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A Certain Type of Genius Lyrics
There is a certain type of genius who is proud to know so much
He skipped a thousand showers 'cause he doesn't need to touch He hides his bastard faces behind thick panes of glass They're all that separates him from the apish lower class And the stench of love keeps snaking up his nose, through all the snot his sinuses can hold Believing all the lies that he's been told grows old, so old A Friday night alone with friends, he's got but one or two They're geniuses like him, you see, nothing like all of you They banter and they languish with ostentatious plea Their oh-so-trendy anguish, their underground machine And he won't be there when Jesus comes around He'll write a book on what his studies found And deep inside he'll learn to fear the sound of hope, of hope He says, "Why should I even try? I will let the oil soak in my face until the pimples shine like tiny mountains set in place, this lonely valley mine, between the hills of opulence that grow in strength with time. Scarlet clusters spring from skin to hide my missing spots." Go, go, go And he won't be there when Jesus comes around He'll write a book on what his studies found And deep inside he'll long to hear the sound of hope, of hope When the world stabs you in the back, the worst thing you could do is become indifferent too There is no "they," no idiot brigade Only a thousand you's, equally as bruised
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06-25-2006
Essentially, he sings about the arrogance that afflicted an intelligent and unorthodox individual who bitterly disowned society at some point, declaring that he was above the silly and mindless games he imagined people played. He comfots himself with mental masturbation, basking in mental acquisition. But ultimately he knows how lonely he is, and how little happiness his intelligence has brought him, and how he's really just like anyone else, and that his intelligence doesn't separate him at all from anyone.
I imagine that Bemis was one of these kids. He writes a lot about intellectual anguish, about arrogance and pretention, probably to make amends for how arrogant and pretentious he's been. Or to warn kids like him.
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03-06-2007
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03-16-2008
He'll write a book on what his studies found"
I think what he's trying to say there is obvious; the kid's so focused on being intelligent that he stops believing in God.
I love how Max Bemis goes from:
"And deep inside he'll learn to fear the sound of hope, of hope"
to:
"And deep inside he'll long to hear the sound of hope, of hope"
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05-23-2008
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