Probably my favorite from Short Bus. Has anyone considered the phrasing, though? "I think you'd be better off if you were dead", in a word for word sense, it's quite different from saying "I think we'd be better off" or "the world would be better off without you". It almost makes it seem as though it's directed to someone who is so completely down on themselves, maybe the speaker is saying "since you're so miserable, maybe you'd be better off dead".
Or it could be (and other Filter songs make it seem that this is the case) a very mobster way of putting things. Like, "you know what I think, pally. I think you'd be better off if you was dead", or "maybe a nap with the fishes might do ya some good".
Probably my favorite from Short Bus. Has anyone considered the phrasing, though? "I think you'd be better off if you were dead", in a word for word sense, it's quite different from saying "I think we'd be better off" or "the world would be better off without you". It almost makes it seem as though it's directed to someone who is so completely down on themselves, maybe the speaker is saying "since you're so miserable, maybe you'd be better off dead". Or it could be (and other Filter songs make it seem that this is the case) a very mobster way of putting things. Like, "you know what I think, pally. I think you'd be better off if you was dead", or "maybe a nap with the fishes might do ya some good".