Lazy

I think this song is a reflection on the modern world where some people choose to do nothing with their lives and find it easier to just live off the work of others and the comparatively comfortable life that society allows even those who do nothing to help themselves to have.

It is a reflection both of the fundamental selfishness of these people, but also of the tragedy of them. How they would love to live life, to have money, a girlfriend and a job and all those other things, but are trapped in a cycle of laziness and dependency.

I think this song is just a plain-and-simple comical observation of a fictional character. I think the appeal of the song, to the band and to the audience, is its honesty and its mundaneness. Truly a brilliant, brilliant song.

I think the singer is meant to be the opposite of lazy.

In the first verse he claims he's lazy while he speaks, walks, dances, talks... a lot of things going on, for a lazy man. He's working very hard, in fact, to put up the impression of being uncaringly, untouchably cool:

<i>No tears are falling from my eyes I'm keepin' all the pain inside</i>

That doesn't sound easy to do. Why is he doing it?

<i>Now don't you want to live with me? I'm lazy as a man can be </i>

<i>Oh.</i> He can't be seen to put forth this much effort to appear effortless; it would ruin his image as being carefree and attractive. It's "hard keeping it all inside," so much so that he'd "almost stop."

He's closer to the people who clean the street than the ones with money and decisions, but he can't appear to envy them or the ignominy of his position catches up with him. The music underscores this; a fast, hard-driving rhythm for the continual assurances that he's very, very lazy. Really. Just listen to him. So lazy.