Bright Eyes – Devil Town (Daniel Johnston cover)

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  General Comment:This song struck a really personal note with me. I was getting into religion, and started hanging out with one of my good friends and his stepmother, who was highly religious. Out of the blue, all of a sudden, she started claiming all our friends on facebook were satanists, and that we were too. So, that's what this song always reminds me of. It makes me laugh.

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  General Comment:This song to me describes a person going through a time where everything is fake. I specifically think of substance abuse. The realizes one day that none of his friends are really real without the substance. Also he didnt even realize all this was negative. People can get warped into the life and not even realize it until it's to late sadley.

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  General Comment:Is that Maria Taylor I hear at the end?

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  General Comment:I just took it to be about perspective, and how when you leave a place, you learn that everyone else views you differently. He was always a vampire (metaphorically), he just didn't learn it until he saw what nonvampires looked like.

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  General Comment:Emotional vampires.
  
  "East London is a vampire
  It sucks the joy right out of me"

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  General Comment:I've always really related to this song.
  Obviously other people may interpret it differently, but that's half the beauty of music.
  By 'vampires' I always felt that it was just a metaphor about deplorable people who just suck the life out of you. And in the end realizes he is no different. I feel it really describes where I live. Everyone here just fucks one another over, theres no such thing as lasting friendship here. I used to think I was so different then everyone else, and above them but in time realized I'm really no different.

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  General Comment:See!!
  
  another mistakes in a suppposedly correction of the first comment I did...hahaha

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  General Comment:* correction*
  
  Really!! Daniel Johnston is a Bi-polar?
  
  I woner why I had that mistakes, maybe I am really a BP...LOL!

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  General Comment:Don't fight here pls...
  
  Raly, Johnson Thong is a bi-polar?!?!
  They said I might be one too. ( Well, I want to consult a doctort about it, I hope I am NOT)
  
  But sometimes it made me thinks that thjat's kinda exciting, what's exciting about it? I don't KNow!
  What I;m sure of is, "Life is Like a Box Of Chocolates, you never know What you'll gonna get" - Forrest Gump's MOther

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  General Comment:listen to the songs daniel wrote around the same time as this one....
  
  clearly a reference to his delusions.
  
  either way...conor cover daniel j. is a great thing and I'm happy that it happened...
  
  i really wish he would've covered a different song though....just because it's not my fav. Daniel Johnston song

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