| Relient K – Deathbed Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| That's exactly what i thought when i heard the toy piano. | |
| Ben Folds – Still Fighting It Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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To me, this song s sung from the POV of a dad that left his son when he was born. The line "I am a bird" refers to how he "flew the coop", and left him. I think the beginning part about wanting a coke or fries is the dad meeting up with his son at a restaurant to see him after all these years. The "wearing a brown polyester shirt" is him trying to get dressed up formally to meet his son. I think the chorus refers to how the dad felt coming back to his son, how it was "so weird" to be back in the town he settled down in. The "you're so much like me, i'm sorry" line is him realizing his son is as restless to leave the town as he was. The "good morning son, twenty years from now" is the dad talkig to his son when he was born, knowing he would leave, and predicting the restaurant scene in the beginning. The "it was pain, sunny days and rain" is him explaining why he left i.e the pain of being constricted in the small town, and the freedom(sunny days and rain) outside of that life. "I knew you'd feel the same things means the same thing as "you're so much like me". Then it has the chorus and pre-chorus a couple times, and that's it I think. This theory fits for me because it seems like the next song, "Gone", is the son singing about how he felt about his dad when he found out he left the son. |
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