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Wizard Needs Food, Badly Lyrics
I know that you're probably mad at me. I've come to expect that. You know that you'll never have all of me, you've come to resent that. You say "tomato", I say "video games", you're acting so solemn. You'll take the precious remote control from me. Do I sound like Gollum? (It's) not that I'm escaping, you charm me like the flame does moths, it's just that you'd prefer me docile, like a narcoleptic sloth.
The wizard needs food badly, the Voltron can't be incomplete. The things I love, you hate so madly, I must not go down in defeat.
In the hunter-gatherer societies, I'd bring home the bacon. Public thought says men should try and be tame, stirred but not shaken. I say "baseball" then you start to cry, I'm sorry I grieve you. I think a motorcycle's a good way to die, this must bereave you. I know that you try so hard, and I'm not saying it's a sin, it's just that they don't feel my pain, in Vogue or Cosmopolitan.
And I'm sure you have your reasons, but listen to me please... I want the G.I. Joe with the Kung-Fu action grip. I want Nintendo with the extra-graphics-microchip. Tackle football with rocks, and sticks, and knives, and pain... I want a truck with the four wheel drive train. You'd rather see me get good at bookkeepping, I could clean house in the time that I'm not sleeping. I live to serve you, and I don't want to be rude, but you should see that the wizard needs food.
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This song cracks me up. It's all about guys wanting to play with toys. But their wives obviously want them to do stuff around the house or be usuful. Altogether, The End is Near is a great album!
I love this song (and The End Is Near as a whole) too! It just never gets old, just liek Gauntlet...
If you don't understand the name of the song, just type in "Wizard needs food badly" in the Google engine... It has to do with an old video game... I think it was Gauntlet, like ShesMyAlcatraz said. Pretty funny song... One of my faves on the album!
Wow. This song is freakin halarious and pretty true. They are very creative. Somebody who can't see the meaning in this song is a retard. or they are blind.
More serious than it first sounds. It reminds me of a John Eldredge book. It is about how women domesticate men. Its not really about toys, rather about masculinity
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YES! This is easily the best explanation so far. It is a lighthearted delivery of a slightly more serious topic. Thus song wrestles with what it means to be a man and how the definition of such typically varies between women and men.
YES! This is easily the best explanation so far. It is a lighthearted delivery of a slightly more serious topic. Thus song wrestles with what it means to be a man and how the definition of such typically varies between women and men.
"They don't feel my pain in vogue or cosmopolitan," is saying, "They don't hold the definition of what a man is, and I should have a say." The whole song is the struggle between wanting to please your significant other while still allowing yourself to use your free time in ways that you truly enjoy, regardless...
"They don't feel my pain in vogue or cosmopolitan," is saying, "They don't hold the definition of what a man is, and I should have a say." The whole song is the struggle between wanting to please your significant other while still allowing yourself to use your free time in ways that you truly enjoy, regardless of public opinion.
I think its about how life is in some places for people. Someone needs food to survive, but people are ignorant and want to do other things like play nintendo, so in the end the wizard is about to die because he gets no food. I can say its a lighthearted look at something pulled from the bible.
I was so excited when I saw the song name. I used to play Gauntlet with my brother and dad. Such a good game. And in the song when he says "but you should see that the wizard needs food!!!" its the funniest thing in the world.