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Jonny 5 claims to take rap to a level that can’t technically exist in music theory as we know it.

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Earlier generations could just pick up a wife off the shelf and stay married until they both died or one murdered the other.
These days, things feel more complicated, with the divorce rate rising, and the concept of marriage becoming less and less concrete.

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Each verse contains allusions to lyrics of the original song that appear in the hook.

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The intro, outtro, hooks, and beat all contain samples from The Turtles' Happy Together.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTvhWVTwRnM

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‘Be as you were’ is a common order in the military, meaning to be at ease, or to relax.
Jonny is telling the subject of the song that it is okay for them to be themselves around him, he’s not looking to be impressed.

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According to its legend, Atlantis was an island nation

According to globalization theory, the world is becoming more like an island socioeconomically, as instead of many isolated economies with limited interaction, we have one global economy and no way to expand past it.

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This song is poetically fascinating. Many of the lyrics can be interpreted in two contexts:

1) A narrative about the destruction of the mythical city of Atlantis as it sunk below the ocean in a “single day and night of misfortune”

2) An allegory for the fall of the world order as it currently stands, with global warming and rising sea levels the agent of change

In both contexts, the masses of average people manage to band together and save themselves while corporations, altars, and other outdated institutions sink below the waves forever.

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Here, sirens can mean either those on emergency response vehicles or the sirens of Greek mythology that would lure sailors to death on rocky shores with their singing.

So “wails of the sirens” could describe a major disaster with fire trucks, ambulances, and police cars responding, or it could be that come cataclysm has occurred that makes even the mythological sirens wail in distress.

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Yellowcake is a naturally-occurring form of non-enriched uranium.
With the right processes, it can be processed to produce Uranium-235, which is the isotope that can be used in either nuclear power plants or atomic weapons.

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Lockheed Martin is a major defense contractor, and Star Wars was the code name given to a plan to build a missile defense system that could shoot down ICBMS using lasers from space.
Of course, it was a Reagan administration plan.

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