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Exhausted Love Lyrics
I'm so goddamn tired, cant tell if I'm done, or just un-inspired
and don't give me that you can be somebody speech
that ain't your place, let me be
I'm an example of a candle lit life
with electric relaxation, brain trampled by devotion
to remote control channel changin
something provoked the whole globe to lower expectations
damn, what's wrong with my generation?
we was the cream of the crop but it seems we've been robbed
that's what happens when you trade in all your dreams for a job
and every day it gets less and less exciting
I would make a difference but I'm busy faking this instead of trying
change my shift from now to never and I'll pretend I'm fine
why am I stuck at the shitty end of the assembly line
I guess I'm built to be intoxicated with hope
sometimes it's a journey, most the time it's just a bad joke
and in my scroll there's a junk drawr I can't organize
the first to come in last to leave we'll never be immortalized
this sort of life is completely overrated, I'm sick of being the
only one I know that's trying to take it
so right now I'm heading home, got sounds of nature for you born in
my headphones and half a bottle of ???
that's the reaction to an overdose of passion
brainless, stagnant...aint it magic
[Verse 2]
I never knew ambition could be so fuckin disgusting
I earn a good comission but it makes me feel so ugly
I'm on some not even knowing I'm an illuminatis just as long
as playin aging doesn't disrupt my funerals progress
I ain't changin for you I'm not reaching for the sky, I would
if you could give me one good reason why I should even try
because after a while this never ending lame game of what's better
could fracture your smiles mainframe forever
it's so fun to be in love..or so I've heard
the meaning has no feeling even though I understand the word
I used to try to make heaven right here on earth but that'll only
happen if you find someone else to do the work
I'll be suprised when my psychosis turns out to keep the driving focus
while I hold the same blurred cloud as burnt out dope heads
so for now my worthless counterwork has found a purpose everytime a
pound of dirt produced I get my frown referbished
two for one specials, if you order show the devils, head swole
running out of petrol but I wont let go of this gas pedal
till I'm settled and they finally ?? me with that sweet blind security
so insecure and messy, mark today the day that dedication died
instead of saying goodbye, I'm staying praying that'll I'll stay alive
because even though I know I hate to love you so much
I got no better place to go, that's why I always show up
and don't give me that you can be somebody speech
that ain't your place, let me be
I'm an example of a candle lit life
with electric relaxation, brain trampled by devotion
to remote control channel changin
something provoked the whole globe to lower expectations
damn, what's wrong with my generation?
we was the cream of the crop but it seems we've been robbed
that's what happens when you trade in all your dreams for a job
and every day it gets less and less exciting
I would make a difference but I'm busy faking this instead of trying
change my shift from now to never and I'll pretend I'm fine
why am I stuck at the shitty end of the assembly line
I guess I'm built to be intoxicated with hope
sometimes it's a journey, most the time it's just a bad joke
and in my scroll there's a junk drawr I can't organize
the first to come in last to leave we'll never be immortalized
this sort of life is completely overrated, I'm sick of being the
only one I know that's trying to take it
so right now I'm heading home, got sounds of nature for you born in
my headphones and half a bottle of ???
that's the reaction to an overdose of passion
brainless, stagnant...aint it magic
I never knew ambition could be so fuckin disgusting
I'm on some not even knowing I'm an illuminatis just as long
as playin aging doesn't disrupt my funerals progress
I ain't changin for you I'm not reaching for the sky, I would
if you could give me one good reason why I should even try
because after a while this never ending lame game of what's better
could fracture your smiles mainframe forever
it's so fun to be in love..or so I've heard
the meaning has no feeling even though I understand the word
I used to try to make heaven right here on earth but that'll only
happen if you find someone else to do the work
I'll be suprised when my psychosis turns out to keep the driving focus
while I hold the same blurred cloud as burnt out dope heads
so for now my worthless counterwork has found a purpose everytime a
pound of dirt produced I get my frown referbished
two for one specials, if you order show the devils, head swole
running out of petrol but I wont let go of this gas pedal
till I'm settled and they finally ?? me with that sweet blind security
so insecure and messy, mark today the day that dedication died
instead of saying goodbye, I'm staying praying that'll I'll stay alive
because even though I know I hate to love you so much
I got no better place to go, that's why I always show up
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This is a great commentary on how people work and accomplish nothing because they waste their time buying into popular culture rather then getting on board and selling things to the people who will buy into the image. It's a song that discipline and awareness to the secret of success is what will get you satisfaction regardless of the meaningless dreams MTV and everything else sells you. Tila Tequila etc...
the beginning of the song features and excerpt from the movie slackers, and the final dialogue is from the movie altered states. also, this is an amazing song.
Love it.
half a bottle of PREDNISONE [prednisone (Deltasone, Liquid Pred) a drug used for suppressing the immune system and inflammation]
just as long as playing AGENT don't distrupt my funeral's progress
two-for-one specials, if you order SHOULDER devils
It doesn't have to do with inflammation - it's about calming his body in order to accommodate the lazy uninspired world around him. He's the frustrated intellectual/artist who's living in an apathetic noncreative society that doesn't care if people devote their lives to something higher, like art; in that way he'll never be understood, since no one cares to listen. That's what the "Sounds of Nature Volume 1 in my headphones" has to do with - he's dumbing himself down as a consequence of his "overdose of passion." That "overdose," of course, is mean sarcastically....
It doesn't have to do with inflammation - it's about calming his body in order to accommodate the lazy uninspired world around him. He's the frustrated intellectual/artist who's living in an apathetic noncreative society that doesn't care if people devote their lives to something higher, like art; in that way he'll never be understood, since no one cares to listen. That's what the "Sounds of Nature Volume 1 in my headphones" has to do with - he's dumbing himself down as a consequence of his "overdose of passion." That "overdose," of course, is mean sarcastically.
(By the way, just a general comment unrelated to your post: that ridiculous "got the sounds of nature for you born in my headphones" as written above - I mean, really, that doesn't make any sense. It's obviously "Volume 1," not "for you born in").
"Agent" doesn't have anything to do with a pharmacological agent... It's a lot deeper than that. He's talking about agency, individuality, freedom. The world wants him to go along with his mortality, which he rejects in favor of his freedom to struggle. "Just as long as playing agent doesn't disrupt my funeral's progress" is meaningful on several levels. Society undermines and devalues agency to the point where they say he's just "playing" agent, as if there's no such thing in reality as agency and claiming agency for oneself is something trivial that a child would do. He believes he should not have to let his fate/mortality get in the way of his agency, but society will only accept him as an artist "just so long as [his artistic pursuit] doesn't disrupt [his] funeral's progress."
just some corrections. "Right now I'm heading home, got sounds of nature volume one in my headphones, and half a bottle of prednisone" and definitely "2 for 1 specials if you order shoulder devils" and I think the last part, I'm not positive but I think the line " Head slow, running out of petrol, but I won't let go of this gas pedal until I'm settled and they finally "WET" me with that sweet blind security so insecure and messy" I think it's "wet" because it kind of sounds like this may be a reference to crying maybe? that's always been my take on it anyways. and to me this song is about the "fuck it" mentality of our generation, and how everyone seems to have to work shit jobs, like gas station clerks and shit, and also how doctors these days seem to have a pill they prescribe for everything.