| fun. – Out on the Town Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think it's only a "bonus track" in the sense that it doesn't necessarily mesh thematically with the other songs on the album. | |
| fun. – Out on the Town Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think it's only a "bonus track" in the sense that it doesn't necessarily mesh thematically with the other songs on the album. | |
| fun. – Benson Hedges Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song is about regret and insecurity, and coming to realize that your failures and mistakes don't matter in the long run. The speaker starts by expressing his uncertainty with what he should do, and his feelings that he isn't understood or represented ("I've come to find that I can't be defined"). He's not sure what the world is trying to tell him ("Now at least the birds are singing to me / But what they're trying to say, I don't know" and "Now I believe the sun is like a symphony / But what it's trying to play, I don't know"). Throughout, his own uncertainty is overpowering the voice of those who care about him ("You're beautiful for all your big mistakes" in the background of "I think it's come from the cold") trying to tell him that it all doesn't matter. Ultimately, just after he's given up ("We all float before we sink" ; "I don't care to be forgiven, I want to be forgotten"), he "receives a call from [his] family / and what they started to say brought [him] home", and he finally realizes that "They think [he's] beautiful for all [his] big mistakes." |
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