Let me help you guys out here on this one. Everyone always talks about how Dave is anti-materialistic, and he does have that message in some of his songs. But come on people, find a new world!
This song is about the apathy of the masses. How we could all ban together and make the world a little better place but we don't.
We are willing to make a change (willing to punch it out) but we don't (The struggle between what we see and what we do). actual lyrics
God is looking down at us mischievously because he sees how stupid we are. We have the means (fancy car and bank account) to help out those less fortunate but we don't give these things up (won't change my ways just to please you or appease you) because we are too stuborn to give up the comforts of our own lifestyles.
Then we play the blame game (the reasons and the treasons we are all seeking) so that we don't have to feel bad about not doing anything about it ourselves. We seek up all these emotions but we are afraid to act on them for whateve reason (guilty about iintentions that aren't wicked).
In the end it basically becomes, "well, I want to help but I'm too busy and attached to my own life. But I do feel bad. Isn't that enough?"
Dave is begging the listener to seek up something beseides just emotions. Seek up action.
Let me help you guys out here on this one. Everyone always talks about how Dave is anti-materialistic, and he does have that message in some of his songs. But come on people, find a new world! This song is about the apathy of the masses. How we could all ban together and make the world a little better place but we don't. We are willing to make a change (willing to punch it out) but we don't (The struggle between what we see and what we do). actual lyrics God is looking down at us mischievously because he sees how stupid we are. We have the means (fancy car and bank account) to help out those less fortunate but we don't give these things up (won't change my ways just to please you or appease you) because we are too stuborn to give up the comforts of our own lifestyles. Then we play the blame game (the reasons and the treasons we are all seeking) so that we don't have to feel bad about not doing anything about it ourselves. We seek up all these emotions but we are afraid to act on them for whateve reason (guilty about iintentions that aren't wicked). In the end it basically becomes, "well, I want to help but I'm too busy and attached to my own life. But I do feel bad. Isn't that enough?" Dave is begging the listener to seek up something beseides just emotions. Seek up action.