| Bad Religion – Better Off Dead Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This song is amazingly sarcastic all the way through and i think you have to realize that to understand it. Basically the Brett assumes the role of God and is talking to people that are always complaining about the world. To interpret it this way every line has to be taken as sarcasm. However I also interpret it as a kind of reverse love song. I think basically the person has been blamed for everything in the breakdown in the relationship and is sarcastically apologising about things completely out of his control like the sun and the moon. "the next time I create the universe" is basically meaning the relationship between them, if we ever get together again, etc. The chorus should be taken as literal though but referring to the relationship not actual people |
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| Bad Religion – You Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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To me this song has dual meaning depending on the way you interpret the lyrics. Firstly I see this as a song about heaven. The first verse at first talks about the kind of cliched visions of heaven we have, it being a perfect place with "candy canes and planes and bright red choo choo trains", this line suggests its a nice place. Then in the 2nd part of the verse it talks about how he doesn't share this vision. The 2nd verse talk about how everyone seems to be in such a rush to try and get there "please try not to be impatient" and ends with the line that always haunts me "eternity my friend is a long fucking time" which to me means that, well try and imagine how long eternity is...you wouldn't want to spend an eternity anywhere, obviously not in hell but would you even want to spend it in heaven? I'd rather be alive in a shitty world than alive in a boring heaven. I also see the song as a kind of reverse love song, which im pretty sure Brett has also said in an interview somewhere. It can be interpreted this way if you think of the song talking about a relationship instead of heaven, and the chorus makes more sense this way aswell. |
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