It´s Not Simple Versus Complex
How R U? Ah, U R. How M I? Ah, I M. Ah baby, we´re very, very fragile, much more fragile than we realize COMPLICATED. U like going to WallSmart, want anything? N I M like yeah, everything, I want you!
Uh huh, life's like this.
Uh huh, uh huh, that's the way it is.
'Cause life's like this.
Uh huh, uh huh, that's the way it is.
Excuse the a bit-off-the-rails mannerisms of your significant other. ´Cause even when we are alone either in public or in ultra private nothing is all good. And please don´t be confused, you know the problems that arise when you pretend to be something you're not. All you need is me, your simple asshat, it makes you even more elegant. You´re my knockout, baby, you´re sending me flying to the floor, to scramble for fresh metaphors. All you need is just to chill, relax, and enjoy life with me, loving me.
Be contented and thankful for all you have now. You just really need to be positive. though sometimes it´s hard or impossible, and be yourself all the time.
Just love yourself for who you are instead of thinking that someone else is better than you. Be yourself wherever you are and don't complain for not being like someone who is better than you. ´Cause you won't be able to enjoy yourself when you are pretending, you´ll just make your mind and life so fucking complicated after ups and downs that are the result of faking.
Like a really sick parody describing extremely graphically unusual situations involving eating too much cheesy pizza, marrying a cousin, and getting your head knocked off by a roller coaster, which makes one sing in the bathroom almost snatching a Grammy …
Why'd you have to go and make me so constipated
'Cause right now I'd do anything to just get my bowels evacuated
Capture the beautiful grimace on your face for me, for our eternity, please …
Want me? Get me! Get me like a skateboard, ride me. With me, you'll just prefer to be yourself the whole time. We´ll crash malls incognito while they are open for business, drawing no attention from the shoppers ´cause we´re only Subtract stars, ´cause we´re unknown, complete nobodies. Remember? I was an incomplete mess, baby, and you´ve completed me. Shed your preppy clothes, here are my crappy clothes, or just stay naked like me. Physically, emotionally, spiritually. Truly, madly, deeply. ´Cause I´m your fucking Adam and you´re my fucking Eve. Well, that fits the best and most meaningful Substack out there - Epiphany Beyond A Biblical Scale.
Uh huh, life's like this
Uh huh, uh huh, that's the way it is
'Cause life's like this
Uh huh, uh huh, that's the way it is
Chill out, what ya yellin' for?
Lay back, it's all been done before
And if, you could only let it be, you will see
I like you the way you are
When we're driving in your car
And you're talking to me one on one, but you become
Somebody else
'Round everyone else
You're watching your back
Like you can't relax
You try to be cool
You look like a fool to me
Tell me
Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?
I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else
Gets me frustrated
Life's like this, you
And you fall, and you crawl, and you break
And you take what you get, and you turn it into
Honesty and promise me I'm never gonna find you faking
No, no, no
You come over unannounced
Dressed up like you're somethin' else
Where you are and where it's at you see
You're making me
Laugh out when you strike your pose
Take off all your preppy clothes
You know you're not fooling anyone
When you become
Somebody else
'Round everyone else
You're watching your back
Like you can't relax
You try to be cool
You look like a fool to me
Tell me
Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?
I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else
Gets me frustrated
Life's like this, you
And you fall, and you crawl, and you break
And you take what you get, and you turn it into
Honesty and promise me I'm never gonna find you faking
No, no, no
No, no, no
No, no, no
No, no, no
No, no, no (no, no)
Chill out, what ya yellin' for?
Lay back, it's all been done before
And if you could only let it be
You will see
Somebody else
'Round everyone else
You're watching your back
Like you can't relax
You try to be cool
You look like a fool to me
Tell me
Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?
I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else
Gets me frustrated
Life's like this, you
And you fall, and you crawl, and you break
And you take what you get, and you turn it into
Honesty and promise me I'm never gonna find you faking
No, no
Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?
I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else
Gets me frustrated
Life's like this, you
And you fall, and you crawl, and you break
And you take what you get, and you turn it into
Honesty and promise me I'm never gonna find you faking
No, no, no
But yeah, the cool song´s basically about life, people being fake, and relationships, outlining people's changing identity and personality around different people in its lyrics, expressing the protagonist's frustration towards her partner's behavior of pretending to be someone else in public. The slogan or chorus “Many of us are not true to ourselves because we doubt if the society will accept us.” has been kissing my sweet ass goodbye since times immemorial. I've been losing sleep thinking about yours, whoops, you know what I mean. This is my cool, not coolest, LOL, reaction to the artificial nature of modern society.
Modern societies are increasingly characterized by their complexity. There´s been a wide growth of consumer products. And this growth´s made modern society first and foremost a consumer society. Consumerism leads to a variety of lifestyles. In this process, traditions get weakened. Modern society is considered bullshit, which has a complex and sophishstickated culture changing with the time. So, what´s wrong with our modern society? Nonetheless, see, lost primitives can still be found. You´ve found me, baby. Thank you.
How R U? Ah, U R. How M I? Ah, I M. Ah baby, we´re very, very fragile, much more fragile than we realize COMPLICATED. U like going to Wallmart, want anything? N I M like yeah, everything, I want you!
Uh huh, life's like this.
Uh huh, uh huh, that's the way it is.
'Cause life's like this.
Uh huh, uh huh, that's the way it is.
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ALL MY EFFORTS:
Complexity is good, many layers; Complication, not so much so, as it involves much mis-communication, things that can not be easily solved. Noise, White Noise, the Background Static, is a Problem--possibly "The" problem. I would not necessarily recommend Don DeLillo's 1985 novel "White Noise," but it is an interesting take on the modern condition, and the East Palestine, Ohio toxic train wreck does add some further, real world, relevance to that fiction...