I think the narrator of this song used to be bullied. "Once a failure, always a retard": he once did something wrong and ever since he's been called a retard by classmates. The offer to his teacher would be a question to stop the bullying, but the teacher felt powerless, hence the "don't look down on me". He's disliked others ever since ("you're all retards anyhow").
He's basically acting high and mighty in the first half. He feels he's superior over others, giving out unsolicited advice and basically predicting others' lives (the whole chorus, basically). After the first chorus he starts changing. "If you don't feel the way I do, it don't matter" seems antisocial, but the third line in that verse, "I'd be flattered", seems to bring a change in attitude. And by the last verse he realizes he's not better and that he's fallen in the trap he told others not to fall in.
Actually thinking about it, your interpretation works for most of the song.
The thought in the chorus that love has to be hard earned and never comes easy, the anti-social tone in the second verse, the general confusion relating to human relationships in the last verse...
Actually thinking about it, your interpretation works for most of the song.
The thought in the chorus that love has to be hard earned and never comes easy, the anti-social tone in the second verse, the general confusion relating to human relationships in the last verse...
I think the narrator of this song used to be bullied. "Once a failure, always a retard": he once did something wrong and ever since he's been called a retard by classmates. The offer to his teacher would be a question to stop the bullying, but the teacher felt powerless, hence the "don't look down on me". He's disliked others ever since ("you're all retards anyhow").
He's basically acting high and mighty in the first half. He feels he's superior over others, giving out unsolicited advice and basically predicting others' lives (the whole chorus, basically). After the first chorus he starts changing. "If you don't feel the way I do, it don't matter" seems antisocial, but the third line in that verse, "I'd be flattered", seems to bring a change in attitude. And by the last verse he realizes he's not better and that he's fallen in the trap he told others not to fall in.
@TheDistracted I think your interpretation works great for the first verse but i dont think it applies as well to the rest of the song
@TheDistracted I think your interpretation works great for the first verse but i dont think it applies as well to the rest of the song
Actually thinking about it, your interpretation works for most of the song. The thought in the chorus that love has to be hard earned and never comes easy, the anti-social tone in the second verse, the general confusion relating to human relationships in the last verse...
Actually thinking about it, your interpretation works for most of the song. The thought in the chorus that love has to be hard earned and never comes easy, the anti-social tone in the second verse, the general confusion relating to human relationships in the last verse...