Sage Francis isn't sexist at all, you can tell from his music. I'm pretty certain that it's a snipe at society, saying that lately in the world girls have been generalized into a stereotype of being neat, fancy and eloquent (hence cursive), and that boys are oafish and lack intellect (hence the sloppy mispelled words).
I too think the song is about life in general, and how you should set yourself goals and achieve them (with all the talk about conquering summits and finding scriptures of blind men and stuff). But some of his comments make me wonder if he's being his usual sarcastic self, saying that people set goals for themselves and try and be ambitious but end up having the same goals as everyone else (die a normal death and write the average letter). To me, the first half is both build up and then revealed sarcasm, and then the last part of the song is more personal, relating to Sage and his experiences yet again, which are really hard to interpret. Some of the lines are pretty bleak in this song, like 'life's just a lie with an 'f' in it, and death is definite'. Great line though.
Amazing song in general. Sage Francis remains my favourite lyricist.
Sage Francis isn't sexist at all, you can tell from his music. I'm pretty certain that it's a snipe at society, saying that lately in the world girls have been generalized into a stereotype of being neat, fancy and eloquent (hence cursive), and that boys are oafish and lack intellect (hence the sloppy mispelled words).
I too think the song is about life in general, and how you should set yourself goals and achieve them (with all the talk about conquering summits and finding scriptures of blind men and stuff). But some of his comments make me wonder if he's being his usual sarcastic self, saying that people set goals for themselves and try and be ambitious but end up having the same goals as everyone else (die a normal death and write the average letter). To me, the first half is both build up and then revealed sarcasm, and then the last part of the song is more personal, relating to Sage and his experiences yet again, which are really hard to interpret. Some of the lines are pretty bleak in this song, like 'life's just a lie with an 'f' in it, and death is definite'. Great line though.
Amazing song in general. Sage Francis remains my favourite lyricist.