This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
She is susceptible
He is impossible
They have their cross to share
Three of a perfect pair
He has his contradicting views
She has her cyclothymic moods
They make a study in despair
Three of a perfect pair
One, one too many
Schizophrenic tendencies
Keeps it complicated (complicated)
Keeps it aggravated (aggravated)
And full of this hopelessness
Oh, what a perfect mess
He has his contradicting views
She has her cyclothymic moods
They make a study in despair
Three of a perfect pair
One, one too many
Schizophrenic tendencies
Keeps it complicated (complicated)
Keeps it aggravated (aggravated)
And full of this hopelessness
Oh, what a perfect mess
One, one too many
Schizophrenic tendencies
Keeps it complicated (complicated)
Keeps it aggravated (aggravated)
And full of this hopelessness
Oh, what a perfect mess
One, one too many
Schizophrenic tendencies
Keeps it complicated (complicated)
Keeps it so aggravated (aggravated)
And full of this hopelessness
Oh, what a perfect mess
He is impossible
They have their cross to share
Three of a perfect pair
He has his contradicting views
She has her cyclothymic moods
They make a study in despair
Three of a perfect pair
One, one too many
Schizophrenic tendencies
Keeps it complicated (complicated)
Keeps it aggravated (aggravated)
And full of this hopelessness
Oh, what a perfect mess
He has his contradicting views
She has her cyclothymic moods
They make a study in despair
Three of a perfect pair
One, one too many
Schizophrenic tendencies
Keeps it complicated (complicated)
Keeps it aggravated (aggravated)
And full of this hopelessness
Oh, what a perfect mess
One, one too many
Schizophrenic tendencies
Keeps it complicated (complicated)
Keeps it aggravated (aggravated)
And full of this hopelessness
Oh, what a perfect mess
One, one too many
Schizophrenic tendencies
Keeps it complicated (complicated)
Keeps it so aggravated (aggravated)
And full of this hopelessness
Oh, what a perfect mess
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I had to log in just to tell you that what you wrote here was really beautiful.
I found this reply I wrote to your comment in 2014 that I never sent: Well thank you, it’s not often I get complements for words I rarely share with others. I would be hard pressed to say what prompted me to create that login just to write that interpretation. Perhaps to help those more junior thoughts and beliefs to see the existentialist despair being captured in so few words wrapped in the tension of the syncopated guitar melodies to make it all the more enlightening.
If it’s true what wikipedia says about the link to 1984 and Orwell’s 1984, that would be when I was a Junior in college listening to that album the year it was released. It’s funny looking back and realizing how is it I could see through the politically fabricated Orwellian divide Ronald Raygun was creating with his star wars fantasy. It’s not like I was tuned in to politics or world events by reading the NY Times or something like that. I was at a mostly conservative upstate college close to the Canadian border trying to find my way through life with the future ahead of me. With a major in physics and a heavy dose of visual arts. I was thinking I will need an engineering degree from the neighboring college to secure a good job, and I’d like to lose my virginity with a girlfriend I didn’t have.
To now where I uncovered the meaning with a similar link to the Orwellian nightmare that came out of my divorce in 2008. That is with the help of the states abusive power that denied me of all my property and rights for wanting to peacefully leave a relationship with the sociopathic tendencies that kept it complicated and aggravated to divert attention from where all the hopelessness was coming from. Maybe I understood those tendencies way back then without the ability to put in words what was being articulated in the songs I was listening to. That is, without the internet to know all the lyrics to the songs and the hundreds of reviews to say who did what for reasons we can’t know until we know and experience it for ourselves. To tune in with the sounds of the bass, drums, and guitars coming together to point the way.