| Gnarls Barkley – Feng Shui Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| k0s don't you feel that there is an undertone of unbalance in the song. He may be talking about the aesthetics to build a good life, as you say, but that in and of itself is extreme. The idea of every little detail of your existence needing to fit a perfected ideal doesn't seem healthy. To rigidly pick your cloths/interior decor/friends etc, to match guidelines then you need to loosen up. To be that obsessed with detail leans strongly toward OCD. Whether the whole cd is of mental illness is irrelevant, the lyrics to this song depict an individual that is seriously tightly wound. | |
| Gnarls Barkley – Feng Shui Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Saltpeter Taff, I take my hat off to you. That is a very astute analysis of the song. I hadn't come to the conclusion of what the song meant. When I read yours, your ideas seemed solid and true. I feel like writing anything extra to that explanation would be gilding the lily. | |
| Gnarls Barkley – The Boogie Monster Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Yeah guys, this song is totally about masturbation. Two of the Penis's nicknames are "the one eyed monster” or "the Boogie Monster". The guy is being kept up at night by his inability to get off. "Id kill it but it’s already dead." His sexual frustration peeks at night, as he can't get to sleep with out release. But clearly something psychologically is preventing an erection. Obviously something he feels guilty about. "The wrong I did" "It sits there and stares at me” It doesn't take much imagination to see the guy in bed staring at his limp penis as the penis stares back unmoving. The monster is him. He is the only one causing the problem here but he doesn't seem to know how to deal with it, so it tortures him every night. The last line he is longing for his woman to give him excellent head as that is the only thing that will fix his streak of flaccid nights. |
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| Gnarls Barkley – Who Cares? Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Basically I see this song as a man laying on the therapists couch talking about his problems. The complications of the human mind and its dissections. "Basically I’m complicated, I have a hard time taking the easy way" Anyone in a state of self analysis constantly is faced by ones own emotional and intellectual quarks. Any human will find it difficult to unravel themselves "I wouldn't call it schizophrenia, But I'll be at least two people today, If that’s ok" While acting differently to different people he can completely open up to the therapist and show all the faces he puts on, with out worry of his therapist's judgment. "And I can go on and on and on...but who cares? This attitude being caused by the mans boredom with his own cyclical thought patterns. The tedium of self-analysis that goes on infinitum. Also possible frustration with therapy and its constant discovery of never ending problems to work on. The "who cares"- referring to the outside world, or larger picture of "real" problems. That self-analysis CAN be considered self-indulgent and does nothing for the good of the world but caters to the individual’s personal needs. "Its deep how you can be so Shallow, And I'm afraid because I have no fear, And I didn't believe in magic, Until I watched you disappear, I wish you were here" This is the man talking about his romantic relationship problems. His woman has left him. And he shows his range of emotions by expressing bitterness and calling her shallow. Then possibly putting up a front and explaining his worry that he doesn't feel more afraid at her leaving. Then opening up to his most guarded feeling of pain, loneliness and regret. "You see, everyone is somebody, but nobody wants to be themselves, and If I ever wanted to understand me, I'll have to talk to someone else, Cause every little bit helps". Everyone has problems, and everyone imagines that if they weren't themselves but instead someone "more together" then life would be better. But the man recognizes that those thoughts don't work with reality. That if he really wants to solve the problems in his life he needs to work through them with the help of his therapist. Someone who can see him objectively. "Feels like...the surreal life, But it's still nice, Wish I could live twice, But I still might, If these bones heal right, I see a little light, Though its still night" In discovering revelations in ones self, reality can shift and a feeling of surrealism comes over the individual. It is a freeing sort of feeling, pleasing in its opening up of new realms of possibilities. But you will never be done with self-discoveries and you, in one lifetime, will never reveal them all. But like any individual in therapy or self-help, realizes that isn't the point. The point being that you fix what you can and each bit helps create a better life for you to exist in. With the continuing of setting your emotional fractures you will eventually reach a happier state of mind. A "light" to work towards while still existing in the darkness of issues still to be sorted through. This line is then repeated as an individual constantly rediscovering this in the process of therapy. Just my thoughts on the song. Cee-lo seems like an evolving guy, and it’s not a stretch to consider he may be using therapy to reach these higher levels of consciousness. |
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