@Image In Nation I came here (and resurrected my SongMeanings login) to say that. The lyrics above have two errors, substituting "wrath" for "warmth" and "come down" for "calm down".
@Image In Nation I came here (and resurrected my SongMeanings login) to say that. The lyrics above have two errors, substituting "wrath" for "warmth" and "come down" for "calm down".
Hearing "come down" for "calm down" is understandable. The sounds are very similar, and he was just talking about flying an airplane and strafing his school. But it ruins the poetry of the line, which is about being an adolescent rebel without a clue who makes life tough and unpleasant for himself by doing the opposite of what he's told....
Hearing "come down" for "calm down" is understandable. The sounds are very similar, and he was just talking about flying an airplane and strafing his school. But it ruins the poetry of the line, which is about being an adolescent rebel without a clue who makes life tough and unpleasant for himself by doing the opposite of what he's told.
This is the critical point of each verse, where the tension of both the words and the music maxes out (before the title line brings it all home). In each case, "they" tell the first-person narrator one thing and he does the opposite. It's clearer but more prosaic in the other verses. This requires a little more thought, but you get a bigger payoff in exchange.
Swapping "wrath" for "warmth" is less big a deal, but also a dumber mistake. It's easy to hear the word if you listen instead of assuming he'll repeat himself.
I believe the line actually says
"I hid in the clouded warmth of the crowd but when they said, "Calm down," I threw up"
@Image In Nation I came here (and resurrected my SongMeanings login) to say that. The lyrics above have two errors, substituting "wrath" for "warmth" and "come down" for "calm down".
@Image In Nation I came here (and resurrected my SongMeanings login) to say that. The lyrics above have two errors, substituting "wrath" for "warmth" and "come down" for "calm down".
Hearing "come down" for "calm down" is understandable. The sounds are very similar, and he was just talking about flying an airplane and strafing his school. But it ruins the poetry of the line, which is about being an adolescent rebel without a clue who makes life tough and unpleasant for himself by doing the opposite of what he's told....
Hearing "come down" for "calm down" is understandable. The sounds are very similar, and he was just talking about flying an airplane and strafing his school. But it ruins the poetry of the line, which is about being an adolescent rebel without a clue who makes life tough and unpleasant for himself by doing the opposite of what he's told.
This is the critical point of each verse, where the tension of both the words and the music maxes out (before the title line brings it all home). In each case, "they" tell the first-person narrator one thing and he does the opposite. It's clearer but more prosaic in the other verses. This requires a little more thought, but you get a bigger payoff in exchange.
Swapping "wrath" for "warmth" is less big a deal, but also a dumber mistake. It's easy to hear the word if you listen instead of assuming he'll repeat himself.