The Dumb Song

Guys finally a song about ME (by ajr).

“You said with certainty

I may be the dumbest person that you’ve ever seen

You think you’re hurtin’ me

Bet you won’t believe it, but you kinda set me free”

I wonder if being called dumb would set someone free because it gets rid of all these big expectations. With great power comes great responsibility, huh? If someone deems you a genius, surely they expect stuff of you, right? Well if someone deems you an idiot, they expect the opposite: they expect nothing. You are freed from the bounds of their potential expectations. Or think no further than a surgeon. If someone deemed smart enough to medically save another’s life, which is insane expectation.

“You’ve mentioned Adderall

Slip this guy a sedative, he’s bouncin’ off the wall

Honey, it’s no big deal

We’ll get you back to college, you could study somethin’ real”

This is where it gets a little confusing, because it’s hard to understand what’s going on. I suppose that’s just the art of songs, music, and really, it’s just the art of art.

But I like the last line. A lot. It’s very clearly about studying something in college. The “somethin’ real” makes me chuckle. What does he mean by that? Is he making fun of some majors, or just juxtaposing to his own situation? To his own “dumbness”? (Say if he never went to college or never studied anything). And this is where it gets a little confusing because when I say he I suppose I’m referring to the main singer but really it’s a band so it could be anyone from the band.

Either way, I obviously agree. I like studying in college, and studying something “real.” Whether he meant, I’m sure I agree.

“So if that’s how you feel

When we go down

When kingdom come

Don’t look at me, don’t look at me

I’m just too dumb

I’d love to stay

But like you said

Don’t look at me

‘Cause I got nothin’ in my head

Oh, in my head”

When the end of the world comes down, I suppose that will require some answers right. So “don’t ask me, because I’m just too dumb.”

“Too dumb for breakin’ up

I’d do it in person, but I’d probably mess it up

I’ll text you, “That’s enough”

That’s how empty-headed people get through shitty stuff”

The furthering application of being too dumb to do a break-up in person is interesting, right?

“Your world is endin’ soon

Mine’s a little better ‘cause I never watch the news

You make my lunch today

I would do it, but I can’t work the microwave”

I like the two lines. Because the person watches the news, their world is ending.

Isn’t that true?

It’s like a bad exam.

It’s like: out of sight, out of mind.

We make our world better by ignoring the hard stuff, right? (I would say this is not always true, because sometimes you make things a lot worse by ignoring your problems…in terms of life, reflection, growth, relationship problems, but also something physical like bills and credit and debt lol…) But in terms of ignoring bad things we can’t control, make better, or do anything about? Don’t we make our world better by ignoring those?

I relate to this because I also don’t watch the news. I find it very hard and depressing. I suppose I like to live in my own little world. Important news, I’d know it anyway. From the general public or from people around me.

But certain news maybe I am better off without knowing. I know myself, I know when I tried to read/watch news I cared about. I ended up being so depressed and cried. And as far as politics besides things that affect me/that I actually care about (Russia-Ukraine war) aka just politics that are going on within the U.S…I could actually care less about, unless it affects that thing I just talked about. It all seems so dumb anyway. What people do and such. Usually it’s just dumb and disappointing makes me chuckle and makes no difference anyway, doesn’t affect me, is boring and I don’t care about it. I guess I choose to not be disappointed by the politicians making dumb decisions. Just going to make me upset or ironically upset (like laughing at it) for no necessarily good reason. When I want to have hope in them or actually making a change I care about. But they say things. And they never seem to actually do things. So why would I choose to voluntarily disappoint myself?

Side note: This is the 400th blogpost!!!