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Sorry fans, but this song is pretty dull. I like it better when R.E.M did it as It's The End Of The World As We Know It. The similarities are striking, but the ambiguity of REMs version is timeless, whereas Joel's is pretty much stuck in the 20th Century and topical, and his clawing and groping for significance just makes it pretty daft. Much like Mr. Joel himself.

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I live in climates similar to Norway, with the midnight sun, and early low rise of the morning sun. So it takes a different meaning for me. First, the sun will have been above horizon for a few hours by eight am. Second, I interpreted as a young man, like those who are ready to go at 8 am I’m a night person, so I felt guilty when he was “up” and I was not. Hence loaded gun as an analogy sexually. Say you know you will, has a different connotation. I looked at the video, and I don’t...

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Literally about superheroes. From marvel.com via https://www.songfacts.com/facts/faith-no-more/superhero: Faith No More bassist Billy Gould, who grew up reading Marvel comics, told the website how the song came together. "'Superhero' actually just started from the sound of the song, where it has these pounding drums and it has like this throbbing kind of pulse, and we just called it the "Superhero" song," he explained. "Because, a lot of the ways we write we visualize things." "Actually this is kind of interesting because we're probably a unique band in a way," Gould continued. "While we write music we're talking about chord changes and different things like...

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The first time I listened to this song, I heard the line, “But we could be together as they blow it all away”, I realized that when he wrote this song, at the age of 24, Chris had no hope of the world changing like so many of us did around that age. Because of depression or the lack of world leaders understanding as to what was needed to actually protect our world, there was and still is a feeling about those in leadership willing to end the world through futility and plain arrogance. And if those people were willing to...

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I always thought it was the DEA hauling butt to a cocaine compound. They saw him aim at them and shot him. But then now that I think about it maybe should be more then one boat. Or the cars are rolling in also. So it was a war alright a war on drugs. Congratulations drugs for winning that war.

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We have a ski resort named sugar mountain in the NC mountains. Just saying

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It's definitely about Jamie Stewart's suicidial thoughts, depression and how his faith in mankind is no longer a thing. (given that this song comes after "Petite", which talks about an underage sex worker and the spoken word session at the end was inspired by some photos JS saw on a platform for underage sex trafficking, those might be the things that completely "torn apart" JS's faith in mankind and drove him into his suicidial thoughts)

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Here are the verified lyrics at Musixmatch: She's naked she's hopeful These pillows of soul now keep going She's going To find her way Any answer to these guiding lights To you Tonight I can't love For you are the only one For you are the only one For you are my only one

She aint anchored by love She treats me Like diseased sights for the young No one She wakes me she goes He won't sleep

And now wait for the leaves When can you grow? When can you breath

For you are the only one For you are...

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Here are tye verified lyryics from Musixmatch: Homocidal Opened all my letter Terrorized my friends Push me to the limit Justifies the end

Open wide this can't be real Don't look up you've been erased Don't look back You can't escape Don't give up This ain't no game

Was there any doubt That I could've punched u out You never ever had a chance You never ever had a chance to attack A chance to repent A chance to defend A chance to relax

Open wide you can't escape Don't give up this ain't no game

Never gonna last Never gonna...

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(Sorry about grammar and if this is hard to read.)

When she says my body is made of crushed little stars I think she is touching on the scientific thought that we are literally made of the tiny, micro, stars of the universe. Then the line 'would you kill me Jerusalem?' meets that line and addressing the religious aspect.

The 2nd verse really stood out to me, like it really spoke to me. When she repeats the lines 'I'm going to see the whole world.' she is talking about all of her hopes and dreams in life. The line after;...

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