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I am buried up to my neck in
Contradictionary lies
I take pride as the kind of illiterature
I'm very ape and very nice
If you ever need anything please don't hesitate
to ask someone else first
I'm too busy acting like I'm not naive.
I've seen it all I was here first
Out of the ground
Into the sky
Out of the sky
Into the dirt
Contradictionary lies
I take pride as the kind of illiterature
I'm very ape and very nice
If you ever need anything please don't hesitate
to ask someone else first
I'm too busy acting like I'm not naive.
I've seen it all I was here first
Out of the ground
Into the sky
Out of the sky
Into the dirt
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Any-whey the song is a an absolute masterpiece.
"... if you ever need anything please don't hesitate
to ask someone else first
i'm too busy acting like i'm not naive
I've seen it all i was here first ..."
what it meant to me at that moment i'm gonna keep to myself (and its noway near to what some of you are posting here) but it did save my life
i'm 34 now and have no plans to check out early.
thank you Kurt for being there at the right time, i wish i could have been there for you man.
any who, my point is, stop arguing about the meaning of songs and lyrics. get it the way you want to get it because none of you really knows true meaning of it and the only one who really knows what it means is no longer available for comments.
― David Foster Wallace
The out of the ground, into the sky, out of the sky, into the ground part is telling how irony was used to debunk stuff for liberty's sake ("into the sky", and the eventual fall of irony as something liberating and more enfeebling ("into the dirt").
I thought of this song when I ran into the quote. "take pride as king of illiterature" (irony is literary savvy and "hip"). School was also about the scene being full of one-upmanship.
“Irony and cynicism were just what the U.S. hypocrisy of the fifties and sixties called for. That’s what made the early postmodernists great artists. The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates. The virtuous always triumph? Ward Cleaver is the prototypical fifties father? “Sure.” Sarcasm, parody, absurdism and irony are great ways to strip off stuff’s mask and show the unpleasant reality behind it. The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, “then” what do we do? Irony’s useful for debunking illusions, but most of the illusion-debunking in the U.S. has now been done and redone. Once everybody knows that equality of opportunity is bunk and Mike Brady’s bunk and Just Say No is bunk, now what do we do? All we seem to want to do is keep ridiculing the stuff. Postmodern irony and cynicism’s become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what’s wrong, because they’ll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony’s gone from liberating to enslaving. There’s some great essay somewhere that has a line about irony being the song of the prisoner who’s come to love his cage.”
― David Foster Wallace
An attempt at debunking irony being steeped in irony.
On "If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first. I'm too busy acting like I'm not naive. I've seen it all, I was here first", Kurt says to dont ask the news who's telling the truth
Well, that's my interpretation :)
he's a moron but he feels more intelligent than the entire family just because he was here first... ._.
Out of the sky Into the dirt)his meteoric rise to stardom, his depression, how dissapointed he was (I'm too busy acting like I'm not naive I've seen it all, I was here first)
And his low self-steem? (I am buried up to my neck in contradictionary flies) you know, like the people who isolate themselves trying to protect themselves yet hating themselves...
Those are my thoughts.
except for the part that Kurt died