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Dying Degree Lyrics
Dresser drawers are filled with pocket change
Coupons cut, cigarettes smoked down to the butt,
Is this what dreams are made of!
Adding up subtracting down you find yourself sucking the rind
Dying degree, graying amie
Final payment made - had you forgot?
The rightful owner of one deluxe cemetery plot
Paisley satin lined how apprapoe
What a better way to go
Dying degree, graying amie
No more eating crumbs
When my pension finally comes
Your kids want eat mush anymore 'round me
Dying degree, graying amie
You work, then you die.
the line is "paisley lined satin, how apropos"
(as in how appropriate)
This song is about working all of your life. Some people work really hard to ensure they have a nice life, but they work so hard that they forget how to live, and all their life turns out to be is just work. Would you rather spend your whole life working and cutting corners to have money, or spend the money you have on nice things, and have fun every once in awhile. Anyone stuck in a working class job knows how this can consume your life, and just work until you get old. It sucks.
I absolutely love that you said this, and I agree 100%. I'll be honest, I'm a 13 year old kid, and I'm extremely skeptic of our whole fucking society. How we have to go to school for a good 18 or so years, then we spend then next 30 or 40 years working to make some one bigger than us cash! Then when we're the age of 65, we're too old to be of any use to them, then we die. Its absolute bullshit how this works. I don't know what I'm going to do, but I'm not going to...
I absolutely love that you said this, and I agree 100%. I'll be honest, I'm a 13 year old kid, and I'm extremely skeptic of our whole fucking society. How we have to go to school for a good 18 or so years, then we spend then next 30 or 40 years working to make some one bigger than us cash! Then when we're the age of 65, we're too old to be of any use to them, then we die. Its absolute bullshit how this works. I don't know what I'm going to do, but I'm not going to fall subject to this bullshit cycle of wasted life. I'm either going to find a way to live like Fat Mike, or be a hobo. Both options seem much better to me than paying all your healthy years to a company just to cover the cost of being alive. This is ridiculous...
I think it's just about being an average working class Joe whose life sort of sucks.
hella cool song but so is this whole cd
i love the mood of this song the music really matches the lyrics cos its sorta sombre or something its a really good song i like it alot and its pretty cool how its joined to the song before (the quass)
To me this a song about somebody who was a pennypincher and saved all his money, but all he got was a grave in the end. So now his kids will get to inherit his money, while he is dead.
eyah drkshadow i think you and i agree for once. ALTHOUGH......i think its about more than that. he is a penny pincher because hes trying ot live out the "punk" lifestyle and you can't really be punk and live in a nice two story house and drive a lexus and be a yuppie.
I don't think it has anything to do with the punk lifestyle. He is talking about a working class man with a family (someone like a school teacher who doesn't make alot of money, someone who has to cut coupons, & someone who has trouble making ends meet) They don't eat expensive meals (hence the crumbs) The reason I say all this is by the line about pension. That indicates a man who works all of his life at a crummy job and can;t wait to retire to collect his pension.