Pride
Dance with Pride: Unmasking the Balloon of Vanity
Lyrics
What would you do if I pricked your balloon?
Asking how someone would react if their ego or self-importance was challenged or deflated.
Would you burst into tears and run to your room?
Questioning whether the person would react emotionally, crying, and seeking solace.
Or say it's just once in a very blue moon
Suggesting that the situation might be rare or infrequent.
Would you be aware you were leaking air?
Wondering if the person would recognize their own flaws or vulnerabilities.
Would you know some bitch of a witch somewhere?
Speculating about someone else causing distress or trouble for the person.
Who's sticking pins in you, pins in you?L
Implies someone actively causing harm or distress to the individual.
Pride won't let you walk away
Suggests that pride prevents one from walking away from a situation without a fight.
Without blood on your fists
Implies that leaving without a conflict would be against the nature of pride.
Pride won't let you walk away
Stating that pride won't allow departure until certain objectives are accomplished.
'Til you've ticked off your list
Implies a need to fulfill a list of tasks or goals to satisfy one's pride.
Come on baby, strut your stuff
Encouragement to display confidence and strength.
[?] 'cause you're tough enough
It's unclear.
'Til pride is satisfied and we can all go home
Suggests that pride needs to be appeased or satisfied for closure.
When you're [?] like you it's hard to be humble
Describes the difficulty of being humble when one possesses certain qualities.
You never think twice, you never stumble
Highlights a lack of hesitation or uncertainty due to confidence.
The seeds of doubt, they never rumble
Indicates that doubts or uncertainties never disturb the confident individual.
Vanity! Vanity! All is vanity!
Quoting "Vanity! Vanity! All is vanity!" from Ecclesiastes, suggesting the futility of excessive pride.
Do you feel something for the rest of humanity?
Asking whether the person feels any connection or empathy toward others.
We can't live up to you, up to you, up to you
Suggesting that others cannot match up to the individual's standards.
Pride won't let you walk away
Reiterating that pride doesn't allow departure without confrontation.
Without blood on your fists
Emphasizing that leaving without a fight contradicts the nature of pride.
Pride won't let you walk away
Restating that pride demands certain accomplishments or objectives before departing.
'Til you've ticked off your list
Continuing the idea of needing to fulfill a list of tasks or goals to satisfy pride.
You look so majestic standing there
Complimenting the majestic appearance of the person.
With the playful breeze blowing in your hair
Describing a picturesque scene with the person's hair blowing in the breeze.
'Til pride is satisfied and we can all go home
Reiterating the need to satisfy pride for closure.
Show 'em what's wrong, show 'em how to do it
Encouraging the person to demonstrate what's wrong and how to fix it.
They fluffed it, they muffed it, they scuffed it, they blew it
Criticizing others for their failures or mistakes.
The spanner's in the works and you know who threw it
Suggesting someone deliberately disrupted things.
A coupon short of a toaster there
Describing someone as being slightly deficient or eccentric.
Will you use your wit or your famous stare
Asking how the person would respond to the situation, using intelligence or intimidation.
To write the symphony, infamy, infamy?
Suggesting the creation of something remarkable or notorious.
Pride won't let you walk away
Reiterating that pride demands confrontation before departure.
Without blood on your fists
Stating that leaving without a fight goes against the nature of pride.
Pride won't let you walk away
Continuing the idea of needing to fulfill tasks or goals before departing.
'Til you've ticked off your list
Emphasizing the need to satisfy pride's requirements.
Come on baby, strut your stuff
Encouragement to display confidence and strength, similar to line 12.
[?] 'cause you're tough enough
It's unclear.
'Til pride is satisfied and we can all go home
Reiterating the necessity of satisfying pride for closure.
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