I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
I can't explain glacial motion
Or why Los Angeles don't drop into the ocean
I can't unfold the layers of mystery
Or piece together the tragedy of history, cause
Those lucky suckers,
They don't have to work
Make 3D billboards and big
30-foot smurfs.
Everybody wants to be naked and famous,
Everybody wants to be just like me
I'm naked
And famous
I met a poet, said she didn't like the smell of it
Then took her clothes off in a restaurant for the hell of it
I met a DJ who lived in seclusion
Reality and sobriety were her only delusions, and
Those lucky bastards
They didn't have to work
Make 3D billboards and big
30-foot smurfs
Don't get a nosebleed,
Don't get upset
We can't be naked and famous
Just yet
There's a big old dollar sign
On the sunset strip
You can send your friend a postcard
It ain't worth the trip
Or why Los Angeles don't drop into the ocean
I can't unfold the layers of mystery
Or piece together the tragedy of history, cause
Those lucky suckers,
They don't have to work
Make 3D billboards and big
30-foot smurfs.
Everybody wants to be naked and famous,
Everybody wants to be just like me
I'm naked
And famous
I met a poet, said she didn't like the smell of it
Then took her clothes off in a restaurant for the hell of it
I met a DJ who lived in seclusion
Reality and sobriety were her only delusions, and
Those lucky bastards
They didn't have to work
Make 3D billboards and big
30-foot smurfs
Don't get a nosebleed,
Don't get upset
We can't be naked and famous
Just yet
There's a big old dollar sign
On the sunset strip
You can send your friend a postcard
It ain't worth the trip
Lyrics submitted by carboncentric, edited by DrThunder
Naked and Famous Lyrics as written by David Michael Dederer Chris Ballew
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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They are saying "smirks", if you listen to the boston demo of the song you hear it clearly
yeah, it's smirks, but 30-foot smurfs is a hell of a lot funnier
Actually, I think it's talking about how the singer keeps seeing all these billboards of scantily clad women and men, and laments the fact that they're getting paid loads of cash to essentially be naked.
True...he's kinda, mocking models.
It could mean that a man wants to be a still-life as opposed living breathing human. It would be easier just to be easier to be a big 30-foot smurf that made no noise and not have to breathe. When the singer his nakedness and famousness, I think he is crying out for help.
Let me clarify my random comments...The singer would rather be a 30-foot smurf that made no noise and didn't breathe because the smurf would have to deal with life. When the singer asserts his nakedness and famousness, I think he is crying out for help. Everybody wants fame but the singer is warning them that fame isn't worth the price. There's a big old dollar sign on the sunset strip...could mean that all those Hollywood honchos want is money.
Wow I love this song, one of my personal favs off of the album. I think i might make a new screen name or 2 usin this title...
One day I'm gonna' be naked and famous. My name's Vic Savino, remember it...
strange, i always thought it was "big 30 foot smirks" which makes more sense to me... but i guess the presidents thought otherwise.
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