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  1. thedanowens
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     Aug 11th 2011 !⃝

    This is my attempt at a direct interpretation of daylight. I don't even know if the lyrics are correct so...anyways. I tried to break it down though by though. I think the song as a whole is about being yourself, not following the mainstream version of the american dream or trying to copy someone else and live your own ideas.

    yo...
    Put one up for shackle-me not clean logic procreation
    celebrate the proliferation/creation of free thinking freedom & truth

    I did not invent the wheel, I was the crooked spoke adjacent
    I am not the creator, I am a failed prototype

    While the triple-sixers' lassos keep angels roped in the basement
    I walk the block with a halo and a stick pokin' your patience.
    While evil is everywhere and has good suppressed I am as good as I can be and it pisses you off or I walk around talking about religion and of course that makes you mad when all you see is evil.

    Y'all catch a 30 second flash visual
    Dirty cooperative med platoon, bloom, head-trip split ridiculous
    Fathom the splicing of first generation fuck-up with trickle-down anti-hero smack--
    Crackin'!
    (I have no idea) life is short, it’s a battle & a trip, your friends are there to help but think about how the fuck ups of those that came before us affect our life view

    I pace me game for zero hour completion greetin' splash
    I live relaxed and get everything done at the last minute

    Duke of early retirement, pick a dream, American nightmare hoggin' the screen
    --I'll hold the door open so you can stumble in
    If you'd stop followin' me 'round the jungle gym.
    If you live your dream, it’s like you never worked a day in your life so (early retirement) but good luck because the American dream is everywhere, shoved down your throat and it’s been corrupted into a nightmare. I will lead you to a place where that is not the case but you can’t get there by trying to copy me or someone else, you must be yourself.

    Now it's Honor and I spell it with the H I stole from Heritage
    Merit crutch stolen wretched refuse of my teaming resonance
    We think we have done the right thing and respect our forefathers but they stole that respect from those that came before them. We use our values as a crutch to ignore whats left of the rotting truth that we stole our position but it echos in our minds.

    I promise: temperance towards breed with a leaning conscious
    See, the creed acts sense responsive, but my sports supports the wattage, and I'm sleeping now! (Wow!)
    America has promised not to be racist, to be kind to other human beings and think about others at least on paper it looks that way but the games we play say otherwise and we ignore it.


    Yeah, the settlers laugh,
    You won't be laughing when your covered wagons crash!
    You won't be laughing when the buzzards drag your brother's flags into rags!
    You won't be laughing when your front lawn is spangled with epitaphs! You won't be laughing!
    We laugh about it, take it lightly but we won’t when it all comes crashing down around us and we have to live like the rest of the world.

    And I'll hang my boots to rest when I'm impressed
    So I triple knot 'em and forgot 'em.
    Self explanatory, he is not impressed.

    This origami dream is beautiful, but man, those wings'll never leave the ground without a feather and a lottery ticket,
    Now settle down.
    It all looks good on paper but it will never happen unless we put our resources towards it and that is not likely so don’t freak out.

    All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day,
    put the pieces back together my way,
    All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day,
    put the pieces back together my way. (2x)
    All he ever wanted was to take the past and make it something that he wants.

    (Yes, yes, y'all, and ya don't stop, keep on, to the break of dawn) (4x)

    --Slacker bounded intimate tabloid headline with a pulse
    Shimmy cross the centerfold, and a dead time engulfed, divvy crumbs for the better souls
    With seven deadly stains, adhere the blame to crystal conscience,
    The result's a low life counting on one hand what he's accomplished.
    We are not motivated, we are a walking tabloid, celebrity obsessed all thinking we are stars and give very little to the poor. We live all 7 of the deadly sins and blame the it on the fact that we don’t feel bad about it. The result is that we do not achieve much.

    Ok, link me to activism chain, activate street sweep
    Plug deteriorating xenobit Pendragon
    Ok, lets do something about this, let’s get involved and clean this place up. Lets stop the failings of our leaders we never see.

    I hock swords cores for the morbid spreading of mad men (Alley gospel)
    I offer the basics of a weapon to combat the dark tide of madness (don’t believe the mad men)



    Sinking yer Lincoln-Log cabin and Charlie Chaplin waddle
    --I could zig zag and zig 'em again for the badge dream sparkle in my brick wall windows Another thick installment of one night in Gotham without the wretched "Houston we have a problem
    --Attached to the festive batch of city goblins"
    Who split holiday freak on a box-cut cinema high road bellow
    Head gripped! Watch red bricks turn yellow
    They are destroying your dream and freedom of expression – but I can keep at it all day for this dream inside my head. Every day is tough in the city of decay but I don’t have a problem with the people of the city who like to have a good time and dance in the street and talk about doing the right thing. It’s a revelaton, watch what used to be streets paved in blood become a road to where you want to be.



    Sort of similar to most backbones at camp Icarus
    Raw feelings start congregating at pamper for bickering
    Life's not a bitch! Life is a beautiful woman
    You only call her a bitch because she won't let you get that pussy.
    Maybe she didn't feel y'all shared any similar interests
    Or maybe you're just an asshole who couldn't sweet talk the princess.
    It’s like our failures bring us together to complain like babies but life it’s hard, life is beautiful. You only think it’s hard because you don’t know how to live, you are going against nature or maybe you’re just an asshole.

    Kiss the speaker wire; Peter Pacifism pagan thresh hold
    Stomach full of halo kibbles
    Wings span cast black upon vigils
    Here to duck hunt ticker tape vision and pick apart the pixels
    I love the source of creation, I’m just a regular peaceful guy and I’ve reached my limit with your gods, I’m full of good and I don’t need them casting shadows on what I love, kill what I love or break down my every action.

    I got a friend of polar nature, and it's all peace
    You and I seek similar stars but can't sit at the same feast
    (Metal Captain) This cat is asking if I've seen his little lost passion
    I told him yeah, but only when I pedaled past him.
    I have a friend who is the opposite of me but we still get along, were trying to get to the same place but cannot take the same path. (metal captain is awesome but idk wtf it means; maybe stern soldier in my head?) He is asking me if I remember where he is going, what he wants or cares about, I told him I do, but it’s a version from the past I left behind.

    All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day,
    put the pieces back together my way,
    All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day,
    put the pieces back together my way. (2x)

    (Yes, yes, y'all, and ya don't stop, keep on, to the break of dawn) (4x)


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