Mad world what does it mean
To me it shows no matter how much we try to find meaning in our lives and the world around us there might not be any. We live our lives not realizing the repetitive and endless cycle we are trapped in. Once you understand this the sorrow you fill with becomes heavy and you don't know what reality is. In the same way the lyrics are an incoherent story the world makes no sense and is "mad" so to speak. In the end your left thinking should I continue living or.
To me its talking about how we are all living a in a heartless, stone cold world. The majority of society these days don't take a second look at things that may be improtant to ones life.
If it does't concern them, they don't care and just carry on with their lives. To one who may be desperatly seeking for help and reaching out a hand hoping that someone will pull them up, they find that it gets old, and that everybody looks the same, acts the same and feels the same. Life is a consistant vicious cycle and a constant struggle to find happiness. And once you get trapped in the thought that this world is dark, its hard to imagine it ever changing.
After that point, all colors turn to shades of grey, and the world is mad. In my words this song mad world is basically a hint for people to see that there are problems in life, but if you can't learn to deal with them and take care of them you will eventually lose all thought of life and become mad. But what I'm also seeing is it kinda gives you an idea of personality, like people for who they are not what their characteristics are or by what color or person they are.
Write about your feelings and thoughts about Mad World Know what this song is about? Does it mean anything special hidden between the lines to you?
Share your meaning with community, make it interesting and valuable. Make sure you've read our simple tips Hey! Bright and early for their daily races Going nowhere, going nowhere -The daily races are our lives, busy and hectic. The narrator conveys the meaning that everybody seems to wake up bright and early, as if for a purpose, but in the end they go nowhere, because there is no purpose in life.
And their tears are filling up their glasses No expression, no expression Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow No tomorrow, no tomorrow -The tears fill up their glasses, and you can imagine the meaninglessness and bitterness they must feel, if they are to drink their own tears, as the song indicates. To drink your own tears without expression is very extreme, because sadness indicates that there is meaning in life, and something to be sad about, but no expression, and no tomorrow, indicate that the narrator is indifferent, so worn down as to not even feel sad or angry, but rather he would like to drown his sorrow.
And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm dying Are the best I've ever had - The funnyness he talks about is a very dark emotion, it is a bitter, mocking type of funny that corresponds with sadness.
A sad type of funny. This is the way he feels about his life, because he dreams of dying, the only relief from a meaningless life that contains no hope for feelings of purpose and fulfillment. He doesn't find this hard to take, but what he DOES find hard to take is that people are still willing to live, which he describes as "running in circles.
Children waiting for the day they feel good Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday Made to feel the way that every child should Sit and listen, sit and listen The child stage is the most innocent of humans, and their desires are innocent, they just want to feel good, like the type of happiness a child feels during his birthday.
But also note, that the narrator wants us to consider why we as humans feel the need to celebrate the birth of our lives, which he views in an ironic tone, consistent with the feeling of the song. Even to sit and listen, to try and learn the meaning of life, is in a way, meaningless.
Went to school and I was very nervous No one knew me, no one knew me -Remember, school is a social place, not just a place for learning. It is where humans interact. This is where he is nervous, where he feels isolated, and alone. Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson Look right through me, look right through me -The teacher is a figure of authority and knowledge, as well as wisdom.
Once again the narrator reminds us that we are Insignificant. So what picture does this song portray? A dark, mad world, with no purpose, very nihilistic. Life is insane, because people pretend to live. The themes: Life is meaningless Individuals are insignificant. What is important about this song is that it is not a grown man who is lamenting life, but a young child, who feels he has seen all there is to see, and has realized very early, that life is meaningless.
He is lamenting this realization, and in a way, has given up. Short and Simple: This song is about the hardship and emotional strain of just "going through the motions" in life. It's about how we all just seem to be living lives that aren't particularly interesting and how it is really hard to feel unique at all.
When it talks of childrens birthday being the day they "feel good. It's really sad if you think about it for a while. How people look for the happiness in all the same places in their everyday lives, but are too stubborn to look elsewhere. How people are too selfish, to worry about other people, to busy thinking about advancing themselves, when not thinking about putting there hand down to pull you out, so you too can build your staircase. Most are too stubborn to realize this truth, to busy on focusing on optimism, a false truth.
Once you realize that this world is not as good as you think, that everyone has evil somewhere inside them, you'll know that is world truly is a Mad World. This song is basically about the world of today where routine and structure form requirements of day to day living. It recognizes a person who isn't necessarily suicidal as some people think! Mad world tells us of humans under a remote control they themselves have constructed.
Borrowed my son's car and when I started it this song started playing from a CD he had in. I froze in sadness thinking this is my son. He's been battling depression for over 10 years and he's never been able to describe to me how he feels but now I think I know and now the world has become mad to me because I feel my son is up against something so big that I can't possible help him tho' he's had counselling, therapy and has tried several meds.
Hearing this song has torn me beyond something I can't even describe. The lyrics are written from the viewpoint of a troubled teenager, looking out on a 'mad world' and struggling with thoughts of suicide. Written by roland orzabal, he said, 'lyrically the song is pretty loose.
It throws together a lot of different images to paint a picture without saying anything specific about the world. It came to me when I lived above a pizza restaurant in bath and I could look out onto the centre of the city. Not that bath is very mad - I should have called it 'bourgeois world! A more personal verse focuses on how he's feeling and his growing sense of not fitting in to the world. This may have been drawn from orzabal's own, well documented, troubled childhood which has inspired many of his lyrics.
The most haunting line in the song lets us in on his suicidal thoughts with, 'the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had, ' sending a chilling message. The cover version was used in the soundtrack of the psychological thriller 'donnie darko'. I find that this is a song about a person who has find no joy in life.
Happiness and joy are as much a decision as circumstance. Joy can be found in the everyday existance if one only looks. It is about attitude and deciding that today I am going to be happy. The person is right when he finds no joy because he has not looked for it. It is my prayer and hope that those listening to this song do not make the same mistake. Mad World is a great song. This is a life perception. Song Meaning The speaker is obviously viewing the world as an outsider.
The first and final stanzas mainly discuss how everyone in the world seems so shut out of life itself as they are going through it with "worn out faces" with "no expression. The second stanza is about his feelings for this mad world, which he does not wish to continue being a part of, if you would even consider him a part of it in the first place.
Again, he sees these people just running around in circles, with nothing truly reached in the end. The birthday and school references in the third stanza are examples as to how people are phased out and are no longer "living" and are instead just going through the motions. Every child just waits until they get to feel special for their birthday which is a very dark concept as it implies children do not very often feel as though they are special, or are highly valued, until it is their special day to be.
Just as children do not feel special, the adults do not treat them as special. His teacher would look straight through him, as instead of getting to know his student, he runs through the motions as he would any regular student, rather than creating any bond between him as the teacher and the speaker as a student.
The speaker is very obviously stating that there is something wrong with how people are living and that they are not truly reaching any valuable goals. I believe this could be interpreted in many different ways and this is also why this song is so great; people can form connections to the song with very different interpretations of it. One example that I believe fits best is that the speaker is speaking of the corporate world. Everyone is "racing" to get to the top, be the richest, and earn the most money.
The speaker would perceive this as a mad world as money is completely extrinsic and does not help you achieve anything intrinsically meaningful. We could then see the teacher's lack of enthusiasm to help the speaker as a child as a very fitting topic to include in the lyrics because the teacher only wants money, and does not wish to go out of his way to help unless it will earn him more money. Then we could also acknowledge the bit about children not feeling so special until their birthdays as an effect of the greed of the adults who are too busy working to get money to make their children feel truly special, but attempt to make them feel better by buying them things instead.
I have only presented one possible interpretation that makes sense to me and throughout these comments you may find many more that are just as viable. I believe this is a very beautiful song. I couldn't have said it better myself, well put.
I agree with your interpretations for the most part but i dont see why it has to be a childs view of the world fully grown adults can suffer from this sort of severe depression too if not more so. Also i always thought their was a suicide undertone to this song particularly the lyrics "and i find it kind of funny, find it kind of sad, the dreams in which i'm dying are the best i've ever had " Wabblum on September 02, General Comment I did a presentation for my school about how nobody really lives life anymore and takes for granted all the things that we have and put this song on the video that i made.
No Replies Log in to reply. My Interpretation This song has much meaning to it, it is not just words being jumbled together to make pretty noises unlike most music in this generation. It shows how everyone is made to act like this, do this, and be like this. Feeling special comes only when they have actually made it another year, otherwise they aren't meant to feel much different from the bunch. Although as they get older, that special, butterfly feeling fades away and becomes only a distant memory.
Really, age only becomes a number. Education is strict and must be done a certain way or they are told you will fail, they are just another face among the other students. Teachers only going for the money, not wanting to bond with the ones he is trying to educate. People are going in circles, going to work, going home, going to work. Getting nowhere, only back to where they began.
They are told money is everything. Although if they was nothing, no food, no water, no clothes, just a pile of money, what would it be good for. Everyone is turning on each other just to be number one.
Running and scurrying. Ramming into a wall over and over, expecting a different outcome. Being scared that they will not be like other people, to not be ordinary. Fearing the thought of standing out. People soon forget emotions, not knowing that they are sad, depressed. Yearning for sleep, dreams, where they feel safe and warm. Where they don't have to be like everyone else. Not having to be afraid to speak their mind.
Enlarge in their world, their life. Don't be stuck in the same room forgetting how to use the door. The door to freedom, to true living. But they wouldn't know that feeling, it was drained from them. It is after all, a mad, mad world. TtickTtock on January 15, Link. Good interpretation.
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