This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Be strong and you will be renewed
I was raised in a tragedy by slaves
where kids are drug addicts or
they are bored and lazy still
I return to my home town and
it's just like going to a funeral
and all of them are dying in love
with paradise idle conversation makes
them wise did you hear the one about
Greg a rare talent he was unsung until
the blow came no one really dies they
just get fired our legacy to retire
young and all of them are drowning the
waves of apathy trust fund junkies slamming
the debris it's a dream identify now and then
I miss her her masochistic hands fulfilling
empty plans and all of us
our lying on golden shores of greed
we're dead by thirty dead by thirty
dead in daydream
I was raised in a tragedy by slaves
where kids are drug addicts or
they are bored and lazy still
I return to my home town and
it's just like going to a funeral
and all of them are dying in love
with paradise idle conversation makes
them wise did you hear the one about
Greg a rare talent he was unsung until
the blow came no one really dies they
just get fired our legacy to retire
young and all of them are drowning the
waves of apathy trust fund junkies slamming
the debris it's a dream identify now and then
I miss her her masochistic hands fulfilling
empty plans and all of us
our lying on golden shores of greed
we're dead by thirty dead by thirty
dead in daydream
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I like this song, it seems to me like it is about just how sucky the place and time he was raised is. Seems to be kind of pessimistic, but it's a cool song. I think I like Bad Astronaut
yeah, i think you
are right
(sorry about the split.)
pessimisitc as all hell I love this song. My fav BA song.(or one of them) this is the gritty and dirty side of things we all have to face. I dont even know this is just the fuckin song and its chilling. There seems to be this obsession with age and fear of getting old...but the phrase "Were dead by thirty" is actually a reference to the movie Logans Run
Logans Run is a kinda campy but cool sci fi movie in which in the furue on people's 30th birthdays they are hurled into space....these people are caught by "runners" employed to track them down...but what happens when one of the runners turns 30 ...??? rent it if you havent seen it then listen to the song
the electronic subtile part is really great !
I like this song, and I think it likes me too.
i think what joey means with "we're dead by thirty" is that when people turn thirty they're still alive but it wouldn't matter if they were dead 'cause all they do is hang around, watch tv, work... they don't have a real life anymore! i think this song is in general about society... people are greedy, all they do is try to earn as much money as possible. and i think "i was raised in a tragedy by slaves" means that his parents (as well as all the other grown up workers) are slaves to the state... they do what laws, politicians etc. tell them to do! and the kids get really depressed 'cause they don't wanna end this way... so they take drugs or they're bored and lazy!... that's what the song means to me... thanks for reading!
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