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Wakin' up, I watch another sun go down
Another day spent underground
In my world of pills
And I was thinkin' how the world should have cried
On the day Jack Kirby died
I wonder if I'm ill
I'll never trust myself again
But I don't care
Just set that plastic soul on fire
And watch it melt
Life is good, a rocket sled utopia
A self imposed myopia
You gotta love this pace
Life is fast, a million winners everyday
You tell me, is this work or play
I'm never really sure
I'll never trust myself again
But I don't care
Well just set that plastic soul on fire
And watch it melt
Well I'm alive, now you watch me go
A tickle inside my brain
Where it comes from I don't know
But I'm laughin' in the flames
It's just the look in your eyes
I feel like I can fly
And then sometimes I dig it so much, I could die
I'll never make no mortal place
'Cause I don't care
Just set that plastic world on fire
And watch it melt
Well I'm alive, now you watch me go
A tickle inside my brain
Where it comes from I don't know
But I'm laughin' in the flames
It's just the look in your eyes
I feel like I can fly
And then sometimes I dig it so much, I could die
Another day spent underground
In my world of pills
And I was thinkin' how the world should have cried
On the day Jack Kirby died
I wonder if I'm ill
I'll never trust myself again
But I don't care
Just set that plastic soul on fire
And watch it melt
A self imposed myopia
You gotta love this pace
Life is fast, a million winners everyday
You tell me, is this work or play
I'm never really sure
I'll never trust myself again
But I don't care
Well just set that plastic soul on fire
And watch it melt
A tickle inside my brain
Where it comes from I don't know
But I'm laughin' in the flames
It's just the look in your eyes
I feel like I can fly
And then sometimes I dig it so much, I could die
'Cause I don't care
Just set that plastic world on fire
And watch it melt
A tickle inside my brain
Where it comes from I don't know
But I'm laughin' in the flames
It's just the look in your eyes
I feel like I can fly
And then sometimes I dig it so much, I could die
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I think it's a misanthropic view of the modern, plastic, synthetic world and a comment on the crass consumerist culture that we live in.
"I'll never make no more complaints 'Cause I don't care. Just set that plastic world on fire And watch it melt".
The fact that the world would melt rather than burn is the pivotal line. We live a manufactured, polystyrene world, where nothing is genuine. This "rocket sled utopia" that we live in is viewed by the narrator as a "self-imposed myopia" - a shortsightedness (an ignorance), as if we are blinded by own greed and cheap thrills. The idea of watching it get destroyed delights the narrator and imagines himself "dancing in the flames".
The line about Jack Kirby is Wyndorf's way of mourning a better, more innocent time. Kirby was an artist in the Golden Age of comics. The world should be more appreciative of that era, of that more innocent time, and specifically the artistic talent and integrity of Kirby's genius.
@lazaruspit Awesome comment. I've seen it more of a meltdown against this culture but it also means the world should melt instead of burn. Very nicely said. Also the Jack Kirby touch, totally got me even from the first hearing of the song. Years later, still does.
@lazaruspit Awesome comment. I've seen it more of a meltdown against this culture but it also means the world should melt instead of burn. Very nicely said. Also the Jack Kirby touch, totally got me even from the first hearing of the song. Years later, still does.
drugs
that just about wraps up any monster magnet song. what else might it be about?
Jack Kirby is considered the father of modern comic art. Dave Wyndorf is a big comic fan and some of his songs are inspired by comics he enjoys. Not that this is about any comic I can tell but It all doesn't have to be about drugs does it?
I think all too often people let their own emotions depict the meaning of a song. I'm not saying that's a negative thing, but it does tend to skew what the artist may have originally intended in his lyrics.
I think all too often people let their own emotions depict the meaning of a song. I'm not saying that's a negative thing, but it does tend to skew what the artist may have originally intended in his lyrics.
I will however agree that based on the obscurity of his lyrics that it's VERY easy to conjure up an number of psychedelic references especially if you have a history of doing drugs yourself. We make music out to be what we want...that's the beauty of it. It can mean any number things to any number of people and...
I will however agree that based on the obscurity of his lyrics that it's VERY easy to conjure up an number of psychedelic references especially if you have a history of doing drugs yourself. We make music out to be what we want...that's the beauty of it. It can mean any number things to any number of people and nobody is necessarily wrong because music is about individuality and therefore unless it's blatently clear what the artists is talking about then we have all the room in the world to "assume" what we perceive the song to be about.
So finally to your point Suicida, I'd say that it does have to be all about drugs for some people, and it doesn't :) Hope that was broad and vague enough so that I left room to be both right and wrong :P