I thought about both of those explanations for a while, but neither really makes sense to me.
Think about the first lines "They're getting ugly; They're a horror show; And now we're laughing; Because they'll never know; That they have everything; We give them all of our own; And they tell us they're sick and they're alone." Why would you describe friends as ugly? And then why would you laugh at them and say that they have everything? That would make you sound like a pretty jealous person if you were just gawking at your friends' successes and saying that they're only there because you "gave them everything".
Same with the misfit kid thing. "And it always hurts to see them now that everything is different; We don't like to see their eyes 'cause they will never look the same." Why would it hurt to see them now that "everything is different"? I mean, if they changed and aren't mean to misfit kids anymore, then why would it hurt to see them?
I think of this song as like a story. First, I visualize a big business, with lots of executives but like 5000 times more "little people" who actually make the business survive.
The big corporate executives get more and more full of themselves and keep worrying about little issues like making an appointment when the workers of their business are dying in poverty.
The executives always screw with the workers and make them look like idiots and morons, but the workers look up at the executives and ironically pity them.
Then one day, the business crashes and all the executives are left with nothing, they're even worse off than the workers. The workers, in the spirit of comraderie, offer the once-great executives menial jobs to at least help them stay alive. But the executives are so used to this luxurious life and still look down at the workers so much, that they'd rather die than work for them. So they do.
I thought about both of those explanations for a while, but neither really makes sense to me.
Think about the first lines "They're getting ugly; They're a horror show; And now we're laughing; Because they'll never know; That they have everything; We give them all of our own; And they tell us they're sick and they're alone." Why would you describe friends as ugly? And then why would you laugh at them and say that they have everything? That would make you sound like a pretty jealous person if you were just gawking at your friends' successes and saying that they're only there because you "gave them everything".
Same with the misfit kid thing. "And it always hurts to see them now that everything is different; We don't like to see their eyes 'cause they will never look the same." Why would it hurt to see them now that "everything is different"? I mean, if they changed and aren't mean to misfit kids anymore, then why would it hurt to see them?
I think of this song as like a story. First, I visualize a big business, with lots of executives but like 5000 times more "little people" who actually make the business survive.
The big corporate executives get more and more full of themselves and keep worrying about little issues like making an appointment when the workers of their business are dying in poverty.
The executives always screw with the workers and make them look like idiots and morons, but the workers look up at the executives and ironically pity them.
Then one day, the business crashes and all the executives are left with nothing, they're even worse off than the workers. The workers, in the spirit of comraderie, offer the once-great executives menial jobs to at least help them stay alive. But the executives are so used to this luxurious life and still look down at the workers so much, that they'd rather die than work for them. So they do.