I have this dream that I am hitting my dad with a baseball bat
And he is screaming and crying for help
And maybe halfway through it has more to do with me killing him
Then it ever did protecting myself
And I believe that yeah, dad, maybe no one is perfect
But it seems that you were pushing your luck
It just sucks it played out like this:
A terrible movie and you can tell none of the actors even give a fuck

But you look good tonight girlfriend,
Can I sleep in your bed?
And when I crawl out in the morning,
Can I stay inside your head?

'Cause you were high school
And I was just more like real life
And you were okay, okay as a girlfriend
But I was just more like his wife
I'll do the pushups
I'll wear the makeup
I'll do whatever he wants all night
'Cause you were okay, okay as a girlfriend
But I was just more like real life.

A long, long time ago my great, great, great, great grandfather
took something that did not belong to him
And that is why today there is an eagle in my veins
I am part Native American
And I am leaving as soon as I come,
As soon as I come you will probably forget my name
I hope I fall asleep at the wheel and crash my car (on the way home)
Or I could just stay here, because

you look good tonight girlfriend,
Can I sleep in your bed?
And when I crawl out in the morning,
Can I stay inside your head?

'Cause you were high school
And I was just more like real life
And you were okay, okay as a girlfriend
But I was just more like his wife
I'll wear the makeup
I'll do the pushups
I'll do whatever he wants all night
'Cause you were okay, okay as a girlfriend
But I was just more like real life.
(More like real life!)

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Personally I think this song is about a boy who had a pretty crappy dad, not necessarily physically abusive, but maybe emotionally abusive or neglectful. And when he says that his girlfriend was okay but she was high school and he was real life he meant that he liked this girl but her problems and her views were that of a teenager with not much going on outside of basic teen related drama and he felt that his problems set him on a different emotional plane where he felt less like a child and more like someone who had to grow up too fast. I think when he says that he was more like his wife and sings about doing the push-ups and putting on the make-up he is referring to the ridiculous lengths that children of neglectful parents will go to in order to feel like they have pleased their parent or done right by them due to a lack of recognition or positive attention growing up. I think that he explains this when he sings about having a dream that he was beating his dad, but it became more about killing him than of self defense, because when you grow older after so many years of pining for the attention of an emotionally distant parent you grow to resent them to a certain degree and harboring that anger and the inability to appropriately express it can manifest itself subconsciously towards a desire for control or assertion that can be expressed through extreme violence and not necessity of self protection, which may have been appropriate in the past either metaphorically (for cases of emotional abuse) or literally (for cases of physical abuse)

Personally I think this song is about a boy who had a pretty crappy dad, not necessarily physically abusive, but maybe emotionally abusive or neglectful. And when he says that his girlfriend was okay but she was high school and he was real life he meant that he liked this girl but her problems and her views were that of a teenager with not much going on outside of basic teen related drama and he felt that his problems set him on a different emotional plane where he felt less like a child and more like someone who had to grow up too fast. I think when he says that he was more like his wife and sings about doing the push-ups and putting on the make-up he is referring to the ridiculous lengths that children of neglectful parents will go to in order to feel like they have pleased their parent or done right by them due to a lack of recognition or positive attention growing up. I think that he explains this when he sings about having a dream that he was beating his dad, but it became more about killing him than of self defense, because when you grow older after so many years of pining for the attention of an emotionally distant parent you grow to resent them to a certain degree and harboring that anger and the inability to appropriately express it can manifest itself subconsciously towards a desire for control or assertion that can be expressed through extreme violence and not necessity of self protection, which may have been appropriate in the past either metaphorically (for cases of emotional abuse) or literally (for cases of physical abuse)

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pickie4on November 16, 2013 Link
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@pickie4 umm, DISAGREE. VERY physically abusive and gets in his head.

ello123on September 05, 2020