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Aleksandar Stosic RSS / 16.06.2011. u 22:44

The zombie reference is metaphorical. He's afraid that he'll become a "zombie" in life.

The verses (and a lot of the album) describes these really mundane, everyday rituals of family life and moving on into middle age. The narrator is just going with the flow: doing what is expected of him, not disappointing anyone, reading the script of his movie, keeping his shitty thoughts to himself and only telling his wife about them after she's asleep. It's making him turn into a "zombie" though... he's becoming less enthused about life, he's unable to express himself, going through the motions, becoming a "confident liar," etc.

In the last verse he states all of the anti-zombie things he wants: to be romantic, to believe, to be safe, to continue loving his wife... but he's ultimately afraid he'll "eat her brains". He's afraid that the ritual of everyday life will strip him of his appealing aspects until he's unable to feel emotion (like a zombie) and cause him to do harm to the person he loves and wants the most (eat her brains).

It's a man commentating on the effects that his marriage and middle age are having on him. This could almost be ‘Slipping Husband' from the husband's perspective.
The chorus confuses me though. It sounds as if he may be making reference to other men in his position - ‘We'll leave the silver city'. The ‘silver city' could be interpreted as the "perfect" lifestyle that the narrator's tired of.
Berninger, as always, is extremely self-deprecating although this song unusually contains some justification for his self-pity.

The symbolism of a ‘silver girl' may be reference to his wife and thus, the wives of all men suffering from the dysfunction he describes. The fact that Berninger uses the colour silver may be homage to the bitter feelings he has towards the stereotype of a trophy wife.

He acknowledges his flaws; ‘I'll try to be more romantic' but ultimately blames this dysfunction on the trophy wives who aspire to mediocrity.

Toward the end of the song, the repetition of the line ‘I was afraid I'd eat your brains cos I'm evil' suggests he left his spouse, returning to a self-deprecating persona because of guilt.

I think use of "silver cities" and "silver girls" symbolises the ideal trophy wife and the links this has with an upwardly mobile capitalist dream, with the "silver city" a representative of wealth and power, very similar to the "silvery citibank lights" in Mistaken For Strangers, which seems to portray the same sort of disillusionment with the upwardly mobile corporate lifestyle. This lifestyle seems to place many constraints on the person portrayed in the song, as they keep their "shitty thoughts" to themselves and doesn't tell his wife how he is truly feeling. He also seems to feel guilty for this as he tries not to upset his friends by revealing these toxic sentiments which make him "evil", as he cannot believe in the lifestyle in the same way the others can. There are zombie references and this could relate to mass consumerism and its effect on society, but in this respect it is flipped; instead the person disillusioned with this way of living is the zombie as they fester infectious thoughts through their corrupted "black dreams" of American corporate life.



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4krofnica 4krofnica 23:10 16.06.2011

midllajfkrajses eij?



jedan od Onih? ok.
Aleksandar Stosic Aleksandar Stosic 12:19 17.06.2011

Re: midllajfkrajses eij?

edan od Onih? ok.

video sam nocas sta si stavila, nije jedna od onih nego sam video kasno sinoc, a tek sad sam se ulogovao. A posto znam sta si napisala :), onda da ti i odgovorim. Baringer je zaista frik, cudak, malo me podseca na Curtisa, ima te sucidlne tendencije, if u know what i mean.
gledao sam ih nedavno u dablinu i izasao iz sale posle koncerta umoran i iscedjen kao limun, a u sustini srecan kao malo dete jer nesto tako dobro nisam godinama gledao (mozda band of horses, ok). na kraju, covek je iz jednog hipnotisanog stanja potpunog mirovanja, skocio stage diving i bio nosen nasim rukama po celoj donjoj platformi sale. bilo je nevidjeno i fenomenalno.
O geekovima bolje i da nepricamo a o strasnoj ljubavi jos manje:) Sjajna pesma, ali moj hit je pored conversation 16 i blood buzz
4krofnica 4krofnica 13:41 17.06.2011

Re: midllajfkrajses eij?

:)
ah...mislila sam da cemo da cutimo, pa ko velim da ne remetim.

jeste covek cudak, ali od Like vrste :)

tekstovi su mu prilicno zavijeni, on nerado prica sta je hteo da kaze
da nema tih forumasa ne bih imala pojma koje misli ga gone...

nema veze za komentar ali ovo vrlo rado ponavljam



Rejlem Rejlem 13:57 17.06.2011

Re: midllajfkrajses eij?

Hvala sto si ovo postavio, dobro zvuce.
Ali glas mu je zesci. Verovatno da si u pravu oko toga da je frik.

Pa da stavimo taj bladbaz


PS Ne javljam se na sve ove blogove na temu Mladica, jer mi je muka vise od tog prebrojavanja mrtvih i rasprave o onome o cemu rasprave nema - covek je zlocinac, i tu nema sta da se komentarise ni raspravlja. Al citam i lupam preporuke gde treba

Pozdrav!
Aleksandar Stosic Aleksandar Stosic 20:58 17.06.2011

Re: midllajfkrajses eij?

Rejlem
Hvala sto si ovo postavio, dobro zvuce.
Ali glas mu je zesci. Verovatno da si u pravu oko toga da je frik.

Pa da stavimo taj bladbaz


PS Ne javljam se na sve ove blogove na temu Mladica, jer mi je muka vise od tog prebrojavanja mrtvih i rasprave o onome o cemu rasprave nema - covek je zlocinac, i tu nema sta da se komentarise ni raspravlja. Al citam i lupam preporuke gde treba

Pozdrav!

ni ja se ne javvljam na blogove o mladicu, osim na svoj :)
inace, kad vec pricam sa krofnicom o gikovima, evo kako se zavrsio cert u dablinu na kojem sa prisustvovao:

4krofnica 4krofnica 21:47 17.06.2011

Re: midllajfkrajses eij?

gikovima


sve ste im objasnili.
a ovu rec 'vanderlyle' je izmislio. to mi se posebno dopada.
i sama volim to da radim.


(slusam te kako falsiras)
tiho te hejtujem:)
Aleksandar Stosic Aleksandar Stosic 23:33 17.06.2011

Re: midllajfkrajses eij?

(slusam te kako falsiras)
tiho te hejtujem:)


Leave your home
Change your name
Live alone
Eat your cake
stefan.hauzer stefan.hauzer 14:39 17.06.2011

.

jako dobar album .
Aleksandar Stosic Aleksandar Stosic 15:51 17.06.2011

Re: .

stefan.hauzer
jako dobar album .

nemaju los album
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