This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
Please, please, please
No more melodies
They lack impact, they're petty
They've been made up already
Please, please, please
No more maladies
I'm so tired of crying
You'd think I was a siren
But me and everybody's on the sad same team and
You can hear our sad brains screaming
Give us something familiar
Something similar
To what we know already
That will keep us steady, steady
Steady going nowhere
Please, please, please
No apologies
At best they buy you time
'Till you next step out of line
Please, please, please
No more remedies
My method is uncertain
It's a mess, but it's working
And maybe if you wanna try it out
You won't like it so when you're cried out
Give us something familiar
Something similar
To what we know already
That will keep us steady, steady, steady
Steady going nowhere
Please, please, please
No more melodies
They lack impact, they're petty
They've been made up already
Please, please, please
No more maladies
I'm so tired of crying
You'd think I was a siren
But me and everybody's on the sad same team and
You can hear our sad brain screaming
Give us something familiar
Something similar
To what we know already
That will keep us steady, steady, steady
Steady
Steady going nowhere
No more melodies
They lack impact, they're petty
They've been made up already
Please, please, please
No more maladies
I'm so tired of crying
You'd think I was a siren
But me and everybody's on the sad same team and
You can hear our sad brains screaming
Give us something familiar
Something similar
To what we know already
That will keep us steady, steady
Steady going nowhere
Please, please, please
No apologies
At best they buy you time
'Till you next step out of line
Please, please, please
No more remedies
My method is uncertain
It's a mess, but it's working
And maybe if you wanna try it out
You won't like it so when you're cried out
Give us something familiar
Something similar
To what we know already
That will keep us steady, steady, steady
Steady going nowhere
Please, please, please
No more melodies
They lack impact, they're petty
They've been made up already
Please, please, please
No more maladies
I'm so tired of crying
You'd think I was a siren
But me and everybody's on the sad same team and
You can hear our sad brain screaming
Give us something familiar
Something similar
To what we know already
That will keep us steady, steady, steady
Steady
Steady going nowhere
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Great version of a great song,
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Everyone's got the gist - stab at the music industry but also the consumers.
First verse - she's fed up with the same old crap they're churning out. It's probably not at all what Fiona had in mind, but I love how she says "Please please please, no more maladies" - which are diseases or disorders - "I'm so tired of crying; you'd think I was a siren" and then I just imagine the siren of an ambulance in reference to the disease or health problem which requires the ambulance. But she describes it (the problem) as if it were a drug that your hooked on. "Me and everybody's on the sad same team" - she is just as or has been as immersed in it as we the audience are.
On the contrary to xocouturecouture, I think the chorus is about the audience, not the industry. The chorus continues from the verse: "Me and everybody's on the sad same team and you can hear our sad brains screaming give us something familiar..." The mainstream industry is so rubbish yet infectious in the sense that people are fine with heartless music they're being sold because it's "familiar" and will keep them "steady going nowhere". Ignorance is bliss.
Second verse - "Please please please, no apologies. At best they buy you time until you next step out of line" sounds like something the label would say. And then Fiona replies "Please please please no more remedies. My method is uncertain, it's a mess but it's working." To me, she's saying that she's sick of them trying to cure or tame her with their "remedies" and that what she's doing is fine thanks very much. But "And maybe if you wanna try it out, you won't like it when you're crying out..." sounds as though she's saying that the audience can't handle real music because in the end they still go asking for what's "familiar".