The overwhelming futility of life.

>>74836550
My negro.

DOWN ON SKID ROW

>>74836664
Huh... Played bass for LSoH in a high school show. I don't remember that song. Not even close though.

>>74836550

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZcH2OOMV4A

>>74836743
Not bad, but not that sad. More bitter/cynical.

>>74836781
>bitter/cynical.

what a terrible interpretation

>>74836792
He's just saying how shit the world is for him. How do you see it?

>>74836818
I see it exactly like this:


'The song is serious, and it is sad, but it reveals a self-knowledge and depth of hard-gained wisdom that make it ultimately a statement of strength in the face of the crushing depths of depression. In fact, the song seems to inhabit a world beyond depression, a realm of pure abstraction, or of “nothing.” When Townes sings “I stood there like a block of stone,” with simple, finger-picked guitar accompaniment, in a brooding minor key, “Knowin’ all that I had to know/And nothin’ more/And man, that’s nothin’,” it’s clear that we’re being taken someplace unusual, someplace where we’ll have to drop our preconceptions and follow our guide closely, because we won’t want to risk getting lost.
“Being born is going blind/And bowing down a thousand times/To echoes strung on pure temptation”—this takes us outside the everyday experience of life and leaves us wondering how much further we can go; “Sorrow and solitude/ These are the precious things/And the only words that are worth remembering”—this tells us something we didn’t know, and aren’t sure we want to know, or are ready to know. The song leaves us with what seems like the memory of a vivid experience, and with a knowledge and understanding of something we might have known but couldn’t have expressed, and perhaps with a new way of looking at the world. We’re exhilarated, possibly somewhat frightened, and exhausted.'

>>74836878
>We’re exhilarated, possibly somewhat frightened, and exhausted.
And not at all sad. Got it.

>>74836550
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbcZstt8ACY

>>74837057
>Black comedy.