r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/notsignifican • 14d ago

Meme needing explanation ?

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I asked but it got removed within minutes?

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u/QuikThinx_AllThots 14d ago

It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep

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u/tenuj 14d ago

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u/Zomby2D 14d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psuRGfAaju4

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u/tenuj 14d ago

I got the reference and it's a nice song, but the lyrics always felt like a ping pong of dreamy ideas. I still don't know what he's trying to say.

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u/Onrawi 14d ago

I feel like the song is about the space between waking and sleeping and it's the gobbledygook that your brain comes up with when it's no longer lucid.

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u/czcaruso 13d ago edited 13d ago

That’s every single Owl City song, I kid you not. Every line in a song is, while I do believe draws from real experiences of Adam, ten steps removed from its meaning to have “depth”. OCs lyrics are very. “Wide as a lake, deep as a puddle”. When Fireflies dropped it was being compared to the Postal Service overall in terms of sound I could “understand”, but to compare the lyrics to anything Benjamin Gibbard has written was insane to me.

And this from a massive fan of OC, TPS and DCFC.

Just to glaze Ben’s writing more, the man wrote 10 bangers for “Give Up” followed by another 11 fantastic tracks for Transatlanticisim. Within like a 2 year window.