I imagine as this as being a song about educated 20-something urban (i.e. - hipster) lifestyle, focusing on the passive aggressive nature of dealing with problems. There's the "I don't see how we could be pleased with this," which is a sort of passive aggressive of saying "this is unacceptable." I imagine it likely involves waiting to be seated, or waiting for food at, a restaurant. The "people need to move to the back of the bus" is on the same vein. If you've ridden the bus in a large city enough, that always seems to happen where, when it gets really crowded, the people at the back won't move back anymore when those at the front are trying to get on, so someone always ends up yelling something like this, at no one in particular, so as not to cause a direct confrontation, but rather act as a defacto authority figure. In that way, this song is an interesting sociological analysis, looking at how our society has evolved to one that has a majority of individuals who expend energy to avoid conflict with the minority who would cause it.
If that makes sense.
I imagine as this as being a song about educated 20-something urban (i.e. - hipster) lifestyle, focusing on the passive aggressive nature of dealing with problems. There's the "I don't see how we could be pleased with this," which is a sort of passive aggressive of saying "this is unacceptable." I imagine it likely involves waiting to be seated, or waiting for food at, a restaurant. The "people need to move to the back of the bus" is on the same vein. If you've ridden the bus in a large city enough, that always seems to happen where, when it gets really crowded, the people at the back won't move back anymore when those at the front are trying to get on, so someone always ends up yelling something like this, at no one in particular, so as not to cause a direct confrontation, but rather act as a defacto authority figure. In that way, this song is an interesting sociological analysis, looking at how our society has evolved to one that has a majority of individuals who expend energy to avoid conflict with the minority who would cause it. If that makes sense.