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| Weezer – Undone - The Sweater Song Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The sweater could easily be a metaphor for individuality and life. "Watch me unravel and i'll soon be naked/lying on the floor, i've come undone" would be his individuality, or himself as a person being destroyed and becoming like all other people, and feeling like life has slipped away. Thus, the incoherent verses "i'm me, me be" could be translated as I am who I am, so leave me be. Then "it gone, bye-bye, who I, I think, I sink, and I die" is thinking like the rest and bye-bye goes who you really are, and you die. To him, his individual self is projected through his singing, and he wants people to hear him.
Also, did anyone notice in the music video all of them are intentionally playing badly on their instruments? |
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| Jack Johnson – All At Once Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Much of this song is about feeling that each individual has no control, so what does it matter if an individual tries to do anything to help another. Jack feels that comfort is difficult to find in thinking about the world because of everything going on, between his obvious global warming reference, the difficulty of hope in the face of hardships (the weight of it all could blow away with the breeze), and each catastrophe that appears every day, it appears that singing from the heart does not make sense because too many people don't act from their hearts. The preconceived comment really interests me because to take the preconceived out from somebody's feet is to make them question the world, why people do as they do, whether their opinion is truly better than another person's, and what to believe. He connects believing to hope later when he states that "there's still hope between the dreams/ the weight of it all could blow away with the breeze/ if you're waiting on the wind" because waiting for the wind to ruin your hopes does not make sense until he says that we reach for love, which is the cure to dashed hopes and destroyed beliefs. In this song Jack believes that control in this world is impossible for the individual to maintain, but if everybody's preconceived notions about right and wrong, and the power of the individual changes, then some true changes may be made, but if these notions are kept, then the only thing left to reach to is love while the world collapses under the stresses and catastrophes presented by the environment and violence and the degradation of entire civilizations in other nations. |
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| Jack Johnson – It's All Understood Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This song is about simply relativity. Every person sees a conflict or situation in a different light, but no point of view can be any more wrong than another, just different. Thus, Jack believes that declaring anybody of having an incorrect opinion because it is different, or going to hell because they have a different religion, is being intolerant because you cannot see that their point of view is relative to where they were raised and the conditions they have been through. Any statement of never questioning anything, like "the good book is good, and that's well understood, so don't even question if you know what I mean is sarcasm. Jack believes that each person should believe in something, but be sure to believe in something you want to believe in, and don't harass others for thinking differently. His statement "it's all understood, even when you don't understand" is sarcasm as well as he says that understanding anything requires an understanding of any reason why anybody would see the understanding differently. The song is about how society has accepted intolerance as understood, but nobody understands why this intolerance is understood. |
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