More Than You Are

this is the best grinspoon song!

yeah this song's (sic) i luuuurv it

This was better performed live... his screams were more grungy =) Awesome song tho....

Oh i heard this song live the other night. Woah it was... i cant find a word to add up to it

Best song from Grinners.

no doubt the best grinspoon song ever, or maybe no reason both awesome,i like the live version better too, good on you grinners!!!

sounds like it might be about people putting lots of pressure on him early in life, expecting him to do big things, but he feels like it was all a bit too much and he failed in someway.

that, or a song to all those people in the world who had dreams of making it big as a rock star, and never had the chance.

This song always seemed to me to be Phil saying "did you wanna be a rockstar ? think you had potential when you were young? Well I did, and now I am a rockstar, and I'm better than you". Exemplified by the main bit:

I'm more than you are More than you are More than you are now

However that "now" at the end would be Phil's admission that he lifted himself up, and you can do the same, so make something of your life and achieve your dreams.

However, given that it first appeared on the Green EP in 1995 (which is the best version), and no one really knew who Grinspoon was at that point, I could be wrong, as Phil proclaiming he was a rockstar at that point and that he's better than everyone would have been a little presumptious..

Always has struck me as weird when people sing this song back to Phil at concerts.. because it seems to be Phil saying "I rule and you currently suck", for the reasons above.