Lyric discussion by redressintruth 

Cover art for Mr. Jones lyrics by Counting Crows

The singer is saying that beauty standards are not a sheer preset tokenized representation/expectation of what society's programmed, naively following this will not lead to true appreciation and ultimately happiness ...

People compete and fight amongst each other for what they were told they should find beautiful, without ever thinking of what they find beautiful ...

"Lions don't lose sleep over the opinions of sheep" - Imam Al-Shafi'i

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