by JackRiddler » Thu Oct 03, 2013 1:25 pm
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It's not working.
Wait, is it because I'm already crazy?
Which reminds me, long as we're on S&G. A phrase like "Still crazy after all these years" transports some questionable assumptions, don't you think? Like you're supposed to get less crazy as you get older? You might, in the bourgeois sense of conforming better to the expectations on "adults" during the period of middle age, as opposed to the "craziness" (usually meaning wild good times) of youth. Which I guess is what the song is about.
However, the eventual outcome for almost all people -- assuming a life is not interrupted by premature death but runs its course toward a natural demise -- is that you start losing your mind, and become crazy (or crazier). This can be a process of decades, during which one might display a respectable facade and may even stay in charge of things, like our largely gerontocratic ruling figures. Or it can happen within a few years or months. But it happens in almost everyone, normally long before they hit 90, let alone 100.
So really the song should be, "Predictably crazier than before, after all these years, worn down and feeling my faculties gradually stripped away as I lose more and more of I and eventually melt in stages or very suddenly into the inevitable oblivion that is our universal lot; said mental-emotional state perhaps tempered by the false hope of a worthy afterlife."
Don't you think?
Can we make it catchier? It could be a hit!
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JackRiddler on Fri Oct 04, 2013 9:55 am, edited 1 time in total.
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