Driving down the freeway with the radio tuned to a fairly good station, I didn't really pay attention to the lyrics being sung in one particular song until the second chorus. By then, the lyrics just struck me as profoundly stupid -- so profoundly stupid, I thought it worthy of a thread.
I know not the name of the song, nor the artist, nor do I care to find out. All that matters is the offending line that spurred the creation of this thread. That line is thus:
"Live like we're dying."
It's quite short. And so very infuriating. Allow me to elaborate on why such an innocuous line should stir me to such rage.
Let's take a moment to consider the full meaning of that line. "Live like we're dying." No doubt it's meant to tell the listener to make every moment last, to live every day as if it were the last day on earth, and so on. A powerful message that has been rendered to the status of 'quaint' and 'boring' by the constant use of it in songs of late.
I've no doubt that the person that wrote that song, and that one line, had nothing but good intentions and uplifting meaning flowing through their mind and into their pen.
But dear God, it's a poor choice of words.
'Live like we're dying.' Really. You know what dying people are like? They are comatose in a hospital bed, fighting to breathe through a yellowed tube because they're suffering from PPD (Packs Per Day) syndrome. Their lungs have literally been burned from the inside out.
Dying people are people with terminal cancer, their very body intruding on itself in some gross spur of ever-expanding flesh.
People are dying from terrible diseases like AIDS, Ebola, pneumonia, and others.
People who die also void their bowels (meaning they've defecated themselves) because the muscle has lost all tension.
Dying is anything but pretty, folks. But this song is telling us to go out and be like them! Be like the people who can't breathe on their own, who're suffering wasting diseases, and whose bodies have run amok!
"Live like we're dying."
Yeah, great game plan there, chap. Inspired, really it is! Pure genius!
-.- Go to hell, you ass.
P.S. Bitch about random songs that annoy you here. : )
I know not the name of the song, nor the artist, nor do I care to find out. All that matters is the offending line that spurred the creation of this thread. That line is thus:
"Live like we're dying."
It's quite short. And so very infuriating. Allow me to elaborate on why such an innocuous line should stir me to such rage.
Let's take a moment to consider the full meaning of that line. "Live like we're dying." No doubt it's meant to tell the listener to make every moment last, to live every day as if it were the last day on earth, and so on. A powerful message that has been rendered to the status of 'quaint' and 'boring' by the constant use of it in songs of late.
I've no doubt that the person that wrote that song, and that one line, had nothing but good intentions and uplifting meaning flowing through their mind and into their pen.
But dear God, it's a poor choice of words.
'Live like we're dying.' Really. You know what dying people are like? They are comatose in a hospital bed, fighting to breathe through a yellowed tube because they're suffering from PPD (Packs Per Day) syndrome. Their lungs have literally been burned from the inside out.
Dying people are people with terminal cancer, their very body intruding on itself in some gross spur of ever-expanding flesh.
People are dying from terrible diseases like AIDS, Ebola, pneumonia, and others.
People who die also void their bowels (meaning they've defecated themselves) because the muscle has lost all tension.
Dying is anything but pretty, folks. But this song is telling us to go out and be like them! Be like the people who can't breathe on their own, who're suffering wasting diseases, and whose bodies have run amok!
"Live like we're dying."
Yeah, great game plan there, chap. Inspired, really it is! Pure genius!
-.- Go to hell, you ass.
P.S. Bitch about random songs that annoy you here. : )
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I want him dead, please? 
