Andrew Bird rarely plays the same version of his songs twice, so there are plenty of different versions to look at. Here I'll just post a few.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnXCzFnkxtY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EjaVr20cIg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ3jgDpjhf0
If you don't get a chance to listen, I still plan to perform my own version of the song before discussing it in class.
These lyrics have had a very large impact on my own views on life and how I think to handle myself religiously and philosophically. I'll include the lyrics under here.
He's keeping busy, yeah, he's bleeding stones
With his machinations and his palindromes
It was anything but hear the voice
Anything but hear the voice
It was anything but hear the voice that says that we're all basically alone
Poor Professor Pynchon had only good intentions when he
Put his Bunsen burners all away
And turning to a playground in a Petri dish
Where single cells would swing their fists at anything that looks like easy prey
In this nature show that rages every day
It was then he heard his intuition say
We were all basically alone
And despite what all his studies had shown
That what's mistaken for closeness is just a case of mitosis
And why do some show no mercy while others are painfully shy?
Tell me doctor, can you quantify?
He just wants to know the reason why
The reason why
Why do they congregate in groups of four,
Scatter like a billion spores and let the wind just carry them away?
How can kids be so mean?
Our famous doctor tried to glean as he went home at the end of the day
In this nature show that rages every day
It was then he heard his intuition say
We were all basically alone
Despite what all his studies had shown
That what's mistaken for closeness is just a case of mitosis
Sure fatal doses of malcontent through osmosis
And why do some show no mercy while others are painfully shy?
Tell me doctor, can you quantify
The reason why?
I'll be dissecting the lyrics to how I feel they are meant to be taken. Any other ideas and views on the meaning of these words will be considered in class after I state my own.
Super cool! Can't wait!
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