| The Rentals – Brilliant Boy Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| I think this song is about being young and trying to convince yourself that the things you love are somewhat mediocre. The character is conflicted between his small town life (which is attached to his youth) and doing something seemingly significant with himself (or growing up). ... Yeah. Picture this, you live in a sheltered suburban area and you surround yourself with images of bigger and better things. This cases you to sort of loathe the isolation as you grow older. In the meantime you make a strong connection with a girl. Best friends, lover? You decide. Every time you start to leave you see her pretty face and it totally makes your mind skip and freeze. In order to try and escape your home, you force yourself to believe that all the things you grew up to believe were trivial, your girl was trivial. It's a battle of human desires and annoyances, old faces verses new places. | |
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