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It's comin' around again
They're letting it out again, again
It's comin' around again
They're letting it out again, again
When it comes
It comes abrupt
When it feels, it feels like trading brains with an imbecil, for real
Yes I feel empathetic about not being static
And not buying philosophies that are sold to me at a steal
Just when you thought it was safe to think
In comes mental piracy
What I'm looking for cannot be sold to me
I wish they all would stop trying
?Cause what I want and what I need
Is and always will be free
It's comin' around again
They're letting it out again, again
It's comin' around again
When it comes
It comes unannounced
And it feels like a matador is taunting me
With his reddest red cloth and I am the bull
Yes I feel empathetic about not being static
And not eating the bullshit that's being fed to me no more
?Cause now I'm full
Just when you thought it was safe to think
In comes mental piracy
What I ?m looking for cannot be sold to me
I wish they all would stop trying
?Cause what I want and what I need
Is and will always be free
They're letting it out again, again
It's comin' around again
They're letting it out again, again
When it comes
It comes abrupt
When it feels, it feels like trading brains with an imbecil, for real
Yes I feel empathetic about not being static
And not buying philosophies that are sold to me at a steal
Just when you thought it was safe to think
In comes mental piracy
What I'm looking for cannot be sold to me
I wish they all would stop trying
?Cause what I want and what I need
Is and always will be free
It's comin' around again
They're letting it out again, again
It's comin' around again
When it comes
It comes unannounced
And it feels like a matador is taunting me
With his reddest red cloth and I am the bull
Yes I feel empathetic about not being static
And not eating the bullshit that's being fed to me no more
?Cause now I'm full
Just when you thought it was safe to think
In comes mental piracy
What I ?m looking for cannot be sold to me
I wish they all would stop trying
?Cause what I want and what I need
Is and will always be free
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"And it feels like a matador is taunting me with his reddest red cloth and I am the bull"...
The bull is powerless to resist the red cloth, and the matador has complete control over the bull, the bull is his puppet. Much like how television has complete control over our minds. Tells us what to do, how to be, what to buy. Incubus is trying to explain that we are all sheep to this societal conformity. That the real important things in life are not found on television, magazines, and department stores. In their album Science, they have a song called "Idiot Box". All about how television is like a religion, even uses a metaphor of comparring TV to God. Most of us are powerless against the power of comformity, because we all have the basic need to feel a sense of belonging. That usually means doing what's expected of you, and TV and media is our "bible" telling us how to do that. I feel Incubus is expressing frustration and resistance to that "sheep" like behavior. To understand Incubus, I think you have to have similar feelings about things as he expresses in his songs. I have, and that is what drew me to their music.
You have to be smart to see through it all and be able to decide for yourself what is right in any given situation. IMHO.
Say what you will about Brandon Boyd, he def gets a bad rap... He's def an intelligent dude. Good stuff.
anti-conformity is just doing the opposite of everyone else without thinking about it and is just as mindless as conformity.
nonconformity is the word you are looking for but i think it should be aconformity, just like moral, immoral, then amoral.
With that being said...
I saw something on TV that blamed Barack Obama and Barack Obama alone for rising gas prices. I then realized exactly what mental piracy was.
they're letting it out again, again.
It's comin' around again
they're letting it out again, again.
When it comes,
it comes abrupt.
When it feels, it feels like trading brains with an imbecile... for real.
I don't know what to make of this beggining part of the song. Like what exactly is coming around again?
Otherwise I would say the song is about the condition of a person struggling to hold on to their own thoughts and sticking with how they feel instead of letting others opinions/philosophies/religions and general thoughts become their own or "pirate" their mind, as in brainwash them and thus discouraging that person into not being able to feel and taste a reality that everyone wants a piece of.
"clearly" is a word that we should try not to use here.