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I'm so alive
I'm so enlightened
I can barely survive
A night in my mind
So I've got a plan
I'm gonna find out just how boring I am
And have a good time
'Cause ever since I tried
Trying not to find
Every little meaning in my life
It's been fine
I've been cool
With my new golden rule
Numb is the new deep
Done with the old me
And talk is the same cheap, it's been
Is there a God?
Why is he waiting?
Don't you think of it odd
When he knows my address?
And look at the stars
Don't it remind you just how feeble we are?
Well it used to, I guess
'Cause ever since I tried
Trying not to find
Every little meaning in my life
It's been fine
I've been cool
With my new golden rule
Numb is the new deep
Done with the old me
And talk is the same cheap, it's been
I'm a new man
I wear a new cologne and
You wouldn't know me if your eyes were closed
I know what you'll say
'This won't last longer than the rest of the day'
But you're wrong this time
You're wrong
Numb is the new deep
Done with the old me
I'm over the analyzing
Tonight
Stop trying to figure it out
(You try to figure, you try to figure it out)
Deep will only bring you down
You know, I used to be the back
porch poet with my book of rhymes
Always open knowing all the time I'm probably
Never gonna find the perfect rhyme
For 'heavier things'
I'm so enlightened
I can barely survive
A night in my mind
So I've got a plan
I'm gonna find out just how boring I am
And have a good time
'Cause ever since I tried
Trying not to find
Every little meaning in my life
It's been fine
I've been cool
With my new golden rule
Numb is the new deep
Done with the old me
And talk is the same cheap, it's been
Is there a God?
Why is he waiting?
Don't you think of it odd
When he knows my address?
And look at the stars
Don't it remind you just how feeble we are?
Well it used to, I guess
'Cause ever since I tried
Trying not to find
Every little meaning in my life
It's been fine
I've been cool
With my new golden rule
Numb is the new deep
Done with the old me
And talk is the same cheap, it's been
I'm a new man
I wear a new cologne and
You wouldn't know me if your eyes were closed
I know what you'll say
'This won't last longer than the rest of the day'
But you're wrong this time
You're wrong
Numb is the new deep
Done with the old me
I'm over the analyzing
Tonight
Stop trying to figure it out
(You try to figure, you try to figure it out)
Deep will only bring you down
You know, I used to be the back
porch poet with my book of rhymes
Always open knowing all the time I'm probably
Never gonna find the perfect rhyme
For 'heavier things'
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Deep will only bring you down"
-Basically, ignorance is bliss. Sometimes, it's better to leave things unknown or ambiguous.
A+++++++ Would listen again. ;)
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Rock on, John.
"Numb is the new deep"... means not feeling anything is the best thing ever. Emotions just mess everything up. Trying to over analyze life, love. friends and all it's meanings just makes you sad. I spent a lot of time listening to sad songs hoping they'd make me feel better but I was wrong.
"And look at the stars, Don't it remind you just how feeble we are?" ... wish upon a star and hope that things change. It's so funny when u think about it yet so deep :)
I love this song because it's so sarcastic, but in a way he's totally serious. haha even the guitar part is cherry, and happy...yet the song has this disgust tone to it
"Numb is the 'new deep'"
haha i love it.
I'm so alive
I'm so enlightened
I can barely survive
A night in my mind
I've got a plan
I'm gonna find out just how boring I am
And have a good time
for me this means: "oh yeah! you are right, i got to be so cool like you, see now i'm so cool, i got so much things to do, such as finding how boring i am", i think those followed lines are pretty simple, in a certain way it means: i don't care how much i can appear to you, i am what i am.
Cause ever since I tried
Trying not to find
Every little meaning in my life
It's been fine
I've been cool
With my new golden rule
i think those lines are pretty clear. it just means don't over think. sometimes when something happens to you, you keep thinking about it and create more problems than there was at first. people often tell me that i think way too much about everything, i'm getting paranoid and stuff because i see issues in everything. his new golden rule is "numb is the new deep"
Numb is the new deep
Done with the old me
And talk is the same cheap it's been
but "numb is the new deep" isn't really his "new golden rule", its just a sarcastic way to explain how he thinks from now on. those 3 lines means in a certain way "okay im gonna change myself now, ill be what you guys want me to be! im no more what i used to be! (done with the old me)", but in reality, all of this is pretty sarcastic which brings to this real meaning: "im not going to change myself for you. i am what i am" and that is his new golden rule
but that is my perspective of this song, and its good that everyone has their own opinions
this is what makes music beautiful, theres no limit :D
Anyway,can someone figure out a way to translate the title? new deep?
I'm italian,and i'm trying to translate it,but i'm having some difficulties :D
Simple example: You meet a girl that you immediately connect with. She makes you laugh, smile, feel important, valued and attractive. As a result of this connection you maintain contact with her at first as friends, but in a short period you find her to be one of the most beautiful women you've met. At this point you are still in the friendship stages with her, and decide to bring her out to meet your closest friends. The next day you get in touch with one of your friends, who is perhaps the most trusted and influential of them all, and ask what he thought of her. He says, "She was cool and all, but man definitely not easy on the eyes (and perhaps in most peoples eyes she's not). You could do so much better than that." Validating your friends opinion, as you have always done in the past, you ignore what you knew to be true to yourself before you'd allowed external opinions to enter your mind. At this point, you suppress your own beliefs, values and feelings, and never pursue anything more than a friendship with the girl.
The whole porch thing is in reference to never finding the perfect rhymes for his album 'Heavier Things.' What I take from it is the notion that perfection is impermanent. “A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”- Chuck Palahniuk. Perfect can't last forever, otherwise we wouldn't appreciate it by knowing imperfection.
The only thing I can't figure out yet is "I'm gonna figure out how boring I am and have a good time." Perhaps this is a "perfect" example of his understanding that he may never find the perfect rhymes for his album?
Regardless of everything I've said, everyone should take from this song exactly what it means to them. Otherwise this could be a perfect example of everything we just shared, lol.
i think the song is kind of sad. almost a loss of innocence in a way, to want to stop questioning. but i guess why this song means this particular meaning to me is because i'm finding out how exhausting and stressfull it is to analize every little situation in life. as i eluded to above, should i be with this guy? should i be in this program? if i make this decision is it true to the person i am? does it even matter who i am? is this where i'm supposed to be?
[it sort of reminds me a beetles line: living is easier with eyes closed, no excatly the same idea, but it ties in]
Like ProudesterMonkey said, "fine" and "cool" are probably the least convincing words you could use. Those are the type of words you use when you're NOT ok, but you use them because you really don't want to talk about it.
I would think that this is something he tried; you know, trying not to analyze everything because it gets frustrating. Like at the part where he goes:
"I know what you'll say
'This won't last longer than the rest of the day'
But you're wrong this time"
Like he tells people "I'm just going to chill out and not over-think it" and the people who know him are like "Yeah, right, sure John." I guess it's just who he is, with all of his crazy thoughts and whatnot. But then, without them, we wouldn't be enjoying such good music, would we?
(side note: I find it funny that we're analyzing a song about analyzing xD)
He's also said on a number of occasions that, in hindsight, the song is unsatisfactory somehow. I wish he'd clarify what he means, because I like it. The tone sort of typifies him for me. Not every one of his songs has to include some anthemic doctrine on life. He can convey some deep ideas without writing a song like "Belief" every time. Songs like this works best for me as an occasional reminders to loosen my tie every once in a while. Earnest doesn't have to be nauseatingly pensive.