| Bad Suns – 20 Years Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I think this song represents how people start looking back at the fun experiences they should do or have missed out on rather than how they've helped the world. The first verse is showing how people just start giving up trying to do things for the world when they reach a certain age. They start making no sense to other people, but it's sense to themselves. And instead of trying to do productive things, they just want to enjoy life by doing the nonsensical pleasures it offers. "focus is a virtue, you know what you're allured to" goes along with this by saying that focus is something good that people like, but the things you want to do which might not be considered as good are the real things you focus on because they directly give you enjoyment and not everyone else. "every day is progress, every day feels just the same" is representative of the fact that for most of your life you are working, making what society calls progress, but to you it's just the same mindless process over and over, wake up, eat, go to work, do work, get paid, go to sleep, repeat. The 3rd verse is saying that in all the chaos of the world, the person is realizing that 20 years have passed even though it felt the same for all the time and was hard to differentiate the passage of time from nothing happening at all. The 4th verse shows how after a certain amount of time, people start losing enjoyment out of the normal and recurring "special" occasions in life. Realizing their lifetime is passing by without them doing anything fun, so usually they take up gambling, as in order to escape the mundane task of working, they need cash. the dreaming that is referred to is the observation that success and escaping the boredom of life is in reality not possible to obtain and only a dream that people wish they could have without it quickly turning into a nightmare of truths. "smiling at her fear" is saying that after these realizations, people start to enjoy fear as it gives them a quick rush of excitement compared to the boring world. "Nothing really matters, these eyes have so much to see" is the person noticing how short life is and wanting to do something risky but fun because they've finally understood that what they accomplish by the end of their life won't help them anymore and doing it probably took way too much effort and exhaustion compared to the fun they could be having with their short lived life. "the home i know, how do i get there" is mentioning that once people get old enough they have enough memories of the pleasures they had in their early days, when everything was new and exciting, and not tainted by the world going through it's downward spiral all the time, they just want to go back and not suffer the state of the mundane, normal, corrupt world they understand as an adult which they didn't understand as kids when they could have fun all the time because they weren't worried about everything 24/7. the repeating verses are there to put emphasis on the fact that the longer life goes on the more the person is wondering what they've done with their life (hence "how did i get here") The final 3 lines are the person in their final stretch before death making a promise to themselves that in 20 years, or, for short, when they die, they'll be back in a state of happiness because the life of mundane repetitive tasks they had to do are no longer on their plate and they can finally relax in a constant state of non stress and non boredom. |
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