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Jack Johnson – The News Lyrics	20 years ago
(i.e. song “It’s all Understood” : “the news was spread all over town. And fact is only what you believe. And fact and fiction work as a team.” This time sung from the point of view of an adult)

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Jack Johnson – The News Lyrics

20 years ago

Im afraid that so many of the people commenting on this song are missing the point. Yes Jack Johnson asks the question, "Why don't the newscasters cry when they read about people who die," but he is asking it as a child. From a child's point of view, death is so tragic because they have been raised to love life and they can’t come to terms with something they love ending forever. As adults we realize that death is a necessary and unavoidable part of life. We do become desensitized to death through the media, but it is only truth that they are reporting. Jack is simply retracing his experience with the news to find out when in his life he became desensitized to death. Also he is asking how we as conscious beings process the truth that is being reported. He is asking if because as a child he was told the news was "just make believe" can he ever truly understand what is being reported or will he always see it as something foreign to himself and his life?

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Jack Johnson – Posters Lyrics

20 years ago

I think it is so easy to become the people jack is describing when your desire is to be happy and you can't figure out what in life makes you happy. You are confused and don't want to be alone. So you conform to what you see in other people, and when you're a "superficial, systematic, music television (MTV) addict" its easy to become the people Jack's describes (being that the majority of the people portrayed on MTV are self-centered and driven by a shallow sense of sexuality). But the worst part is not the conformity, but the fact that you are so detached from yourself that you can't see any escape from the conformity "She hasn’t had a day to relax, since she’s lost her ability to think...clearly." I think "It's All Understood" does a good job of applying this individual issue to a larger scale. It shows that even once you have become above this shallow sense of self, everything in the world has so many sides and spins to it that it's near impossible to figure out what you believe anyway. Sooooo...

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Guster – Airport Song Lyrics	20 years ago
When I hear the ping-pong, I imagine two head shaven cult followers wearing all white and playing ping pong without any desire to actually win. Just hitting it back and forth in a mindless daze.

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Pedro the Lion – I Do Lyrics

20 years ago

I think this song is sung from the point of view of a young man that has reached a turning point in his life. He no longer has hopes. The man had a lot of dreams growing up. The dreams gave him motivation in life, a purpose to live. At the point when he has the child, he realizes that his dreams are no longer a possibility. With this realization he desires two things. One, he wants to go back in life and unmake the decissions that led him to being disconnected with his dreams. And secondly, he wants to explain to other people (his child) that there is no boint in living because any hopes you will ever have will fade away or be destroyed. At the end of the song, he begins to cope. He decides that if he can't live any of his dreams in his life, his son can live them for him.

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