Tear Jerker / The Shins

• New Slang. Taken from the SongMeanings user StarClaire: "...this is what it feels like to be stuck forever in a small, dull town, bored to tears, and you resort to thoughts of lost love... ("a curse for this town") ...and the bitterness and anger is somehow toned down to a jaded apathy because what use is it to be angry? You curse everyone and everything you see ("all the bakers at dawn, may they all cut their thumbs and bleed into their buns till' they melt away") and the days pass and you don't even seem to notice, and you think your life could have been so much more if that one person had just stayed... ("If you'd a took to me like a gull takes to the wind") And your self-esteem is gone entirely ("king of the eyesores," "too dumb to refine") and you reach your breaking point and you tell this person... five seconds later you realize you shouldn't have. ("Never should have called, but my head's to the wall and I'm lonely.") Talking to the person now, you realize they're happy, they're doing well, and here you are. ("I'm looking in on the good life I might be doomed never to find.")
• Also: "Pink Bullets", "Gone for Good", "The Past and Pending", and "A Comet Appears".

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