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| Barenaked Ladies – What A Good Boy Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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One of my favorite BNL songs.. I always interpreted it as a young man (or woman) who has to deal with the expectations that others have placed on them since the day they were born. Those expectations (that name) became a hairshirt, (like savolax said above: a shirt made of rough animal hair worn next to the skin as a penance) they're uncomfortable, almost painful. You never want to disappoint those people, even if their expectations are unreal. But then you get stuck on a path that someone else paved and you're afraid of change but the temptation is always there. I love this song, I could probably babble about what I think it means for hours LOL :) |
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| Barenaked Ladies – It's All Been Done Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I always thought of this song as two separate people.. one who loves life and the other who's bored with everything. Spanning the centuries seems symbolic to living life. The one person keeps saying how the past was more fun and how they've already done everything while the other person is really living and is running down the aisle having a great time. Even the "woo hoo hoo"s could be taken as the bored person sarcastically saying "woo hoo" to life. |
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