| Cake – Frank Sinatra Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I like your interpretation more than anything else I've seen thus far. Cake is definitely a band that considers itself artistic (if not snooty about it), and which goes out of its way to occasionally throw their fans a deeper puzzle. They are also sometimes willing to be goofy and fun, which just shows that they want to be HUMAN and express all of the emotions we experience, instead of just writing music that "people want to listen to". Anyone can sing about sex. Anyone can sing about how dope they are, or how depressed they are, or what they really want to be. This *could* easily be a song about an old person, or looming insanity, or a thousand other things. But I think this song is philosophical; the societal values of 50 years ago are as far away to most people as the constellations... yet someday, there is hope that these things will come back, and that our nostalgic memories (like Sinatra's charm, charisma, and manners, as opposed to his achy-breaky penis, his overinflated ego, or his disturbed emo-ness) will reappear as IMPORTANT parts of human relations. |
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