The Offspring: You're Gonna Go Far Kid Meaning
You're Gonna Go Far Kid Lyrics
You’re getting better all the time
And turning all against the one
Is an art that’s hard to teach
Another clever word
Sets off an unsuspecting herd
And as you step back into line
A mob jumps to their feet
Now dance,...
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Lord of the Flies. Everything being sung in this song is something you can find in that book. Along with the fact that he even says the title in the song.
If not completely that, the lyrics are about something simmilar to Lord of the Flies and he says the title because he's relating the two situations together. -
Has any one else read "Lord of the Flies"? The meaning of this song is a spin off of that book. Even the interpreted meaning of that book is the abuse of power as well as a comment on humanity in general; adults aren't much more mature than children. What I would like to know though is exactly what particular event they're commenting on. I think that's what they're really trying to do with this song.
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I have to disagree with whole "bullied kid" idea. To me, the song is about a hitman and is told from his boss's or mentor's point of view. Lines like "hit em right between the eyes", "drifting closer in your sights", and "clever alibis" all point to a skillful assassin taking out his target, often with deception and mob control, as seen in the verses. Additionally, some of The Offspring's other songs, like Hammerhead, are also about violence/killing.
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The song and video meanings are completely different. The main guy in the song is a liar and manipulator. The guy in the video abuses a gift he was given for personal gain, but hes not decieving others or lying. Put the lyrics to the video and see if it makes any sense - it doesn't.
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Thank You! Finally, a correct answer! Yes, anonymous is right! It is the abuse of power!
As you can see in the music video, the peasant is poor, no power, nothing, until the goddess gives him a magical guitar.
He goes to the city, finding out that the guitar makes people dance, happy, and not to mention that gives him money.
He then finds a group of ill people, and plays for them, curing them.
The goddess who gave him the guitar, is watching and is pleased until he demands for the woman's expensive necklace.
He then goes to a bouquet for rich people, he wants to enter, but he is shooed away because his appearance.
He then plays for another group of people, gaining more money, enough to buy a suit.
When he is allowed in the bouquet, he plays for them, for their money. The goddess appears, and takes the guitar making it play, and the peasant is now dancing alone, and then sent to hell. The guitar is dropped and turned into leaves.
Also in the song, the lyrics, starts out like this,
Show me how to lie
You’re getting better all the time
And turning all against the one
Is an art that’s hard to teach
Another clever word
Sets off an unsuspecting herd
And as you step back into line
A mob jumps to their feet
That's him gaining his power.
Now dance (I prefer to keep it PG and say 'sucker') dance
Man he never had a chance
And no one even knew
It was really only you
That's in the very beginning when he had nothing.
With a thousand lies
And a good disguise
Hit ‘em right between the eyes
Hit ‘em right between the eyes
When you walk away
Nothing more to say
See the lightning in your eyes
See ‘em running for their lives
Slowly out of line
And drifting closer in your sights
So play it out I’m wide awake
It’s a scene about me
There’s something in your way
And now someone is gonna pay
And if you can’t get what you want
Well it’s all because of me
And right about there is when he starts to take advantage of his power.
At the end of the music video, when the goddess takes away the guitar, is his punishment for abusing his power. He then loses all his power again, and was sent for eternal damnation.
Tada. -
Fools watch the video, he gets a magical guitar and means to use it to cheer people up but gets corrupt and using it for greed. So the godess lady or whatever vanishes him for misusing the guitar did I mention it makes anyone dance.
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I think that it's about a sniper shooting his target.
"You’re getting better all the time
And turning all against the one
Is an art that’s hard to teach"
-As he completes more 'jobs' he gets better, but people don't like him because he's a hired assassin. And being an assassin is "an art that's hard to teach"
"Now dance, f*cker, dance
Man, he never had a chance
And no one even knew
It was really only you"
-"Dance, f*cker, dance" is what the assasin would be saying. 'Dancing' is often used as a term in movies for being shot at. "Man he never had a chance" means that he is new to his job and didn't think that he would do good. "And no one ever knew" means that no one ever found out that it was him.
"And now you steal away
Take him out today
Nice work you did
You’re gonna go far, kid"
-This refers to what he did after his 'kill' and then what his 'boss' tells him.
"With a thousand lies
And a good disguise
Hit ‘em right between the eyes
Hit ‘em right between the eyes
When you walk away
Nothing more to say
See the lightning in your eyes
See ‘em running for their lives"
-The first two lines mean that he had good 'cover'. The repeated line, "Hit 'em right between the eyes", is what the sniper is trying to do. Then he "walk[s] away". "See the lightning in your eyes, see ‘em running for their lives" is about the feeling of accomplishment that the sniper gets for hitting his 'target' and the other people around's reaction.
"Slowly out of line
And drifting closer in your sights
So play it out I’m wide awake
It’s a scene about me
There’s something in your way
And now someone is gonna pay
And if you can’t get what you want
Well it’s all because of me"
-This part is all about the sniper focusing his "sights" on his gun on the 'target' and the rest is what he's thinking.
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It's about manipulation, but it doesn't have to be to get back at a bully. It's a kid who goes through school (or life, or whatever), destroying people in his way by manipulating their friends into hating them. The change in the line "Man he never had a chance" to "Man I never had a chance" shows the kid changed targets and is getting ready to destroy someone else's social life because he doesn't like them.
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I think it's about a kid who's picked on at school by a bully. This bully is the main one who picks on him, but his friends and the wannabe-tough guys follow his lead to earn his approval. But the boy being picked on is holding back, waiting for the perfect time to strike. And strike he does, for then he joins the line of the beaten bully's friends and takes them to his side, and the lyric 'You're gonna go far kid' is in reference to his timing and his so easily turning the bully's friends from his side.
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i think its about a kid being bullied, but he gets his revenge by setting the social circle on him. "And turning all against the one; Is an art that’s hard to teach; Another clever word; Sets off an unsuspecting herd"
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Shit, I thought it was about a spy...doin his job on a bunch of unsuspecting people and ruining a bunch of lives, including some innoscent. (show me how to lie...with a thousand lies, and a good disguise...etc...) ehh,maybe I've been watching too much Burn Notice...
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I think the song is about "The Lord of the Flies" Check the synopsis of that book on wikipedia, but basically, in the book, through manipulation and the evil in human nature, kids end up fighting another until one of the more innocent kid, Piggy, gets smashed right between the eyes with a huge boulder, smashing his head, and killing him.
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