Ben Folds Five – One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces

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  General Comment:I think this song is about how Folds was picked on once and it's explaining where he is now, great song.

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  My Interpretation:I LOVE this song..
  
  Basically, this is totally how I feel when I see any of the people with whom I attended high school and find out that my life is better than theirs by leaps and bounds. In the back of my mind I'm thinking "Kiss my ass... Goodbye..."
  
  The best revenge is a life well lived. :)

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  General Comment:This song is great I had a friend in college and in my senior year we used to tease him with this song cuz we all kinda got picked on as kids but he was actually a good bit shorter than us now he's a CFO. serves those bastards right!

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  General Comment:I'm in the minority with this one I guess. It's not sympathising with the narrator, imo, half as much as it's ridiculing him in a kind of tragic way. He's so proud that he's made something of his life so he can stick it to all the people who picked on him as a kid... and they barely even remember him. He's been hung up on it his whole life and they forgot about him as soon as they left school. That's pretty horrible really.

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  General Comment:Question: could Jane be the same Jane as on Reinhold?

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  General Comment:I didn't know the piano could rock so much...it's just badass.
  
  The lyrics are awesome. Ben Folds is a fucking genius.

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  General Comment:It is a blessing to anyone who found their schooldays to be the most miserable days of their lives

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  General Comment:lol charcoal stars i think u missed the point.
  great song awesoem lyrics. for u who dont know white dwarf is a magazine about war hammer (u know those lil gay ass model toy things) anyway its realy nerdy so a magazineabout it is even more nerdy lol. but we se who is laughing now so it doesnt mater that he was a nerd

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  General Comment:Suicidal dwarf... that's a good band name!

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  General Comment:I love this song... my friend told me it was about a midget who fired all these people that were mean to him... i like that a lot better than a suicidal dwarf, but i dont know.

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