I don't think this song is so much about somebody pessimistic as it is somebody who is painfully logic in their thinking and too stubborn to change their outlook. The lyrics imply that this person is dragging the writer down with them in their bleak perspective of the world, and I almost get a sense of anger from it all.
The main message I get is, "You look at the world in such a cut-and-dry sort of way, and if you could just see it for the beauty that it truly is, your life would have so much more meaning."
I don't think this song is so much about somebody pessimistic as it is somebody who is painfully logic in their thinking and too stubborn to change their outlook. The lyrics imply that this person is dragging the writer down with them in their bleak perspective of the world, and I almost get a sense of anger from it all.
The main message I get is, "You look at the world in such a cut-and-dry sort of way, and if you could just see it for the beauty that it truly is, your life would have so much more meaning."
-Harwell