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Better Than This Lyrics
I'm thinking over it
I think too much
It hinders my spirit
when there's never enough
Shell-game sleight of hand
To wish for something more
Honest husbands, cheating wives
Generous buyers, greedy stores
"I'll get through it, I'll get through it"
I'll say it ten times over: "I'll get through it, I'll get through it"
"I'm better than this"
That's what anchors me (I mean it weighs me down)
Can't give thanks to fear, can't say no to crowds
Guess I'll just play dumb (shouldn't be too hard : )
Peaceful people, violent guns
Sober drivers, drunken cars
I'm better than nothing and nothing is better than this
I think too much
It hinders my spirit
when there's never enough
Shell-game sleight of hand
To wish for something more
Honest husbands, cheating wives
Generous buyers, greedy stores
"I'll get through it, I'll get through it"
I'll say it ten times over: "I'll get through it, I'll get through it"
"I'm better than this"
Can't give thanks to fear, can't say no to crowds
Guess I'll just play dumb (shouldn't be too hard : )
Peaceful people, violent guns
Sober drivers, drunken cars
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to me, this sounds like he found out the person he loves was cheating on him. that she possibly doesn't know he knows ("guess i'll just play dumb..."), and that he doesn't plan on filling her in on his discovery... that he'd rather hold on to what he has left, and be the ignorant boyfriend.
i like the part where he plays word games and turns familiar occurances on end "Honest husbands, cheating wives Generous buyers, greedy stores "
"Peaceful people, violent guns Sober drivers, drunken cars "
this song is crazy good... powerful.. i'll say it 10 times over.... (ok. i won't... but only to not use rediculous quantities of space)
this song got me though a time where i was really depressed...i love it so much
To me it sounds like Jonah is just tired of all the crap in the world. When you look at the big picture of everything happening around the world your out look becomes dark. You feel so helpless and wonder "whats the point? What can I do to change it?" But, when you bring it down to the small picture and look at, for example, your group of friends (For Jonah its crowds) and you think about all the good times you have when your with them your life feels like it has meaning and purpose and that alone sometimes is what gets me through the day.
sounds like drug useage to me. then again you can apply almost any song and say "it's about drugs" and hopefully people agree with you..
It reminds me of the famous quote by Mahatma Gandhi "Be the change that you want to see in the world."