First off, you MUST see this song performed live. Seriously, go buy your tickets right now!
And now that that's out of the way: The more I listen to this song, the more I think maybe it's about politics and, specifically, the band's having been criticized for "getting too political." Along the same lines as "Maybe You're Right" and "take it Back," in other words.
There are some POV changes that I can't pin down. Some of the verses are in the POV of those being criticized, trying to invalidate the protesters--and the band writing protest songs--by writing them off as "angry people" trying to drag you down, etc. Others are from the band's perspective: "just trying to lend a hand," and trying to burst the happy people's little bubbles regarding things like the disaster in Iraq, global warming, etc.
First off, you MUST see this song performed live. Seriously, go buy your tickets right now!
And now that that's out of the way: The more I listen to this song, the more I think maybe it's about politics and, specifically, the band's having been criticized for "getting too political." Along the same lines as "Maybe You're Right" and "take it Back," in other words.
There are some POV changes that I can't pin down. Some of the verses are in the POV of those being criticized, trying to invalidate the protesters--and the band writing protest songs--by writing them off as "angry people" trying to drag you down, etc. Others are from the band's perspective: "just trying to lend a hand," and trying to burst the happy people's little bubbles regarding things like the disaster in Iraq, global warming, etc.
Or maybe I'm wrong and it's just a silly song.