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Just because you're paranoid
Don't mean they're not after you Nirvana – Territorial Pissings
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Cobain uses this Joseph Heller quote to fuck with your mind. He plays on the notion that paranoia doesn’t necessarily have to be just that.

What if they really are out to get you? Huh?! Huh!?!? Some sort of uber-paranoia.

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Kurt uses the Catch-22 quote to express the narrator’s conflicted notions of reality, while at the same time justifying his urgency to try and solve his (likely) manic delusions reflected in the chorus.

Ironic humor as always from Kurt, as he uses repackaged wisdom from Joseph Heller, after claiming to have “never met a wise man” in the previous verse.

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Well yeah…a person can be hyper vigilant for no apparent reason and people can be after you for reasons that you’re not aware of. When you’re successful people often want things from you, maybe they just want to be associated with you to get a little fame or they want some of your money. And it’s good to be aware of this but sometimes it can turn into an obsession and an exaggerated fear which is an overreaction that really affects your life and mental health.

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Matt Animal Collective – Brother Sport
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His brother’s name, presumably.

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Fake MCs, they always act hard
But won't walk the streets without their bodyguard
I hate fake MCs, they always act hard
But won't walk the streets without their bodyguard Gang Starr – Suckas Need Bodyguards
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Studio gangsters who are just tough in the booth but once they touch the streets they need somebody to protect them.

Granted with the amount of money these dudes have been pullin in, hiring a bodyguard has become a necessity in some cases.

Here, Eminem defends the need for a body guard based on his fame and calls out the caller outers.

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All the other women they get treat so rude
Cry, cry, cause you make them blue Wild Belle – Keep You
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I’m not the only one you are doing this to! You hurt every woman in town. He seems like a “manwhore”.

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“All the other women THAT YOU treat so rude”

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Maybe me, maybe not
Stick around, you'll learn alot Kilo Kish – Navy
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Maybe me, Maybe not refers to the question she asked in the previous line Do you know how stars taste?

She’s playing with him, insinuating that she’s a star, but keeping the interpretation open to butter him up at the same time so he doesn’t feel like she’s unattainable.

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change “alot” to “a lot”

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He touch the kinks and sinks into the sounds Digable Planets – Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
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The kinks he refers to could be his roots (kinky hair), which represents Afrocentrism – and that he is touching upon those roots in the music.

Kinky/natural hair, as well as hair in general, is a common image that comes up in Digable’s music – used to represent Afrocentrism.

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Kinks might refer the surface of a record…. as in the grooves that produce the sound. He touches the kinks, he feels the music and sinks.

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I been sleepin' for 40 days and
I know I'm sleeping 'cause this dream’s too amazin' Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – 40 Day Dream
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The forty day dream is an analogy for the perfect relationship he’s in. It’s been so perfect it seems like an impossible fantasy.

Also, in the greek tradition its popular to believe the soul lingers for 40 days after death. This could mean that Alex has been sleeping for 40 days (been dead for 40 days) which then leads to the rest of the song…

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Do you have a source for the Greek tradition part of your analysis?

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Everything is divided
Nothing is complete
Everything looks impressive
Do not be deceived Talking Heads – Making Flippy Floppy
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Although the world seems integrated, wholesome, and magnificent this is truly a facade for the corrupt, segregated world we live in. Things are not necessarily what they seem…

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This is a reference to Guy Debord’s Society of The Spectacle

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Help me inhale Nirvana – Dumb
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Show glue is inhaled in bags typically by street kids in poor countries. There have been numerous documentaries, which delve into the epidemic of streets kids becoming addicted to inhaling glue. Like this one:

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Sail AWOLNATION – Sail
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As suggested before, he feels like he can’t change, so he is letting go into his addiction (or emotional withdrawal), continues to move forward through life, just going with the flow and letting life happen to him. The song’s protagonist is wanting to “sail” away from his problems

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one of the interpretations based on Aaron’s passion for surfing, is that the verses are the problems with wich the subject is facing and the chorus is the solution. The sailing is the time where all the troubles can not reach into you

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It’s about his lack of control due to ADD

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I’d suggest something in addition. Being a Sailor, you may rely on the wind, but you can also kind of control the direction of the boat. You can’t get rid off ADD. But you can do your best to deal with it and maybe even use it.
Yes, it is about going with the flow, but I think it’s also about realizing you still have some control.

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