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  • 13 Years Ago lostinwonderland
  • General Comment:
    i'm in love with him...seen him perform 4 times now. When he plays this song he tells you that it's a story of how lovely things will be after the apocalypse! There will be tables and chairs...snacks...and all your real friends will be there... And I think "Armchair Apocalypse" is gonna be the title track on his next album!!!
  • 14 Years Ago beyondclarity
  • General Comment:
    In the live concert that is linked from andrewbird.net - before this song he says...

    "This song is about the Apocalypse, and how great it's gonna be, when we can start over"

    I love that outlook
  • 13 Years Ago mylifeaquatic
  • General Comment:
    i was driving to housesit at my grandparents house which is at least ten miles from where i live. the current price of gas is high, so this trip that i find myself taking frequently is costing a lot. i'd been having a rotten week, people were acting subtlely annoyed with me, and the moment that andrew bird began talking about his excitement about SNACKS i laughed. i felt better. thanks andrew.
  • 13 Years Ago shelieh
  • General Comment:
    insomnia + boredom + paint shop pro = :)
    http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e296/shelieh/snacks.jpg
  • 14 Years Ago pheonix
  • General Comment:
    *trade butterfly-knives for adderal
    *we were tired of being mild

    i think this song is about it being the last day of earth (in some form or another) and the narrator has to choose the one person he wants to spend the rest of his remaining time with, and in doing so he has other realizations about just what "friends" are.
  • 14 Years Ago do i run rare?
  • General Comment:
    "if we can call them friends then we can call them on their telephones/and they won't pretend that they're too busy or that they're not alone"

    This part is really delightfully simple and sweet.
  • 14 Years Ago kemekongka
  • General Comment:
    pheonix: thanks for the spot, now that i listen to it, it's definitively mild and not mired. and adderal does fit in.

    do i run rare? (
  • 14 Years Ago kemekongka
  • General Comment:
    right, guess i'll just pick up where i left off, seeing how songmeanings hates me ever so much:

    do i run rare? (loving the newsom reference)
    i love that part as well, in fact, the first "verse" is what made me obsess over this song for so long.

    "just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor" is just amazingly pretty

    as for my take on the song, it is of course horribly subjective and quite possibly one hundred percent wrong, but i see it as some sort of post-economic-apocolypse party song. once all the rules and regulations go to hell we all just kiss, hug and turn into one euphoric world state.
  • 14 Years Ago hemptimes
  • General Comment:
    *on red telephones
    **there'll even be a band

    i think the album sort of builds up to this song and that this is about heaven of some sort.
  • 14 Years Ago stevenleland
  • General Comment:
    "...

    ...

    ...

    I know we're gonna meet someday-"

    That part is awesome.
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