
Less less yes, it was utterly meaningless

Even less
A little glimpse of nothingness
Sucking meaning from the
Rest of this mess

Yes yes yes it was thoroughly meaningless
And if some dim bulb should say
We were in love in some way
Kick all his teeth in for me

And if you feel like keeping on kicking,
Feel free
Meaningless
Who dare say it wasn't meaningless?

Shout from the rooftops
And address the press
Ha ha ha, it was totally meaningless
Meaningless

Meaning less than a game of chess
Just like your mother said
And mother knows best
I knew it all the time but now I confess

Yes yes yes how deliciously meaningless
Yes yes yes effervescently meaningless
Yes yes yes it was beautifully meaningless
Yes yes yes it was profoundly meaningless
Yes yes yes definitively meaningless
Yes yes yes comprehensively meaningless
Yes yes yes magnificently meaningless
Yes yes yes how incredibly meaningless
Yes yes yes unprecedentedly meaningless
Yes yes yes how mind-blowingly meaningless
Yes yes yes how unbelievably meaningless
Yes yes yes how infinitely meaningless


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    My Opinion

    This song is , without a doubt, about someone heartbroken giving too much meaning to a relationship with the other person who just walked away, and he couldn't believe it was meaningess: You can analyse the different parts with self-denyal, remembering, irony and acceptance throughout the song. The sound of this track seems to be really meaningless, as it was intended to be; but in the end he describes how he really felt, adding 'meaningless' ironicaly to what he really felt about it.

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