Deadheads

Everyone, usually, has a gripe of their own. People everyday are annoyed by things they dislike, such as war, drugs or terrible tasting food. My gripe is materialism, along with people that become so obsessed with pleasing themselves that they lose track of what's right. Along with this dislike, I also hate it when teachers don't do their jobs and when adults mislead their young-ones. I equally detest though, when people see these things occuring and do nothing to prevent them.
This brings me to my point, which is going through a detailed analysis of a song I wrote and recorded for a school project. I personally love going online and researching the origins of songs and find out what inspired them. So due to the obscure nature of my song I'll try to explain what I was thinking when I wrote it. (it was originally a love song, haha). While I did write out a solid draft of lyrics for my song, much of it ended up being inextricably changed during the recording process. Below I will write the lyrics to my song, then below that I will re-write them with a detailed explanation of each verse.
To give a general idea of what the song is about, it is about my highschool experience, what I like, and what I don't.

Yesterday I woke
To find that I was broke
I realized I'd smoked my life

(this verse primarily serves as the start of the song by talking about the start of the day. Here I was trying to convey the feeling of waking up and realizing that you have nothing of substance because you've been wasting time with whatever holds your fancy, and haven't been focusing on proper things. For example, people (and everyone at my school) that live for the moment, smoking pot and other fleshly activities wake up to this feeling, along with anyone that isn't really blessed.

And now I'm kickin' back
onna correct track
i'm sick of being mucky and rife

(this verse is about kicking addiction of whatever it is you're addicted to in search of something better)

Well hello there little miss maybe
Are you back to scare us and your baby?
What's the matter? Get up and live.
Is it really that hard to forgive?

(Here I was speaking of individuals that are too obsessed with knowing what other people think, which prevents them for making any independent decisions. It then proceeds to ask the question of "why the heck don't you get up and clean up your act?!")

Come On, get up
out of our zones
what's the worst that can happen?
we're all sick filthy drones

(here I prompt getting up out of your own little world and doing something with anything. So often I see people just zoning out to their ipod, merely looking forward to their next chance to get high, drunk or laid. I think the image of something ignoring others and listening to their ipod is probably the most vivid depiction of a modern day prison that can illustrate. Everyone is too willing to do what they want and not bother with real life. The "what's the worst that can happen" line is one of my life slogans. Whenever I say that, I partially mean that a risk is worth taking, and I also partially try to show the immaturity in doing taking such risks in recognizing that it's risky.)

I heard you heard I heard
that I killed a bird
you beat me
but doll, that's a lie

(this is directed towards the flagarant and false accusations that have buzzed around my school and life. You should always know the truth before you can deal out judgement.)

There's a rumor floatin' through
that I love you
I'd be lyin' if I said that's a lie

(I thought this was cute. I think It conveys the sense of boppy happieness that I like to express.)

You Shouldn't Be Sad
Silly Thing
Such a Shame
Londons Burning

(this verse has a double meaning. This is a depiction of my efforts to cheer people up, while also granting some sympathy to the matter at hand. Also, all the lyrics here are built out of songs by my favorite and most influential bands.

You Shouldin't Be Sad by the Kinks
Silly Thing by the Sex Pistols
Such a Shame by the Kinks
and London's Burning by the Clash)

at this point in the song all the lyrics where just things I was rambling with and don't really mean anything specific.

Things Teachers Should Know
(this was the headline of a poster in a class where I took the WASL. On it was written a list of things "teachers should know" in order to be good teachers. there was however NO WHERE written on the poster anything about actually caring about your students and their education, which I think is the biggest thing a teacher should know and do, otherwise you simply can't teach).

How's that for harmless?!
(this is sort of the endling line of the song. After reviewing what the life of someone that only cares about themselves is like, then hopefully you'll see that it is NOT a harmless lifestyle. "How's that for harmless" was also written as the ending "umph" punch-line on a "don't smoke marijuana while driving" poster in the same WASL classroom I was in. This line was at the end of the poster after listing a list of facts about driving accidents that occured while people were pepped up on pot. The poster simply seemed to me to be a personification of every single poster like it that i've seen. It was rash, brash and unconvincing, and the way it was presented I sadly doubt it will help anyone.)

I just wanna go
why'd they disarm us?
(I adlibbed this. who knows what it means. if I had to make a guess as too what it meant it's talking about leaving school because they don't help (i'm not talking about all school, just certain school's who's teachers don't give a flying flip about their students) and the second line is about taking student's (or just the younger generation's) guts away by leaving them with nothing but ipods to zone out to.)

The last raint thing I say in the "song" is "deadheads" which is what I think too many are turning into.