| Modest Mouse – Custom Concern Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I have some ideas about what it means - but they don't matter as much as the feeling I get when I'm screaming "GOTTA GO TO WORK, GOTTA GO TO WORK, Gotta have a job!" at the top of my lungs, out my car windows, on my way to work... and in a way that feeling *is* what I think the song means. | |
| Built to Spill – Distopian Dream Girl Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Well, I'd hate to break tradition and actually talk about the song meaning, but... i am captivated by the chorus: "Without me there's nothing / I'm the only thing that dies / If it came down to your life or mine / I would do the stupid thing / And let you keep on living". How many ideas does this point to? I see it as something like this: Being trapped in our own subjective world, we become the most important thing in the world (this is solipsism) - because everything else is real only to the extent that you are. As far as *you* are concerned, reality ends when you die. So given the choice between saving your own life, or sacrificing yourself for someone else, it would seem obvious that you should save yourself. Yet, loving someone intensely can make you care about them even more than yourself - breaking the solipsistic spell and making you willing to do the stupid thing and let them keep on living - even if it means ending your world. eh? |
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