| The Shins – Phantom Limb Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is very nonstalgic... It's almost as if he is critisizing the educational system for encouraging a standardized approach to learning as opposed to a more individual method. He kind of describes as going through motions during school, alwasy considered insobordinate to the system (phantom and a fly). After "A week of rolling eyes"(week day) they are off to a friends house listening to music and drinking. During his youth his community all "feels fine be it silk or slime" implying now that he looks back it seems foreign and superficial. It's like after he left (tap their sunday heads...) he finally woke up from this trance and his "town seems hardly worth the time", once they get out they will not have to subject to the standarziation in order to get ahead. |
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