| Gary Jules – Mad World (Tears for Fears cover) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Personally, to me this song represents the idea that people lead generally cyclical lives in terms of what they pursue and how they subsequently fail at what they're doing, essentially gaining no ground whatsoever. At a specific level one can see this sort of thing working out with dating and people's orientations towards their love lives. People, despite being hurt by a particular type of person, will continue to pursue the same sort of person, and wonder why relationships never work out with themselves. Woman wonder why there are no "nice guys," and men wonder why women are "crazy." At a general level you can see this cyclical nature of humanity happening throughout history. People are doomed to repeat the failures of the past, even with knowledge of the past. They repeat the same mistakes and follow the same pattern, stuck in the rut of their blindness and refusal to see that the path that they are on is the same path as others taken before, paths that inevitably lead to failure. When people go in circles, it is a very very mad world. |
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