To add to what Fadeskillz said, think about life. Everything bad in the world is a direct result of human selfishness and corruption. How is that in any way God's--in whatever form you can possibly think of Him as--fault? Even if you argue that God created humanity, how could someone or something that created the entire universe in its infinite complexity and beauty, and created this tiny little planet where everything is perfect for life to exist in perfect harmony and balance, purposefully instill selfishness in the one form of organism that knows that it is an organism?
We were given this perfect place to watch over and prosper, but instead we decided to war and set up petty boundaries so we could destroy the earth and ourselves slowly and painfully. Don't ever say that's God's fault.
Now, on to my interpretation...
I think this whole album is about a relationship that Honus or one of the other bandmembers had. It starts out in medias res when the main character (alternately talking in first person and third person) is betrayed when his girlfriend whom he thinks is perfect for him, cheats on him at a party. The situation slowly deteriorates as he forces himself to hold on to the relationship and try to help her become a better person, even though he knows it will probably end badly. "Rabbit Habits" (the song) is when he realizes it is futile for two polar opposite people to try to reconcile themselves in a world as dark and evil as the one we live in, which is why he alludes to the atomic bomb. "Top Drawer" further explains this in the ridiculous striving of modern consumerism, and he finally admits that the girl is only destroying him, thus why she makes him feel like a zombie, and he only feels like a "bratwurst in" her "bun" when they have sex. There is no passion. "Poor Jackie" is the climax, when he finally confesses everything he hates about her, but he knows that she has trapped him and all he can do is concede and live with it because he's made too many mistakes to let it go. "Whalebones" is his reflective lamentation on all of his follies, though he knows it was inevitable anyway.
The modern human condition explained perfectly. Honus Honus for pres 2012.
"Everything bad in the world is a direct result of human selfishness and corruption."
"Everything bad in the world is a direct result of human selfishness and corruption."
False.
False.
And simply because we are questioning God does not mean we are absolving mankind of all wrongdoing. To repeat what SymphonicTypewriter said,take your condescending crap elsewhere, please.
And simply because we are questioning God does not mean we are absolving mankind of all wrongdoing. To repeat what SymphonicTypewriter said,take your condescending crap elsewhere, please.
To add to what Fadeskillz said, think about life. Everything bad in the world is a direct result of human selfishness and corruption. How is that in any way God's--in whatever form you can possibly think of Him as--fault? Even if you argue that God created humanity, how could someone or something that created the entire universe in its infinite complexity and beauty, and created this tiny little planet where everything is perfect for life to exist in perfect harmony and balance, purposefully instill selfishness in the one form of organism that knows that it is an organism?
We were given this perfect place to watch over and prosper, but instead we decided to war and set up petty boundaries so we could destroy the earth and ourselves slowly and painfully. Don't ever say that's God's fault.
Now, on to my interpretation...
I think this whole album is about a relationship that Honus or one of the other bandmembers had. It starts out in medias res when the main character (alternately talking in first person and third person) is betrayed when his girlfriend whom he thinks is perfect for him, cheats on him at a party. The situation slowly deteriorates as he forces himself to hold on to the relationship and try to help her become a better person, even though he knows it will probably end badly. "Rabbit Habits" (the song) is when he realizes it is futile for two polar opposite people to try to reconcile themselves in a world as dark and evil as the one we live in, which is why he alludes to the atomic bomb. "Top Drawer" further explains this in the ridiculous striving of modern consumerism, and he finally admits that the girl is only destroying him, thus why she makes him feel like a zombie, and he only feels like a "bratwurst in" her "bun" when they have sex. There is no passion. "Poor Jackie" is the climax, when he finally confesses everything he hates about her, but he knows that she has trapped him and all he can do is concede and live with it because he's made too many mistakes to let it go. "Whalebones" is his reflective lamentation on all of his follies, though he knows it was inevitable anyway.
The modern human condition explained perfectly. Honus Honus for pres 2012.
"Everything bad in the world is a direct result of human selfishness and corruption."
"Everything bad in the world is a direct result of human selfishness and corruption."
False.
False.
And simply because we are questioning God does not mean we are absolving mankind of all wrongdoing. To repeat what SymphonicTypewriter said,take your condescending crap elsewhere, please.
And simply because we are questioning God does not mean we are absolving mankind of all wrongdoing. To repeat what SymphonicTypewriter said,take your condescending crap elsewhere, please.