its amazing how far music can come.. 24 years after it released and its one of the most heartfelt songs ive heard
Got that nine to five on a weekday
Make you rushin' out the door
No need to feel overwhelmed
You've been through this before
It's the same shit, different day
On that grind until you drop
Movin' to the rhythm, ridin' on your flow
Got that groove that you can't stop
Livin' the dream, livin' the dream
Uggghhh, clean up on isle five
Livin' the dream, livin' the dream
Price check for groceries please
Livin' the dream, livin' the dream
Ma'am, please don't eat that.
Livin' the dream, livin' the dream
Workin' hard or hardly workin
So you livin' that dream yet
Oh my my, got my 15 in a minute
You smoke that weed and you'll lose your head
Ha! Now tell me how I'm never trippin'
Huh, your manager outta hear this
Ok boomer, I'm only a temp
Embrace the suck. It'll make you a man
Sure, like I'm one shift closer to livin' the dream
Everyday brings a new vibration
Take a curveball & make it swing
Keep on livin' in the light
Burn 'em up like little wing
Don't need no contemplation
When we're rockin' in the dance hall
Cause music is my meditation and
Rhythm is my soul
Livin' the dream, livin' the dream
Oh god, I slept in again
Livin' the dream, livin' the dream
I think I still got a little roach-o
Livin' the dream, livin' the dream
Welp, better have one for the road
Livin' the dream, livin' the dream
Ahh, I got scoobed again
Make you rushin' out the door
No need to feel overwhelmed
You've been through this before
It's the same shit, different day
On that grind until you drop
Movin' to the rhythm, ridin' on your flow
Got that groove that you can't stop
Livin' the dream, livin' the dream
Uggghhh, clean up on isle five
Livin' the dream, livin' the dream
Price check for groceries please
Livin' the dream, livin' the dream
Ma'am, please don't eat that.
Livin' the dream, livin' the dream
Workin' hard or hardly workin
So you livin' that dream yet
Oh my my, got my 15 in a minute
You smoke that weed and you'll lose your head
Ha! Now tell me how I'm never trippin'
Huh, your manager outta hear this
Ok boomer, I'm only a temp
Embrace the suck. It'll make you a man
Sure, like I'm one shift closer to livin' the dream
Everyday brings a new vibration
Take a curveball & make it swing
Keep on livin' in the light
Burn 'em up like little wing
Don't need no contemplation
When we're rockin' in the dance hall
Cause music is my meditation and
Rhythm is my soul
Livin' the dream, livin' the dream
Oh god, I slept in again
Livin' the dream, livin' the dream
I think I still got a little roach-o
Livin' the dream, livin' the dream
Welp, better have one for the road
Livin' the dream, livin' the dream
Ahh, I got scoobed again
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In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Cajun Girl
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Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
This song is so honest. The spoken section is so profound that when I first heard it, I thought they'd taken an excerpt from a famous speech or something. It's so true, though, the decline in society. It vaguely reminds me of the book Fahrenheit 451.