Let's make this complicated
Thinking is overrated
We're busting out
Of this shitty little town
THis stanza is reffering to a pair of friends who are tired of always being predictable, and they are sick of the small town life. THey want to leave because everyone thinks that they will be "lima losers" who stay in their hometown for the rest of their lives.
Green grass and colored lenses
Tear down these picket fences
Burn in our beds
While the city lies sleeping
The friends are tired of all of the illusions of small town life. They could be classified as "disgusted" with how the people in this town live. They don't want to grow up to be like all of the people in their town.
Blindfold a new direction
Stop asking better questions
Don't figure out
That we're never getting out
They are blindly leaving because no one has ever left before. They decided not to ask any questions because their fear is that they will never leave.
Why oh why?
Are we starting up and going down?
My oh my
Just the two of us in Nothingtown
Our superhero play
We'll leave this town today
And I'll row it if you steer it
I'll yell until you hear it
Hold on tighter
With my lighter
Shining through
They are pleading to know when they can leave, if they will leave, and why no one thinks they will never leave. They are only seen as their "lighter" (refering to the smoking type, but it could be a metaphor) which is a metaphor to everyone thinking that they are losers (using the connotation of a smoker as a loser who will never go anywhere in life). The fact that they are only seen as losers who will end up staying in town makes them feel hapless at the aspect of leaving.
Still stuck in Nothingtown
Still stuck in Nothingtown
Come on let's go
They are forever going to be stuck in that nothing town state, but they desperately want to leave.
Let's make this complicated Thinking is overrated We're busting out Of this shitty little town
THis stanza is reffering to a pair of friends who are tired of always being predictable, and they are sick of the small town life. THey want to leave because everyone thinks that they will be "lima losers" who stay in their hometown for the rest of their lives.
Green grass and colored lenses Tear down these picket fences Burn in our beds While the city lies sleeping
The friends are tired of all of the illusions of small town life. They could be classified as "disgusted" with how the people in this town live. They don't want to grow up to be like all of the people in their town.
Blindfold a new direction Stop asking better questions Don't figure out That we're never getting out
They are blindly leaving because no one has ever left before. They decided not to ask any questions because their fear is that they will never leave.
Why oh why? Are we starting up and going down? My oh my Just the two of us in Nothingtown Our superhero play We'll leave this town today And I'll row it if you steer it I'll yell until you hear it Hold on tighter With my lighter Shining through
They are pleading to know when they can leave, if they will leave, and why no one thinks they will never leave. They are only seen as their "lighter" (refering to the smoking type, but it could be a metaphor) which is a metaphor to everyone thinking that they are losers (using the connotation of a smoker as a loser who will never go anywhere in life). The fact that they are only seen as losers who will end up staying in town makes them feel hapless at the aspect of leaving.
Still stuck in Nothingtown Still stuck in Nothingtown Come on let's go
They are forever going to be stuck in that nothing town state, but they desperately want to leave.