False Start
Navigating Existential Crossroads: Bikini Kill's 'False Start'
Lyrics
On a point in time-present undefined
Reflecting on an undefined moment in the present
And it's getting cold outside
Noting the onset of cold weather
Situation statical-for reasons you don't know
Describing a static situation with unknown reasons
Just short of indecision
Expressing a state just short of making a decision
And it's getting cold outside
Reiterating the cold weather outside
And it's getting cold outside
Repetition for emphasis
For you own trepidation
Encouraging self-reflection and caution
Refer to new perspexion
Suggesting a reference to a new perspective
See yourself as others see you
Encouraging self-awareness through others' perceptions
in reverse red can appear blue
Highlighting the perception shift in reverse
wanna go outside
Expressing a desire to go outside
Don't you wanna go outside
Repeating the desire to go outside for emphasis
Been stuck inside your room
Feeling trapped and doomed indoors
so stranded-like and full of doom
Emphasizing a sense of being stranded
all year
Noting the duration of feeling trapped—possibly a year
Time out for good behavior
Referencing a break for good behavior
adds up to what you want it to
Suggesting that outcomes depend on one's desires
what you wanna, what you
Repeating the question of personal desires
wanna do.
Asking what the listener wants to do
What informs a motivation-
Raising the question of motivation—casual or obligatory
casual or obligation-factitious circumstance
Referring to circumstances that may be false or insincere
suspending all your future plans
Suggesting a suspension of future plans due to uncertainty
wait for you outside.
Expressing a willingness to wait outside
If this false started motion
Introducing the concept of a false start in motion
believes its own propulsion
Suggesting that the false start believes in its own momentum
tran-sending space and time,
Transcending space and time in a hypothetical sense
then I'll wait for you outside
Reiterating the willingness to wait outside
then I'll wait for you outside
Repetition for emphasis on waiting outside
Been so long since I've seen you
Expressing the passage of a long time without seeing someone
so much has changed, you sound the same
Noting changes over time but a consistent sound
We're meeting at this place I wanna see you,
Anticipating a reunion at a specific location
see your face again
Expressing a desire to see the person's face again
We're all waiting, we're all waiting here.
Highlighting the collective waiting for something
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