It is always amazing to come on here and read the many different meanings people come up with. To me this is the beautiful thing about music, as many can take what they will from it, and it touches them all differently. My interpretation of this song: I believe it is basically about the world as it is today. The people in control feed consumerism to the masses. We are born and bred to buy buy buy. We are walking atm machines for these people. I think this is a defiant statement against that way of life. It is misery when your worth is measured with what you acquire at the mall. Dead mouths it costs to be alive I think is a reference to the debt each one of us will acquire over the course of our lives. It is impossible to escape with the current system. It is designed this way. Remember what it was like to feel? Think about that. When accosted by debt and force fed fear and paranoia to be kept at bay, while 1 percent of the population spends our wealth on 13 houses which never get lived in except for two months a year. Not trying to get too political, but considering Danger Mouse current situation with his record company(google it) and the fact this album leaked without even really allowing the single to get airplay leads me to believe that this is the meaning behind this song. It does cost to be alive. Should it? Where did the romance go? Where did feelings go? I don't like to feel like I'm doomed before I even got started. This is an amazing song, and to me it is a defiant statement against the way things are and possibly an attempt to get people to think. Does one really want to get more used to the mall and the misery. Thank you Broken Bells. Peace
It is always amazing to come on here and read the many different meanings people come up with. To me this is the beautiful thing about music, as many can take what they will from it, and it touches them all differently. My interpretation of this song: I believe it is basically about the world as it is today. The people in control feed consumerism to the masses. We are born and bred to buy buy buy. We are walking atm machines for these people. I think this is a defiant statement against that way of life. It is misery when your worth is measured with what you acquire at the mall. Dead mouths it costs to be alive I think is a reference to the debt each one of us will acquire over the course of our lives. It is impossible to escape with the current system. It is designed this way. Remember what it was like to feel? Think about that. When accosted by debt and force fed fear and paranoia to be kept at bay, while 1 percent of the population spends our wealth on 13 houses which never get lived in except for two months a year. Not trying to get too political, but considering Danger Mouse current situation with his record company(google it) and the fact this album leaked without even really allowing the single to get airplay leads me to believe that this is the meaning behind this song. It does cost to be alive. Should it? Where did the romance go? Where did feelings go? I don't like to feel like I'm doomed before I even got started. This is an amazing song, and to me it is a defiant statement against the way things are and possibly an attempt to get people to think. Does one really want to get more used to the mall and the misery. Thank you Broken Bells. Peace