"I had been listening to "1492" a lot, and I got this idea for a record. And there was this harder music we'd been playing with while we'd been gigging during these years — but I had no words in me. I lost the ability to read. Some of the medications made it so it was hard to find words, so I couldn't write.
I needed to write a song that was really not hinting at, but truly about insanity. I had written about disillusion. I had written about disintegration. And I had written about losing faith and betrayal. There had to be something that talked about how horrifying and scary it was. Nowadays everybody says, wow, we're all crazy. Everybody's on some fuckin' pill. It's not — they're not like that, not like this was. And I needed that, a song that really said, like, this is horrible."
thats pretty interesting because to me the chorus to this song is the kind of mental nonsense a person uses to distract themselves from the craziness of their lives. i cant say it as well as adam did but that is what i get from the song and, now that ive read his comments, i dont think im far off the mark. we all have coping mechanisms.
hysterical fits of laughter,for example, is often a mask for something worthy of being very afraid of if it were ever brought to the surface. thats what adams doing here, to me. "My life...
thats pretty interesting because to me the chorus to this song is the kind of mental nonsense a person uses to distract themselves from the craziness of their lives. i cant say it as well as adam did but that is what i get from the song and, now that ive read his comments, i dont think im far off the mark. we all have coping mechanisms.
hysterical fits of laughter,for example, is often a mask for something worthy of being very afraid of if it were ever brought to the surface. thats what adams doing here, to me. "My life is a crazy contradiction and i ignore that with this silly rhyme"
in rolling stone he said
"I had been listening to "1492" a lot, and I got this idea for a record. And there was this harder music we'd been playing with while we'd been gigging during these years — but I had no words in me. I lost the ability to read. Some of the medications made it so it was hard to find words, so I couldn't write.
I needed to write a song that was really not hinting at, but truly about insanity. I had written about disillusion. I had written about disintegration. And I had written about losing faith and betrayal. There had to be something that talked about how horrifying and scary it was. Nowadays everybody says, wow, we're all crazy. Everybody's on some fuckin' pill. It's not — they're not like that, not like this was. And I needed that, a song that really said, like, this is horrible."
thats pretty interesting because to me the chorus to this song is the kind of mental nonsense a person uses to distract themselves from the craziness of their lives. i cant say it as well as adam did but that is what i get from the song and, now that ive read his comments, i dont think im far off the mark. we all have coping mechanisms. hysterical fits of laughter,for example, is often a mask for something worthy of being very afraid of if it were ever brought to the surface. thats what adams doing here, to me. "My life...
thats pretty interesting because to me the chorus to this song is the kind of mental nonsense a person uses to distract themselves from the craziness of their lives. i cant say it as well as adam did but that is what i get from the song and, now that ive read his comments, i dont think im far off the mark. we all have coping mechanisms. hysterical fits of laughter,for example, is often a mask for something worthy of being very afraid of if it were ever brought to the surface. thats what adams doing here, to me. "My life is a crazy contradiction and i ignore that with this silly rhyme"