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Your great-grandfather was a great lawyer,
And his kid made a mint off the war,
Your father shot stills and then directed films
That your mom did publicity for.
I saw your older sis on the year's best book list,
And your brother, he manages bands.
And you're keen to downplay
But you're quick to betray
With one well turned out wave of your hand,
You come from wealth,
Yeah, you've got wealth.
What a bitch they didn't give you much else.
I heard cuts by The Kinks on your speakers,
I saw Poe and Artaud on your shelves.
While The Last Laugh's first scene
On your flat panel screen
Lit Chanel that you've wrapped around yourself.
You've got outsider art by an artist who arguably kidnapped a kid on your wall,
While your designers have slyly
Directed the eye down clean lines in your well-lit hall.
You've got taste, you've got taste,
What a waste that that's all that you have.
You wrote your thesis on the Gospel of Thomas,
You shot some reversal film in Angkor Wat,
And this book you once read
Says there's less people dead
At this point now than those who are not.
And this film we once saw was reviled for its flaws,
But its flaws were what made us have fun.
And the life some folks had might have made us feel bad,
Why feel bad man, it's nothing that you've done.
It's all in your hand, it's all in your hand,
Like a gun, like a globe, like a grand.
And this thing you once said disappeared from my head
In the time that it took to be amazed.
And this thing you once did might have dazzled the kids,
But the kids once grown up are gonna walk away.
And your world is gonna change nothing
And our world is gonna change nothing
And his kid made a mint off the war,
Your father shot stills and then directed films
That your mom did publicity for.
I saw your older sis on the year's best book list,
And your brother, he manages bands.
But you're quick to betray
With one well turned out wave of your hand,
You come from wealth,
Yeah, you've got wealth.
What a bitch they didn't give you much else.
I saw Poe and Artaud on your shelves.
While The Last Laugh's first scene
On your flat panel screen
Lit Chanel that you've wrapped around yourself.
You've got outsider art by an artist who arguably kidnapped a kid on your wall,
While your designers have slyly
Directed the eye down clean lines in your well-lit hall.
What a waste that that's all that you have.
You shot some reversal film in Angkor Wat,
And this book you once read
Says there's less people dead
At this point now than those who are not.
And this film we once saw was reviled for its flaws,
But its flaws were what made us have fun.
And the life some folks had might have made us feel bad,
Why feel bad man, it's nothing that you've done.
It's all in your hand, it's all in your hand,
Like a gun, like a globe, like a grand.
In the time that it took to be amazed.
And this thing you once did might have dazzled the kids,
But the kids once grown up are gonna walk away.
And your world is gonna change nothing
And our world is gonna change nothing
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"And this book you once read said there's less people dead at this point now than those who are not" is definitely a reference to "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.
few things: "you come from wealth" and "cuts by The Kinks"
Seems to be about elitism and/or pretentiousness ... and how all the hip stuff you like/do will not amount to anything meaningful if you don't have anything else in your life.
I think The Last Laugh refers to the film by F.W. Murnau, hence why it'd be on a flat panel TV (it also ties in to the pretentiousness theme, cause it'd be a real "film geek" film).
Poe and Artaud*
Hehe.
I was waiting for someone to show me how badly I fucked that up. Thank you. :P
Defiantly about pretentious people. More to the point about the kind of people you find in Hollywood; people who are surrounded by art and artists but don't absorb any of the art they surround themselves with. They "have taste" in that they know what's good, but they only make what they think people want to hear/see, and so they end up nothing but walking cleches rather than the artists that were genuine, and became everlasting because of it.
Is "Anchor Watt" meant to be Angkor Wat? The first one doesn't really make sense and the second one's a pretty famous Cambodian monument which kinda fits with the whole privelaged upbringing thing? Just a thought, anyway.
It's "the Last Laugh's first scene," not foreseen.
Should be "You've got outsider art by an artist who arguably kidnapped a kid on the wall"