Give Up Your Day Job
Rebel Youth Awakening: Embrace the Grief Trail Home
Lyrics
When I came out of my mother's womb
Reflecting on birth and entry into the world.
They put a sticker on my head that said
Symbolic labeling of identity with negative stereotypes.
Roman-catholic-white-trash-piece-of-garbage isn't going
Expression of societal judgment and prejudice.
Anywhere
Sense of limitation and lack of potential.
I believed them for a while
Initial acceptance followed by doubt and skepticism.
But then I started getting all these anti-messages from my
Conflicting messages received from the subconscious mind.
Psyche
Reference to inner psychological struggles.
This is a message to all the youth of 1998
Addressing the younger generation in the context of 1998.
Give up your day job
Encouragement to abandon conventional employment.
And follow the grief trail home
Suggesting a path involving facing and embracing grief.
Follow the grief trail home
Reiteration of the call to follow the "grief trail."
If you're sixteen years old with final exams
Addressing the pressures faced by a sixteen-year-old.
Society's got you by the balls
Highlighting societal control and influence on youth.
You can learn that grown up stuff in your 40's if you want
Delaying the acquisition of adult knowledge and responsibilities.
To
Emphasizing the option to learn later in life.
Take no heed what teacher says
Encouraging skepticism toward traditional education.
They're teaching you the garbage that I learned some years
Discrediting the value of certain teachings.
Ago
Personal experience influencing the perspective on education.
Children has society got you by the scruff of the neck
Addressing societal influence on children's behavior.
Have they got you all pumped up on prozac
Raising awareness of reliance on medication (Prozac).
Has the government got you thinking that they really care
Critiquing government's claim of genuine concern for individuals.
About you
Questioning the sincerity of governmental care.
Have you stopped listening to your own inner voice
Encouraging self-reflection and trust in inner instincts.
By watching all that disaster TV
Warning against excessive exposure to distressing media.
Well I have a message for you, well I have a message for you
Reiteration of having a message for the listener.
Amen
Religious affirmation and agreement with the message.
Tune in, turn on and smash it all up, because nothing really
Advocating for rebellion and breaking societal norms.
Matters
Assertion that nothing truly matters as perceived.
Like you think it does anyway
Undermining conventional beliefs about significance.
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