ALLLLLLLLLLLLRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY THEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNuh. For this week's episode, I 'finna' analyze a song I like very much, "New Slang" by The Shins. For the reader's sake, the lyrics will be given so they can form their own opinion and compare it to my own. The video can be found here. I would advise watching the video, because, hey. Its a good song, and it helps you understand the song a little bit better.
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Gold teeth and a curse for this town were all in my mouth.
Only, i don't know how they got out, dear.
Turn me back into the pet that i was when we met.
I was happier then with no mind-set.
And if you'd 'a took to me like
A gull takes to the wind.
Well, i'd 'a jumped from my tree
And i'd a danced like the king of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well.
New slang when you notice the stripes, the dirt in your fries.
Hope it's right when you die, old and bony.
Dawn breaks like a bull through the hall,
Never should have called
But my head's to the wall and i'm lonely.
And if you'd 'a took to me like
A gull takes to the wind.
Well, i'd 'a jumped from my tree
And i'd a danced like the kind of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well.
God speed all the bakers at dawn may they all cut their thumbs,
And bleed into their buns 'till they melt away.
I'm looking in on the good life i might be doomed never to find.
Without a trust or flaming fields am i too dumb to refine?
And if you'd 'a took to me like
Well i'd a danced like the queen of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well.
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My views on this songs are kind of all over the place. I think its about growing up in a small town where everything seems dead. Where each day whizzes past until its all just a blur and you've lost your youth and your innocence. With that youth and innocence thing, I think the song reflects on how when you are young and you don't know about all the bad things in the world, not much can get you down, and you really are living the ultimate carefree life that everyone is looking for but can't find. Its in your childhood. In the video, the way the band is separated from the town in a room with paint and decoration suiting a child's room and the fact that the band is giving us this message further enforces that until you become enlightened to how you are wasting away worrying about the world (walking about the town which is in quite a dreary color scheme) you could be opening your eyes (in the brightly colored room). I could go into further detail addressing each verse, but i have other homework to get to, so I'll just touch on a couple lines. The first line, "gold teeth and a curse for this town were all in my mouth" suggests discontent with a small town from someone living there (hence 'this town'). The third and fourth lines have a dual meaning. The lines read, "Turn me back into the pet that i was when we met.
I was happier then with no mind-set." These can mean that the 'singer' (or listener as the case may be) feels stuck in a relationship and it is bringing them down, or that the town and time has turned them into older, more melancholy people than they were in the beginning. So basically how they were before 'this town' got to them.
A'IGHT THAT'S IT FOO'! ... FIGHTERS... they are a good band BTW... btdubs... k im tired.
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