It seems to me like in the first verse maybe he meets a girl, he is grounded but starting to get his hopes up, and then he sees another side of her that's worse, sees she's mixed up, so he doesn't want anything to do with her. Now that he's no longer busy mooning over a girl, he has a lot more time for his songwriting. But then he finds he also has another side to him, raw and wild and good for songs, except this other side is too strong and overpowers him.
In the chorus he wakes up a new man, possibly a Native American more tied to the land, and he starts to do a (tribal?) dance. He is now coming from a more honest place, at least.
But then he gets discouraged, feels that his songs aren't epic and that he should just get up. "Like why am I rapping?/Like do we have no ideas left?" He may be disillusioned with the fans, wearing stupid merchandise and acting like they're some big-name band like Weezer. Another band members has some demons, and is acting sort of brainwashed, and he tries to save face for them. I'm not sure whether the "white with black underneath" is a reference to good/evil or a racial thing due to the rapping, so I won't comment. But still this other band member is paranoid, but also claiming that he's still the same guy and can play. He wants to "just snap back" from their disagreements, but the singer is like don't give me that crap, the way you're acting isn't reconcilable. But the singer actually thinks the rap he wrote about it is not awful, and shows talent unlike before when he attributed it to a lack of ideas. And maybe the bad situation is over, and again he's free to dance.
It seems to me like in the first verse maybe he meets a girl, he is grounded but starting to get his hopes up, and then he sees another side of her that's worse, sees she's mixed up, so he doesn't want anything to do with her. Now that he's no longer busy mooning over a girl, he has a lot more time for his songwriting. But then he finds he also has another side to him, raw and wild and good for songs, except this other side is too strong and overpowers him.
In the chorus he wakes up a new man, possibly a Native American more tied to the land, and he starts to do a (tribal?) dance. He is now coming from a more honest place, at least.
But then he gets discouraged, feels that his songs aren't epic and that he should just get up. "Like why am I rapping?/Like do we have no ideas left?" He may be disillusioned with the fans, wearing stupid merchandise and acting like they're some big-name band like Weezer. Another band members has some demons, and is acting sort of brainwashed, and he tries to save face for them. I'm not sure whether the "white with black underneath" is a reference to good/evil or a racial thing due to the rapping, so I won't comment. But still this other band member is paranoid, but also claiming that he's still the same guy and can play. He wants to "just snap back" from their disagreements, but the singer is like don't give me that crap, the way you're acting isn't reconcilable. But the singer actually thinks the rap he wrote about it is not awful, and shows talent unlike before when he attributed it to a lack of ideas. And maybe the bad situation is over, and again he's free to dance.
I love that it ends on that line.