| Passenger – Fairytales & Firesides Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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See now, i interpreted it as something different. The way that Mike uses "we" it makes it seem as though he is addressing just people in general. He then goes on to put us all inscenarios we have felt before as a way to amplify a certain feeiling. Example:"We are bitter losers snarling through our smiles" shows that we may seem calm on the outside but inside we are wishing we had it better. "We're the lost boys in the supermarket aisles" we are all confused and sometimes feel lost as a child would alone looking for their mother. Last example of these eotions that we are "We're fucked but we say we're fine" we all have problems but we know that we will eventually handle it. After all these comparisons, Mike puts us into this mode of desire "We long for journeys and the roadside We long for starlight and the low tide Yeah, we long for fairy tales and firesides" We all want something really badly. we want to explore, we want to see things unseen, go places unknown and then share these experiences with others. We want to do so much. We want a perfect "fairytale" to live in, but we live in teh real world and we can dream, but it is very unlikely that we will get the thing that we want. So we just accept it and live our lives that are full of confusion, rage, abandonment, fear, and all theses things may sound like a horrible way to live. One would say someone that live in this set of emotions is "fucked". But we all know that they will say that they are fine and carry on their life dreaming of their desire. |
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| Modest Mouse – The Good Times Are Killing Me Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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So, i just submitted this for an english assignment and i apologize if it is kinda lengthy. As for my analysis, I am going to look at the song “The Good Times Are Killing Me” by Modest Mouse. The song begins and in the background you here “Da Da Da Da Da. Is there an ash tray in here or what? Can we smoke in here?” From this the listener can assume there is a smoker and the general view that the public has about smokers is that they are addicted to smoking and are doing something that is killing them, but when you ask a smoker why they smoke they will usually say they started young because it was a sort of excitement that comes with doing something that they were told not to do for so long, so in a way it is “fun”. After this little introduction that is not listed in the lyrics, we have this image of a person addicted to smoking and the song begins “The good times are killing me, here we go. Got dirt, got air, got water and I know you can carry on, Shrug off shortsighted false excitement And oh what can I say? Have one, have twenty more ‘One mores’ and oh it does not relent The good times are killing me” The singer, Isaac Brock, begins the song saying that he has dirt, he has water, and he has air and he knows he can carry on. From what I can get out of this I believe he is saying he has all the thing he needs in life and he that he is able to live a good life, but then he goes on to talk about his “shortsighted false excitements” and how the good times are killing him. With all of these in mind, one can assume that the singer is talking about the use of drugs. The way that it is sung, it sounds as if Isaac Brock is reminiscing about his past experience with drugs because of the when he is talking about the false excitements he says that he is just shrugging them off as no big deal and he then says “Oh what can I say?”. The use of “I” here tells the listener that he is talking about himself. The next line almost makes it sound that he is having a realization. “Have one, have twenty more ‘One mores’ and oh it does not relent”. It begins as if he is going to say “oh ill just do it one more time, but he stops and say have twenty more “one mores” which implies that he has said the “ill do it once more” many times before. This is confirmed by the quote “oh it does not relent” which means he cant stop saying one more time. This is then followed by the realization that “The good times are killing me.” Isaac knows that the things that he is doing isn’t necessarily good for him, but they are marked off as good times because it gives him his “short sighted false excitement”. Later in the song, it seems as though he touches a bit on some of his personal experiences under the influence. “Jaws clenching tight we talked all night, oh but what the hell did we say? The good times are killing me” by saying that “we talked all night” almost seems as a way for him to say oh it must have been a wonderful time, we were talking the entire night, but then he says “oh what the hell did we say? The good times are killing me” this is another realization that he has that the things he is doing isn’t good for him. By putting “The good times are killing me” after remembering a certain time on drugs, it lets the listener know that the singer knows that the good times, being under the influence, are killing him, are not healthy. “Fed up with all that LSD, Need more sleep than Coke or Methamphetamines, Late nights with warm, warm whiskey I guess the good times they were all just killing me” Finally, here is the actual admittance that Issac Brock was kind of alluding to in his song. He flat out say that the good times were just killing him. In addition, Issac puts an interesting spin on the the second part, “need more sleep than Coke or Methamphetamines”. From what I can get at it, he is saying that he is really tired from doing all of these drugs, and he needs sleep. What is interesting here though, is that he is quantifying sleep with these specific drugs which are considered uppers, as in they are designed to give you lots of energy and make you very alert. But be saying he needs more sleep than these things is he is saying that he needs real sleep not this artificial sleep that can just make him feel awake. Finally, there is an allusion to addiction. “Get sucked in and stuck in late nights with more folks that I don't know” followed by a bunch of “The good times are killing me”’s He says that he is getting sucked in, which is generally accepted in society as becoming addicted to drugs. He also says that he is stuck in late nights with people he doesn’t know. He doesn’t know the people he is with, but rather that they have drugs and that is what he wants. Since it is followed by a bunch if “The good times are killing me”’s, you can assume that he is aware of the things he is doing wrong and that is all that we are left with. (also, there may be some spelling errors my teacher isnt picky on that he just wants the ideas) |
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