@bottlecap6169

8 years ago

I think when it says the lines about different school ages it actually means: High schoolers paint color into their hair: High schoolers change their appearance to fit in more with others. This could also mean constantly changing themselves and their appearance so they can just stay "friends" with others. Elementary Schoolers paint mud on their faces: This is when they change themselves and their personalities so they're not left out and considered weird, and they paint mud specifically because it's changing them so that they're not clear like they used to be. Middle Schoolers paint color onto their arms: MIddle schoolers are going through adolescence, thus cutting themselves due to the stress of friends and school(although this is just to describe the depression, but in most cases, not actually meaning cutting themselves). College students paint color onto their lungs: Although most just interpreted this as smoking, I think this could also mean them breathing and having to accept the cruel world and it's lies. I saw a lot of people(and the description) coming up with simple things like elementary kids throwing mud at each other while playing and the like, but we have to remember how much symbolism and thought Powapowa-P put into his work. In fact, just looking at a song like "Please Give Me a Red Pen" can get you thinking for hours. This dude had a really deep, almost philosophical outlook on life. It's a shame that I discovered him after he died, I think if we have a lot in common regarding how we see life. Overall, these lines, in my opinion, are supposed to represent the constant struggles throughout life. Elementary schoolers had to try and fake themselves so they could fit in with other people, middle schoolers going through stress and depression from being bullied, and the constant stress from schoolwork, especially in Asia (In fact, i'm in 7th grade myself, 13 years old, but I really enjoy dissecting things like Powapowa-Ps work), high schoolers, who have already changed their own core personalities, have to constantly adapt to others so they can be accepted by others, and finally, college students painting color onto their lungs by breathing in the lies and corruption of the "real" world, since they were always cared for and nurtured up until high school, and eventually becoming corrupted, or "tainted" themselves(You can also relate this as to why he killed himself, because he didn't want to grow up and become "tainted," instead of doing what he loved just for fun). Everybody can relate to this song because of what it's representing, some more than others. Edit: When he says "They can't tell one color from another anymore," I think this means that each individual's personalities have been so changed that we can't tell who they really are, and everyone tries to fit into this "perfect circle" of life that we create, we can hardly tell the difference from one person to the next.

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