It's interesting because the song is kinda in the same vein as "It's The End of the World As We Know It" (It was written the year before Document was released, but only released recently on In Time.)-- rapid fire information that you can barely keep up with.
Mike Mills makes an interesting comment on the booklet that comes with In Time: "We started writing this song in 1986. We finished writing it in 2003. The sad thing is, between those years nothing much has changed."
News programs in the last decade and a half have been increasingly designed to cram as much information into 3-6 minute segments as possible. The words to the song make virtually no real sense on their own-- after all, just how much in-depth information can you pack into a soundbite?
Forget it, screw it, we say. It's been a bad day; please don't take a picture of it. I've had enough and I don't want to see anymore. We're well aware that life sucks (in contrast to Akakuro here; we're not all ignorant and trying to blind ourselves, some of us are just frustrated and mad as hell and don't want to take anymore.) We don't get a story anymore. We just get overloaded.
It's interesting because the song is kinda in the same vein as "It's The End of the World As We Know It" (It was written the year before Document was released, but only released recently on In Time.)-- rapid fire information that you can barely keep up with.
Mike Mills makes an interesting comment on the booklet that comes with In Time: "We started writing this song in 1986. We finished writing it in 2003. The sad thing is, between those years nothing much has changed."
News programs in the last decade and a half have been increasingly designed to cram as much information into 3-6 minute segments as possible. The words to the song make virtually no real sense on their own-- after all, just how much in-depth information can you pack into a soundbite?
Forget it, screw it, we say. It's been a bad day; please don't take a picture of it. I've had enough and I don't want to see anymore. We're well aware that life sucks (in contrast to Akakuro here; we're not all ignorant and trying to blind ourselves, some of us are just frustrated and mad as hell and don't want to take anymore.) We don't get a story anymore. We just get overloaded.