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| Incubus – Nice To Know You Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I agree that this song has to do with getting high, but it's more of an exit to it. A lot of people start to distance themselves from popular culture by smoking weed, but there are also a lot of people who never really grow out of getting stoned all the time. In my opinion, the verses are about living a life where the only things you need to feel good are imagination, perspective, and the occasional ride in a plane to fuel the two. I think the chorus is about smoking weed once you're used to the things in the verses.
I had never really thought that much into this song until this weekend, when I partied with a bunch of old friends I hadn't seen in a while and was really drunk/stoned and on the verge of passing out. I realized that the feeling of being stoned is one hell of a lot like a waking limb, then I thought about whether or not I would see most of them ever again in another few years. Pins and needles, nice to know you. It's as easy as that. This song is about growing up and doing your own thing. |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Daydreamin' Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think people are looking into the meaning of the first verse, but most are actually looking past it. The robot Lupe is talking about is just his body. I mean, read it. Without our minds, what are our bodies except large, infinitely complex biological robots? He is separating the meaning of "I" and "my" from just his body. If you've ever tripped on anything, you'll understand. Then he starts to get a little more metaphorical when he talks about different groups such as whores, crackheads, cops, and gangsters being stationed at different levels of his body; basically it's just a fancy way of saying that he considers himself to be above all that, just sitting in his room thinking of a way to portray all of it in a song.
The second verse is self-explanatory, but I love his transition from hip-hop video shoot to sleeping baby. It's just like, how the hell did we go from this to all this bullshit? |
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| Bob Dylan – Desolation Row Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I want to drop acid with a bunch of people and just spend the entire time listening to this song on repeat, trying to figure out what it really means. |
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| Aesop Rock – The Greatest Pac-Man Victory In History Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This is the song you play for the random kid that wanted to trip with you and your friends because he thought lsd would be "all trippy" and make him see colors like he heard on TV to show him what acid is actually about. Been there, done that. |
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| MGMT – Kids Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song isn't about the environment or a message for how to behave in life. It's an attack on people who aren't popular and don't have friends, letting kids let them know they are outcasts by playing it in social situations where they want to make the suggestion. "Control yourself. Take only what you need from it" is an ironic play on how some people have the outlook of not wanting to do anything or feeling incapable of doing anything in life. The "family of trees" reference is describing the situation created by the friendless kid traveling into the woods and feeling better in solitude than around other people, followed by the singer's point that the kid probably wishes he was in a haunted-type place to give it some kind of significance.
So no, this song isn't really a political statement or any kind of statement whatsoever other than an emo version of a diss song. |
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