| Modest Mouse – The Whale Song Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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To me this song is about a person who is always searching for answers to reality and truth. A philosophizer of sorts. Disregarding what is considered to be "acceptable" or "status quo." He/She feels responsible about helping others (and himself) who want to find happiness outside of society, the rat race, what we are told to think and do with our lives. However, the entire system/structure of things is so overbearing, asphyxiating and dominating that there it's almost/completely impossible to get fully away from it. TV, politics, having to be a slave to a job you don't care about just to survive, status climbing, rat racing(etc.), there's no real meaningfulness to a lot of modern day society yet he doesn't know how to actually escape it and lead everyone else who wants or would want nothing to do with it out of it. That was just always my personal interpretation of the song |
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| Modest Mouse – The Whale Song Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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To me this song is about a person who is always searching for answers to reality and truth. A philosophizer of sorts. Disregarding what is considered to be "acceptable" or "status quo." He/She feels responsible about helping others (and himself) who want to find happiness outside of society, the rat race, what we are told to think and do with our lives. However, the entire system/structure of things is so overbearing, asphyxiating and dominating that there it's almost/completely impossible to get fully away from it. TV, politics, having to be a slave to a job you don't care about just to survive, status climbing, rat racing(etc.), there's no real meaningfulness to a lot of modern day society yet he doesn't know how to actually escape it and lead everyone else who wants or would want nothing to do with it out of it. That was just always my personal interpretation of the song |
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| Modest Mouse – Fly Trapped in a Jar Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| I used to listen to this song a lot when I was in my later teenage years. It was my favorite song on the album. I would say a part of music's artistic value is the ability to interpret its imagery, poetry and emotional tones to your own life and subjective experience, right? The "one wing wasn't even enough to leave" line always resonated with me so heavily as that's how I had been feeling for years on end in a symbolic sense. I was sick of my verbally and emotionally abusive parents who constantly scapegoated me and the shitty small town I lived in that had terrible and toxic social dynamics. I was heavily bullied by schoolmates and by people I once called my friend. I did nothing to these people. I felt like my will to leave was just one wing, but it wasn't enough. My mother made it impossible for me to leave, I couldn't get a job, let alone a car, she was ruining my efforts of trying to succeed at community college.. and on and on.. I guess I'm saying the other wing to me was the practical side of getting free.. money, possessions, etc. I did not have that other wing to escape the jar, a.k.a. the present situation I was in. | |
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