The Mall and Misery Lyrics

Lyric discussion by SMUSER17419002 

Cover art for The Mall and Misery lyrics by Broken Bells

TommyCreedboi is dead on. Do we really WANT to be "used to the mall and misery"? Probably not. I think a lot of people are caught in between doing all the things a person has to do in our society to survive "comfortably" and being themselves in their natural forms. We get caught between those two routes at a relatively young age...possibly an age when we should really be using who we ARE to add something the world...or just to not be miserable. There are more forces pulling people toward doing what they have to do in the conventional world than not and that's why this song exists, I think. They ARE telling people to not mute their intuitions for any reason, because so many things drown out the thoughts of individual people.