Verse about babies and guns / reference to violence = Atrocities are occurring in the World
Kings of Leon Verse = Max calling out bands / industry for not paying attention
I don't suck much less verse = Self deprecation / irony about previous verses (KOL are schmucks, they write about girls when there is all this gang violence, oh wait, I do/am doing it too - I am schmuck, oh man I hate myself)
hoplessness and charity verses = Claims his illusion of angst and hopelessness is just an excuse to not make an impact when these things are happening - yet when he thinks about making contribution (i.e. charity) he recognizes that it is superficial (bringing us back to the point his feeling of hopelessness)
Depressed verse about being at the bar again = A set up for the next verse; but basically states "I hate myself because I hate other people for doing the same thing i'm technically doing"
As you all know he has written song like this again and again, so he calls himself out for writing another self deprecating hopeless song
I cant define myself through Irony and Self deprecation (see all above, basically what he's doing)
Can't deny life through alienation - he's basically using alienation as a form of suicide - riddled with self hate, he feels to ashamed to be with anyone
From the above we can see that max is stuck in this rut that is somewhat circular - he really has no choice but to be hopeless and self deprecating (hating people for doing the samething he's doing, thereby hating himself - the theme exists on "Hate everyone" too). He is stuck in the game (the twisted web that the fake players weave). The rest of the song is a call for a paradigm shift - a change from the game all the fake players play and the web we are all tangled in. A call for belief in ones phallic sense of self, opposed to the current chaos (and paradigm).
The fake players play the game. The real players CHANGE it
Anyone else with him?
The call for change in the paradigm, as oppose to just drenching the song with self deprecating Irony, is what makes it a song different from the others
Verse about babies and guns / reference to violence = Atrocities are occurring in the World
Kings of Leon Verse = Max calling out bands / industry for not paying attention
I don't suck much less verse = Self deprecation / irony about previous verses (KOL are schmucks, they write about girls when there is all this gang violence, oh wait, I do/am doing it too - I am schmuck, oh man I hate myself)
hoplessness and charity verses = Claims his illusion of angst and hopelessness is just an excuse to not make an impact when these things are happening - yet when he thinks about making contribution (i.e. charity) he recognizes that it is superficial (bringing us back to the point his feeling of hopelessness)
Depressed verse about being at the bar again = A set up for the next verse; but basically states "I hate myself because I hate other people for doing the same thing i'm technically doing"
As you all know he has written song like this again and again, so he calls himself out for writing another self deprecating hopeless song
I cant define myself through Irony and Self deprecation (see all above, basically what he's doing) Can't deny life through alienation - he's basically using alienation as a form of suicide - riddled with self hate, he feels to ashamed to be with anyone
From the above we can see that max is stuck in this rut that is somewhat circular - he really has no choice but to be hopeless and self deprecating (hating people for doing the samething he's doing, thereby hating himself - the theme exists on "Hate everyone" too). He is stuck in the game (the twisted web that the fake players weave). The rest of the song is a call for a paradigm shift - a change from the game all the fake players play and the web we are all tangled in. A call for belief in ones phallic sense of self, opposed to the current chaos (and paradigm).
The fake players play the game. The real players CHANGE it
Anyone else with him?
The call for change in the paradigm, as oppose to just drenching the song with self deprecating Irony, is what makes it a song different from the others
Suck it high school poetry class!