| Bright Eyes – Happy Accident Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Except that the line about 'I heard you scream in your mother's voice' is NOT about wanting to be her mother, it's about NOT wanting to be like her- 'So afraid you'd become her in the end'. The fact that she's 'screaming in (her) mother's voice' is saying that she's already becoming her mother. | |
| Bright Eyes – Happy Accident Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| ChemicalZen has it the closest of anybody here, but it's just worded a little awkwardly. It's a song about somebody who's placed value on material possessions, and Conor is imploring them to show him their happiness, because he doesn't see it. | |
| Bright Eyes – Happy Accident Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Okay... I'm sorry, but this is completely inaccurate, and everybody is quoting this all wrong. First of all, he says right in the song, 'Not yet a mother but a good complex', referring to an Oedipus Complex. Oedipus accidentally killed his own father and married his mother. He's saying she only likes innocent boys, not grown, mature men. The song is not about a young mother. It's about a girl who has a shallow, materialistic life and the narrator (Conor) is asking her to show him her happiness, implying that he doesn't think she's happy at all, but is just compensating for it with material possessions- 'throw another shower for a friend'. The part that says, 'I heard you scream in your mother's voice/So afraid you'd become her in the end' is NOT about wanting to be like her mother, it's exactly the opposite- She IS becoming her mother and that's what she's most afraid of. I'm not trying to be a dick here, but I love this song, and even though I don't know Conor Oberst's exact meaning behind it, I do know English, and this song is just not about a mother. It says so right in the song. |
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