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Honor’s is mentioning things that he considers priceless, like the overwhelming love a parent has for a child, or the deep sense of comfort that comes from finding your purpose in life. These are the things that are important in life, and things money cannot buy.

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In this song, Slug uses Mother Nature as a metaphor for a woman he’s in a relationship with. Like the explorer navigating the uncharted territories of mother earth, Slug is trying to navigate the territories of an unstable female mind.

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Pun on the word ‘daily’ and Slug’s real name, Sean Daley.

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Joe Clark was a high school principal in one of New Jersey’s toughest inner city schools. He was played by Morgan Freeman in 1989 biopic Lean on Me.

Honors is saying how his ideological parents were people like Rosa Parks, who chose to fight the system in her own way, and Joe Clark, who educated rough, inner city kids in Honor’s hometown of NJ.

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the black community been trapped in the ghetto for so long, and people still think its a cool lifestyle to be living

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Inhale/in hell. Its hard to breathe when you’re in hell, i.e. the ghetto

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Honors wears “retro” specs like these

Also, a clever play on the word “retrospect”, the contemplation of the past, which is where the style of his specs is from

He feels disoriented when thinking back to all the bad times in his past

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Honor’s is saying that he takes the pain he feels inside and uses it as motivation, or ‘fuel’, to help him to keep going and make that fire

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Honors is critiquing how people follow trends, ‘drowning’ their own sense of self in the process.

  • Society is so obsessed with appearance that people undertake plastic surgery that takes away the natural beauty of who they are.

  • Society tells us that material wealth and physical perfection are things that are to be valued, and when people cant measure up to these levels of perfection they feel devalued as a person.

But in the end, its all lie, and no matter how expensive and pretty that lie is, it cant even begin to compete with the truth.

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Reference to 2010 Documentary ‘Inside Job’ which showed the level of corruption and greed in wall street banking that led to the 2008 financial crash. Honors is saying that real success is an ‘inside job’ i.e, comes from within. Honors doesn’t see the material wealth of wall street bankers as real wealth, but is saying that the most important ‘riches’ in life are to be found inside oneself.

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