| Say Anything – A Certain Type of Genius Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Possibly my favorite song by Say Anything. Essentially, he sings about the arrogance that afflicted an intelligent and unorthodox individual who bitterly disowned society at some point, declaring that he was above the silly and mindless games he imagined people played. He comfots himself with mental masturbation, basking in mental acquisition. But ultimately he knows how lonely he is, and how little happiness his intelligence has brought him, and how he's really just like anyone else, and that his intelligence doesn't separate him at all from anyone. I imagine that Bemis was one of these kids. He writes a lot about intellectual anguish, about arrogance and pretention, probably to make amends for how arrogant and pretentious he's been. Or to warn kids like him. |
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| Say Anything – Belt Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| As always, however, it's partially tongue in cheek. One of the things that distinguishes Max Bemis is that he can say something and at once fully mean it and mock himself for saying it. | |
| Say Anything – The Last Great Punk Rock Song Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Sounds like he's finally giving up on fooling himself that Anti-Flag's a good band. He gives up on the foolish and overly-simple ideals that mark a lot of punk music. He's growing up, finally admitting that the values and morals and whatnot that he tried to believe in just aren't true. At the same time, he's got an appreciation for these ideals. |
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| Patrick Wolf – Lycanthropy Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It's actually kind of alarming how many people are so willing to simply interpret this as a typical "Be Yourself" type song. Is anyone else concerned about the grizzly metaphors he uses? He's not completely glorifying being independent, he's saying that there's an ugly price for cutting off these parts of your identity. The whole "cut your suffer off" seems like a warning that if you were to do what he suggests you'd become rather inhuman. |
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