I think this song is about a guy telling the person who loves him that they would be much happier with someone else and that he can’t make this person happy. He's trying to understand why this person loves him because he can’t fathom why they would.
He lists all of the reasons he believes the person shouldn't love him: he's arrogant and narcissistic ("I am the greatest motherfucker that you're ever going to meet") but at the same time, that arrogance stems from a deeper feeling of inferiority.
He's says that the person must not know him very well because if he/she did know him they wouldn't love him (he's angry, an underdog, feels sorry for himself, isn’t good at give and take or relationships, thinks only about himself etc.)
He states that the person thinks he must feel bad about this stuff but the guy says that he didn’t feel bad about any of it until he developed feelings for this person and started seeing himself from another person’s eyes. He really DOES feel bad about it and he’s angry at the person for making him CARE. He’s saying that this person has made him (care) love them back, which he doesn’t really want to admit to himself. He’s in denial about feeling bad about not being good enough for this person, disliking himself, and about how much he really does love this person back. It’s easier for him to tell himself that he’s fine with being how he is and not letting himself care, but deep down he knows he does and he’s mad at the other person for ruining his ability to deny and ignore these things about himself.
This part:
“i should have practised my scales
i should not be attracted to males
but you said that i should learn to love myself
make up your mind, doctor frankenstein”
...is the guy saying that the person who loves him tells him that he needs to learn to love himself (because they see through his arrogance and see his inferiority complex underneath) but he calls the person Dr. Frankenstein because things that the person has tried to change about him are the very things that contribute to his inferiority complex. He tells them to make up their mind. Should he love himself or should he change?
Throughout the song he tells the person to go ahead and love him if they’re going to but to remember they could be laughing 65% more of the time. He’s saying that this person won’t stop loving him no matter what he tells them about himself but he tells them to remember that they would be happier 65% of the time if they were with someone else. He feels bad that being who he is takes away some of this person’s (who he cares so much about) happiness and he wants them to leave him because he wants them to be happy.
At the end of the song the perecentage decreases. He’s goes from 65% to 63% and then all the way down to 25% by the end of the song. I think this could be interpreted as the guy admitting to himself that he doesn’t want the person to go or to stop loving him, that he loves them, that he’s not as arrogant or unfeeling as likes to convince himself he is.
@TheSongReader People generally don’t assign a percentage to their level of depression. Depression isn’t measurable; however, maybe when the character in GMF is counting down, they are talking about their declining T-Cell count which for obvious reasons could be tied to depression.
@TheSongReader People generally don’t assign a percentage to their level of depression. Depression isn’t measurable; however, maybe when the character in GMF is counting down, they are talking about their declining T-Cell count which for obvious reasons could be tied to depression.
@TheSongReader People generally don’t assign a percentage to their level of depression. Depression isn’t measurable; however, maybe when the character in GMF is counting down, they are talking about their declining T-Cell count which for obvious reasons could be tied to depression.
@TheSongReader People generally don’t assign a percentage to their level of depression. Depression isn’t measurable; however, maybe when the character in GMF is counting down, they are talking about their declining T-Cell count which for obvious reasons could be tied to depression.
@TheSongReader Could be, but I'm inclined to disagree. It wouldn't make sense grammatically for the countdown to be about the T-cell count, although that would be a clever interpretations. He literally counts down a percentage of "time". I see the countdown at the end more as the speaker admitting to her and to himself that he really is a motherfucker that can't make her happy.
@TheSongReader Could be, but I'm inclined to disagree. It wouldn't make sense grammatically for the countdown to be about the T-cell count, although that would be a clever interpretations. He literally counts down a percentage of "time". I see the countdown at the end more as the speaker admitting to her and to himself that he really is a motherfucker that can't make her happy.
I think this song is about a guy telling the person who loves him that they would be much happier with someone else and that he can’t make this person happy. He's trying to understand why this person loves him because he can’t fathom why they would.
He lists all of the reasons he believes the person shouldn't love him: he's arrogant and narcissistic ("I am the greatest motherfucker that you're ever going to meet") but at the same time, that arrogance stems from a deeper feeling of inferiority.
He's says that the person must not know him very well because if he/she did know him they wouldn't love him (he's angry, an underdog, feels sorry for himself, isn’t good at give and take or relationships, thinks only about himself etc.)
He states that the person thinks he must feel bad about this stuff but the guy says that he didn’t feel bad about any of it until he developed feelings for this person and started seeing himself from another person’s eyes. He really DOES feel bad about it and he’s angry at the person for making him CARE. He’s saying that this person has made him (care) love them back, which he doesn’t really want to admit to himself. He’s in denial about feeling bad about not being good enough for this person, disliking himself, and about how much he really does love this person back. It’s easier for him to tell himself that he’s fine with being how he is and not letting himself care, but deep down he knows he does and he’s mad at the other person for ruining his ability to deny and ignore these things about himself.
This part: “i should have practised my scales i should not be attracted to males but you said that i should learn to love myself make up your mind, doctor frankenstein”
...is the guy saying that the person who loves him tells him that he needs to learn to love himself (because they see through his arrogance and see his inferiority complex underneath) but he calls the person Dr. Frankenstein because things that the person has tried to change about him are the very things that contribute to his inferiority complex. He tells them to make up their mind. Should he love himself or should he change?
Throughout the song he tells the person to go ahead and love him if they’re going to but to remember they could be laughing 65% more of the time. He’s saying that this person won’t stop loving him no matter what he tells them about himself but he tells them to remember that they would be happier 65% of the time if they were with someone else. He feels bad that being who he is takes away some of this person’s (who he cares so much about) happiness and he wants them to leave him because he wants them to be happy.
At the end of the song the perecentage decreases. He’s goes from 65% to 63% and then all the way down to 25% by the end of the song. I think this could be interpreted as the guy admitting to himself that he doesn’t want the person to go or to stop loving him, that he loves them, that he’s not as arrogant or unfeeling as likes to convince himself he is.
@TheSongReader People generally don’t assign a percentage to their level of depression. Depression isn’t measurable; however, maybe when the character in GMF is counting down, they are talking about their declining T-Cell count which for obvious reasons could be tied to depression.
@TheSongReader People generally don’t assign a percentage to their level of depression. Depression isn’t measurable; however, maybe when the character in GMF is counting down, they are talking about their declining T-Cell count which for obvious reasons could be tied to depression.
@TheSongReader People generally don’t assign a percentage to their level of depression. Depression isn’t measurable; however, maybe when the character in GMF is counting down, they are talking about their declining T-Cell count which for obvious reasons could be tied to depression.
@TheSongReader People generally don’t assign a percentage to their level of depression. Depression isn’t measurable; however, maybe when the character in GMF is counting down, they are talking about their declining T-Cell count which for obvious reasons could be tied to depression.
@TheSongReader Could be, but I'm inclined to disagree. It wouldn't make sense grammatically for the countdown to be about the T-cell count, although that would be a clever interpretations. He literally counts down a percentage of "time". I see the countdown at the end more as the speaker admitting to her and to himself that he really is a motherfucker that can't make her happy.
@TheSongReader Could be, but I'm inclined to disagree. It wouldn't make sense grammatically for the countdown to be about the T-cell count, although that would be a clever interpretations. He literally counts down a percentage of "time". I see the countdown at the end more as the speaker admitting to her and to himself that he really is a motherfucker that can't make her happy.