I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Jackie, you yourself said it best when you said
There's been a break in the continuum
The United States used to be lots of fun
Back when the man and the myth
Of the sands and the cliffs
Composed a symphony to good works and better business
Jackie, you yourself said it best when you said
One day we'll look upon a washed up Atlantic
Get our kicks on an ocean of antics
And making history has never been so easy
So visualize success but don't believe your eyes
There's a world of wisdom and pain to despise
And when people get paid just to set you straight it means . . .
. . . are you going to start the sunshine?
(Who is going to stop the sunshine?)
And you're going to start the sunshine
(Who is going to stop the sunshine?)
Visualize success
Visualize success
Visualize success but don't believe your eyes
What is a version of the world without the will to despise it?
And when people get paid just to set you straight it means . . .
Jackie
(Hey, hey)
Jackie
(Hey, hey)
There's been a break in the continuum
The United States used to be lots of fun
Back when the man and the myth
Of the sands and the cliffs
Composed a symphony to good works and better business
Jackie, you yourself said it best when you said
One day we'll look upon a washed up Atlantic
Get our kicks on an ocean of antics
And making history has never been so easy
So visualize success but don't believe your eyes
There's a world of wisdom and pain to despise
And when people get paid just to set you straight it means . . .
. . . are you going to start the sunshine?
(Who is going to stop the sunshine?)
And you're going to start the sunshine
(Who is going to stop the sunshine?)
Visualize success
Visualize success
Visualize success but don't believe your eyes
What is a version of the world without the will to despise it?
And when people get paid just to set you straight it means . . .
Jackie
(Hey, hey)
Jackie
(Hey, hey)
Lyrics submitted by Unarmed
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Iraq war.
Cable propaganda.
Dude, this song was written from 1997-2000. Check the album release date people (originally released 2000).
I think this song is about the U.S. from the time of FDR to Clinton. The good works is a reference to FDR's plan to get the economy rolling after the depression. The not being able to criticize may be Clinton's ability to get away with the Lewinski scandal. People didn't really care as much as they should have about that since Clinton did get the job done and moved the economy forward.
um, no, its about me.
I think this song is about modern politics, period. New Pornos can see the future becuase this song is more truthful now than it was when they wrote it. They're basically talking to Jackie, wishing things could be the way they used to. I don't think it has anything to do with Clinton. "Visualize success but don't believe your eyes." Cable news propaganda and political bickering at the time of the primaries and everything else.
I think the choice of the name "Jackie" is excellent. It brings to mind the Kennedys and the idea of the utopian an vibrant United States that might of been, but probably wouldn't have.
Contrast this with the "ocean antics" and dispicable "wisdom and pain" in modern polictics, and I believe this is what makes the song so effective.
my name is jackie, and that just excites me. :) but yeah, i think this song is about politics, like everyone else.
Jackie Kennedy, anyone?
The song is definitely about her after JFK was killed.
...it's def. Jackie O