Views : 2,453,425
Genre: People & Blogs
Date of upload: Jun 17, 2016 ^^
Rating : 4.911 (583/25,530 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2022-04-09T21:26:09.779678Z
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what gets me every time is bo asking "on a scale from one to zero, are you happy?" in the first chorus. to him, happiness isn't a sliding scale, it's binary. you're either satisfied, or you aren't. and once you do reach 'one', if you ever do, the question changes to "on a scale from one to two now, are you happy?"
for most people, they never just get to be happy. it's never that easy. the scale's always moving up, the goalposts always move farther down the field. and it's really tiring. this song, man, goddamn.
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I think this is the song that came closest to being personal, and revealing actual information about Bo. A lot of his other sad songs criticise general themes in society, but the fact that he mentions his parents in this one, and there’s no punchline, it feels like he really did have issues with his parents and this song kinda half reveals that. But I think that’s intentional, he always said he didn’t want a close, cloying relationship with his fans, so it makes sense that he’d leave on this song, it’s like he got to indulge in a little bit of honest songwriting before he never did it again.
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"You're everything you hated, are you happy? Hey Ma look, I made it! Are you happy?" Those two lines gives me a sad visual. Imagine, youre sloshing through life, trying to do everything you can. And at the end of your journey your realize, I became everything i hated... But It was to help my family, to make them happy, to help them survive... Now imagine after that seeing your mother, you looking like you had just been stabbed it the gut, keeled over, you look up at you mom. "Hey Ma, look I made it, are you happy?" I took it more as "Hey Ma, look I made it, Are you proud?"
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That makes me feel a bit better.
Because the scales get to me
Sometimes depression traps you to a point where you can't reach anything above 5.
You're stuck at 1-0 (there's no one point ahead or a point behind.)
Utter emptiness. But, fighting it and saving yourself, you'll see change
The only 1 changes to 1-2
Which makes me believe it'll keep going until its 10, and you have the ability to feel, just like everyone else
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@faith9196
3 years ago
“You’re everything you hated, are you happy?” Damn.
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