| Basement Jaxx – Where's Your Head At Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Someone's having a bad trip. They're saying the thing to do is realize it's all in your head, and you shouldn't hold so tightly onto your ego. 'Don't let the walls cave in on you / we can go on without you,' to my mind, means you have to realize that what to you may be a terrifying experience, something that makes you cry out for help, is actually more under your control than you may think. 'You don't make it easy on yourself' is part of the same theme: just let go. And as for 'What you give is what you get,' the same logic applies: the experience you have depends on how you look at it; if you look at the experience through a lens of anxiety and self-concern, worry about losing your ego, then that's exactly what you'll be burdened with. So, check your head. Where's it at? Keep it together. | |
| Eyedea – Exhausted Love Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It doesn't have to do with inflammation - it's about calming his body in order to accommodate the lazy uninspired world around him. He's the frustrated intellectual/artist who's living in an apathetic noncreative society that doesn't care if people devote their lives to something higher, like art; in that way he'll never be understood, since no one cares to listen. That's what the "Sounds of Nature Volume 1 in my headphones" has to do with - he's dumbing himself down as a consequence of his "overdose of passion." That "overdose," of course, is mean sarcastically. (By the way, just a general comment unrelated to your post: that ridiculous "got the sounds of nature for you born in my headphones" as written above - I mean, really, that doesn't make any sense. It's obviously "Volume 1," not "for you born in"). "Agent" doesn't have anything to do with a pharmacological agent... It's a lot deeper than that. He's talking about agency, individuality, freedom. The world wants him to go along with his mortality, which he rejects in favor of his freedom to struggle. "Just as long as playing agent doesn't disrupt my funeral's progress" is meaningful on several levels. Society undermines and devalues agency to the point where they say he's just "playing" agent, as if there's no such thing in reality as agency and claiming agency for oneself is something trivial that a child would do. He believes he should not have to let his fate/mortality get in the way of his agency, but society will only accept him as an artist "just so long as [his artistic pursuit] doesn't disrupt [his] funeral's progress." |
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