Lyrics
Hey kid, what do you know?
Questioning the listener's knowledge or experience.
Black clouds and a microscope
Reference to difficulties or challenges (black clouds) observed closely (microscope).
A microscope, what do you see?
Raising the question of what is visible under scrutiny.
I see the people laughing at me
Perceiving others mocking or ridiculing the speaker.
Laugh and sneer and roll their eyes
Describing the frequent occurrence of laughter, mockery, and disdain.
It happens more than you realize
Highlighting that the negative reactions are more common than acknowledged.
Can't escape can't ascend
Expressing a feeling of being trapped or unable to rise above the situation.
Trade up for the play-pretend
Suggesting a willingness to exchange reality for a make-believe world.
Lesson learned, never again
Reflecting on a past experience and vowing not to repeat it.
Idiot kid, you let them in
Self-criticism for allowing negative influences into one's life.
Keep 'em out, keep 'em away
Advocating for keeping negative influences away.
Sulking while they congregate
Feeling isolated while others gather socially.
Congregation, what a joke
Criticizing social gatherings as superficial or insincere.
I heard it's for the common folk
Suggesting that social gatherings are for ordinary people.
Conversation amateur
Dismissing conversation as unskilled or unrefined.
All I know is caricature
Summing up knowledge as mere caricature, possibly implying superficial understanding.
All I know is caricature
Reiteration of the theme, emphasizing a limited or distorted understanding.
All I know is caricature
Continued emphasis on the idea of knowledge as caricature.
All I know is caricature
Repeating the notion that understanding is reduced to caricature.
All I know is caricature
Final repetition, driving home the idea that the speaker's knowledge is superficial or distorted.
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