According to Thom Yorke, the song was made to “assert a sexual persona and on the other hand trying desperately to negate it.” This song by Radiohead is about not belonging to the group of “beautiful people” and feeling like a creep when you like someone. When we fail to become the popular, well-loved person in a crowd, we become considered a creep. You’re not going to drag me down with you Lyrics about failure: This is for the losers and the rejects While the ones who are downtrodden might be considered the failures of society, they still have the potential to change the world because of how strong they’ve become. But in this song by Four Year Strong, the losers and rejects are rising up and fighting to be accepted. So I walk myself picking at a chip on my shoulderīack in the 80s and 90s when the popular kids would dominate the social scene, the people with different points of view are the ones who are considered losers. Lyrics about failure: This is a lesson in procrastination.Īnd every single second that I put it off means another lonely night I gotĪnd every time I leave you go and lock the door The band is saying that they’re nearly killing themselves just to create new music, but what can they possibly do when they genuinely can’t think of anything to write? They state that they don’t believe in filler, and that’s why each song needs a lot of work and effort to pull off.
Failure By Design is about the band’s experience in trying to come up with good music to create for their producers. If you want a meta song about what it’s like to become an artist, this is the one. Lyrics about failure: And it’ll happen once again He ends the song by saying that this is all part of growing up. He imagines seeing her with some other guy, and pretending that everything’s okay even if it’s not.
It was written by Mark Hoppus, and it’s about a fictional breakup between him and his girlfriend. What is growing up without a little failure along the way? Dammit is a song that captures how we sometimes just fail at things, and it transforms us. I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me? Eventually, this gave rise to the whole movement on the importance of being unique and different – something taken to the extreme by hipsters of the 2010s. It’s an expression of how people had such low self-esteem when they’re not part of the “in group” of the time. Loser is a self-depreciating song about being a loser in the 90s. If you’re trying to make sense of the lyrics of this song, you’re doing it wrong. Lyrics about failure: I left my baby and I feel so sad He describes his life in jail as he breaks rocks, while singing about robbing banks because he had no money. The song is about a man who goes on a robbery spree and is caught by the police. I Fought the Law was actually written by Sonny Curtis from The Crickets, though it was made popular by the Bobby Fuller Four and The Clash.