This song is not an ode to "carpe diem" yadda, yadda, yadda. This is not a song about activism, quitting your job, or becoming jaded as you grow older. This is more of a song about being personally active, breaking out of your dimly lit apartment monotony and doing something as oppsed to nothing. We all have things we have to do, we all have to pay bills or go to school or go to work or even something as simple as getting our cars inspected or doing the dishes. And it is too easy to fall into making a to-do list everyday and looking at them, shaking your head and thinking "Why do I have to do this stuff?"
Being personally responsible involves doing things that you don't want to do, and some of us may choose to do these things and some of us may not. Some of us may just decide to not do them (as I have many a time in my day) and just sit on our beds and put them off. But the rest of us are drowning in it. In the end, this song is really about those times when these things saturate your entire existence and it makes you sleepy/apathetic/lazy. But it never has to be that way. It is the things that we do that we love outweighing the things that bring us down which gets us stoked. This song is a signal to break out of all this.
This song is not an ode to "carpe diem" yadda, yadda, yadda. This is not a song about activism, quitting your job, or becoming jaded as you grow older. This is more of a song about being personally active, breaking out of your dimly lit apartment monotony and doing something as oppsed to nothing. We all have things we have to do, we all have to pay bills or go to school or go to work or even something as simple as getting our cars inspected or doing the dishes. And it is too easy to fall into making a to-do list everyday and looking at them, shaking your head and thinking "Why do I have to do this stuff?" Being personally responsible involves doing things that you don't want to do, and some of us may choose to do these things and some of us may not. Some of us may just decide to not do them (as I have many a time in my day) and just sit on our beds and put them off. But the rest of us are drowning in it. In the end, this song is really about those times when these things saturate your entire existence and it makes you sleepy/apathetic/lazy. But it never has to be that way. It is the things that we do that we love outweighing the things that bring us down which gets us stoked. This song is a signal to break out of all this.
-Branch, member of FM.